“Temporalidades emaranhadas”: desafios metodológicos da dinâmica dos protestos em rede de 2013 no Brasil

• Main Authors: Regina Helena Alves da Silva, Paula Ziviani
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra 2018-12-01
• Series: Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais
• Subjects: Brazil; media; social protest; urban space
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rccs/8126

The social protests that followed Brazil’s being selected to host the 2014 World Cup challenged the populace’s ability to understand it all. The events of June 2013 – known as “June Days” [Jornadas de Junho] – opened a totally new world of possibilities, which extended from the Internet to the streets and back. These Jornadas were a core-event of various issues that melded together during a given time interval. The aim of this article is to reflect on the dynamics, the time, and the temporalities which burst forth in this context. It is intended to address the interaction of political action with technologies, digital networks and the communication media. That is, discuss and problematize the dynamics of articulation between public urban spaces and inter media networks in the recent events of Brazilian political mobilization.