La Rosa Pinedo, Amaro2021-05-262021-05-262014http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11955/789Indexado en ScopusEl texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Institucional UNIFE. Deberá acceder por el DOI ó URL de la casa editorial externa.Public Administration and Information Technology; Vol. 13 (2014); pp. 35-47Undoubtedly, the Internet has a multilevel impact on the everyday life of the humankind. In the age of web 2.0, social media have proven to be an essential tool for social movements; to spread their ideas, gain followers and go into action, showing to the world testimonies, pictures, and videos in real time. Using updated research evidence and diverse approaches, this study focuses on the social media role in nine social protests of the twenty-first century that are now part of the history and allowed important conclusions for the scientific and practical understanding of this issue. Social network participation is not isolated from the countries’ characteristics and the media. For this reason, social, political, and communicational factors that contextualize these cases are presented, developing some theoretical models.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Redes socialesMovimiento socialinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookParthttps://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.09.02https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04666-2_3https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962546432&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-319-04666-2_3&partnerID=40&md5=fd0050792f532a23e824689c36494103