The revival of Communication for Social Change: redefining the discipline and practice after the 'Arab Spring'

Abstract

In all world, we have experienced a resurgence of practices multilateral communication for social change, a multitude of actions in which voice, citizenship and the collective has been at the center stage as essential values, principles and practices. Thus, this article aims to analyze the changes resulting from this conceptual context of change, because it raises a number of questions. Using a bibliographic research, we show that, when considering the tactics of citizens in communicative dynamics of the network society, institutions can develop a sensitivity in order to view citizens as agents of social transformation.

Social movements; Communication for Development (ComDev); Communication for social change; New digital media; Arab Spring