What is The Observatory for the Cybersociety (OCS)

The objective of this chapter is to present a general and retrospective panorama of the CMC studies that have been done in Spain and Latin America from a critic point of view. It is divided in three blocks that show a general description of these studies, its particularities and the principal authors in Spain and Latin America. The chapter establishes a general and introductory map to the CMC studies in Ibero-America and finishes with a reflection regarding its possibilities in the future. Being Internet in general, and CMC specifically world order phenomena, the present text aims to be a contribution on the connection of the studies written in Spanish and Portuguese and those in English.