Abstract
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.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Critic: Research ethos that seeks to understand the inequalities and the power struggles within societies.
Ethnographic Methods: Techniques used to write ethnography.
Ethnographic Study: Research project developed with the use of ethnographic methods.Latin America: Cultural region understood as all of the countries south of the United States whose inhabitants speak languages of Latin roots (Spanish, Portuguese and French).
The Observatory for the Cybersociety (OCS): Independent organization and association (based in Barcelona, Spain) devoted to the study and research of information and communication technologies.
Ethnographic Study: Research project developed with the use of ethnographic methods.Latin America: Cultural region understood as all of the countries south of the United States whose inhabitants speak languages of Latin roots (Spanish, Portuguese and French).
CMC: Computer Mediated Communication. Communication between people with the use of computers and Internet (usually by connection to programs).
Ethnography: Genre of writing that presents varying degrees of qualitative and quantitative descriptions of human social phenomena, based on fieldwork.
CMC: Computer Mediated Communication. Communication between people with the use of computers and Internet (usually by connection to programs).
Ethnography: Genre of writing that presents varying degrees of qualitative and quantitative descriptions of human social phenomena, based on fieldwork.
Critic: Research ethos that seeks to understand the inequalities and the power struggles within societies.
Ethnographic Methods: Techniques used to write ethnography.
The Observatory for the Cybersociety (OCS): Independent organization and association (based in Barcelona, Spain) devoted to the study and research of information and communication technologies.