According to Ronald Inglehart, cultural values are associated with economic and societal development, varying according to the level of satisfaction of basic needs. In light with this standpoint, societies and individuals in which basic needs have been met move on to focus on satisfying other ones, closer to civilizational values and not just survival.
Published in Chapter:
Anything New Under the Sun?: Social Movements and Virtual Social Networks in Comparative Perspective
Pedro Pereira Neto (University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal) and Claudia Lamy (University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0377-5.ch019
Abstract
The most recent technologies of production, transmission, and access to information have made it possible, under appropriate conditions, to change the visibility of national and international concerns, as well as the protest movements many helped stimulate. Different countries have been faced with a multiplicity of movements articulated online that surpass virtual world barriers and (re) assume presence on the streets. In this chapter, drawing from several examples with different claim bases, authors discuss virtual social networks' role in political participation. However, as it happens in so many initiatives in this field, this is not affirmed from an underestimation of the role of Traditional Means of Communication or that of the trenches in the access and use of digital means.