Self-management on the net: the cyberactivism of cultural centers in the City of Buenos Aires.

Abstract

This work focuses on the cyberactivism of a social movement that demands a law of cultural centers in the City of Buenos Aires that regulates their activity granting rights and responsibilities to these spaces. Likewise, said movement protests for the multiple closing to such centers on the part of the oficial politics. In the City of Buenos Aires there exist about 300 of the above mentioned spaces in diferent neighborhoods that use such an option like resistance. Methodologically, we have proceded realizing fieldwork from an ethnographic perspective and also through a tracking of the social network Facebook. We have observed the assemblies in which the managers of the cultural centers took part, from July, 2014 until the middle of 2016. We followed the cyberactivism in which we glimpsed the spread of information about the closing of cultural centers, and the manifestations organized in front of the Buenos Aires legislature as form of protest by previously referred means. Certain websites belonging to this movement were explored carrying an analytical reading of the images and texts there expressed.