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Este trabajo aborda el análisis del movimiento feminista recientemente generado en México (2019-2020), protagonizado inicialmente por mujeres jóvenes en el interior de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, teniendo como núcleo central de sus demandas la denuncia y el alto a la violencia contra las mujeres. En la segunda mitad de 2019, este movimiento realizó numerosas movilizaciones y llevaron al paro a varias escuelas universitarias; y salieron a las calles, convocando a colectivos y actores/as sociales muy diversos. Se trata de un movimiento "de nuevo tipo": con un/a actor/a protagónico/a peculiar, diversificado y, en muchos sentidos, diferente a los movimientos feministas anteriores, sin un liderazgo específico y unificado, y que se ha desplegado con un lenguaje "propio", directo y confrontativo, recurriendo incluso al uso de la violencia como medio de "comunicar y sacudir". Es un movimiento que ha conseguido impactar a la opinión pública, y otros logros significativos, como llamar la atención de las autoridades y generar ciertos cambios institucionales y normativos.

Since the beginning of the modern age, studies of ongoing transformations of social life, human sociality, and social relations and institutions have been at the forefront of social theory, alongside changes in politics, culture, and economy and links between all of the above. In the twenty-first century, the speed at which these transformations have been occurring has accelerated precipitously, and it is impossible to predict what human civilization will look and exist like in a few decades. The essays included in this volume illuminate mediations of the individual-society relationship from a variety of angles, both explicitly and implicitly. They highlight the need to consider the consequences of choices made by collective decision-makers, politicians and leaders of organizations; as well as from processes that sustain the functioning and stability of individual nation-states and global society, for better or worse, and to varying degrees. They represent diverse traditions of social theorizing, including sociological and critical theory, analytically as well as normatively oriented theory, and examine the impact of transformations on several dimensions of societal life today.

This paper examines the influence of social media on political participation in American social movements, focusing on the cases of the Occupy and Tea Party movements during their heyday in the period from 2009 to 2012 as a framework for analysis. Users of these social networks have access to instantaneous information dissemination, broad new political networks, and a wealth of radical thought; but also can be diverted from real-world participation by the appeal of low-cost online activism. Using a foundation of strong-tie/weak-tie activism theory, demographics surveys, and media coverage this paper argues that social media has reshaped the process by which certain privileged demographic subgroups are drawn to participate in political social movements, and thereby suggests possible preconditions to convert social media activism into real-world participation.

Salem Press' monumental Great Events from History series spans human history from ancient times to the present, worldwide. This new three-volume set continues Salem's award-winning coverage into the twenty-first century, providing thoughtful, detailed essays on major events between 2000 and 2016. The first sixteen years of the twenty-first century have seen tumultuous and life-changing events- terror, wars, natural disasters, as well as social and political events that will render the world forever changed. This text documents it all-the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, natural disasters around the globe, the election of the first African-American President. Plus, important social and cultural developments, including the rise of digital and social media, as well as breakthroughs in science and medicine