Techno-politics for emancipation and war: collective action and networked counter-insurgency

Contentious collective action has been transformed in the last three decodes. Social movements, in their great diversity, have promoted innovative and unexpected ways of using Information and Communication Technologies. Each wave of communicative power oriented to emancipatory action, that is, of technopolitics for collective self-determination and deliberation. has been followed by another of corporate interference and control, that is, of technopolitics that seaks the interest of powerfull instances and capital. Contrasting the hacktivist tactics of the connected multitudes with the proliferation of networked marketing and counterinsurgency strategies implies reflecting on means and ends in the era of digital and data colonialism.