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La identidad Neozapatista como proceso comunicativo
2018
International audience; This article studies the speech and the political action of the Zapatista movement,considering both as a communicative practice that is articulated among a plurality of uses and“cultural matrices” (Martín Barbero, 1987) in what has constituted the Neozapatista social subject.Firstly, the discursive aspects of the Zapatista statements are reviewed, with their narrativestrategies, key representations and conditions of reproduction. Secondly, an emphasis is made onthe systematic study of its political-media trajectory throughout its already long history, analyzingthe conventions, the encounters and other Zapatista actions and political initiatives. The resultsoffer an o…
A cultural analysis of the visual signs in the Zapatistas websites
2012
A political movement initiated in Mexico known as Zapatism is analysed through the visual objects displayed in their websites on the Internet. The objective is to make a cultural analysis and interpretation of the visual representation of Zapatistas websites, to expose their visual identity through the most salient visual signs and their corresponding cultural meanings. The analytical method introduced in this study is divided in three major aims: consolidating a pool of images retrieved from Zapatistas websites, finding patterns of visual elements within these images, and providing an interpretation for the visual signs emerging from such patterns. In the analysis, three images emerged as …