Enciclopedia girasol virtual9/22/2023 In this chapter we reflect upon some of the ways in which mobile media contributes to inscribing intimacy as part of new forms of affective practices including sharing, witnessing and attunement. We suggest three different time scales as short-term (emergence of movements), mid-term (development of movements), and long-term (how the movements continue or survive through time) to be considered in the study of relationship between social media and social change. We propose the utilization of the two concepts of “durability” and “mobility”, from ANT literature, to better understand the potential of online social networking technologies for social change. The present study reports on preliminary findings examining the use of Facebook among Iranians, applying the aforementioned relational sociology perspective based on Actor-Network Theory (ANT). New technical developments create opportunities to change the social order and in the meantime technologies are transformed and are adapted differently by humans. From this perspective, one cannot define unidirectional causal relationships between the social and the technical. This study argues that the relationship between the new ICTs and social movements should be done from a socio-technical perspective.
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