Resistances 2.0: New Communication and Information Practices for Challenging Mining Extraction in Colombia

Abstract

The last two decades have become a very good field for foreign direct investment in Colombia (IED), mainly in natural resources from which the mining extractions have been outstanding. However, due to the characteristic of the country in cultural, hydric, and biodiversity richness, there has appeared a resistance of communities belonging to ethnic groups, peasants, and urban people, stating “no to mining, for the defense of live, territories and common goods.” This article refers to the incidence of the use of communicative collaboration platforms, related to social web, which articulate in the framework of alternative mediations, whose purpose is to active communicative networks helping the fights understood as resistances, focused on stopping the ig mining, installed on the base of policies and norms which introduce themselves in territories impacting the life of diverse population on which this extraction projects fall.