Communicators’ practices of social movements that operate in the digital environment: empirical explorations in a research construction process

Abstract

The paper reports the exploration research movements made in the construction of a research that investigates the practices of Curitiba (PR) social movements communicators using the digital environment and reflects about it. The text examines the methodological processes of realization of empirical explorations, the main leads and findings obtained, and their splits for the research construction at issue. The results indicate relations between communicators’ practices and the proposals and actions of the movements, with the trajectories of militancy, training and media consumption of communicators.

Keywords: social movements, communicator, communicative citizenship.