Cyberactivism as emergent language in Venezuela. Proposal of documentation and digital preservation using Omeka software

Date18 February 2020
Published date18 February 2020
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-10-2019-0037
Pages78-92
AuthorJohann Enrique Pirela Morillo,Yamely Margarita Almarza Franco,Joel Alhuay-Quispe
Subject MatterLibrary & information science,Librarianship/library management,Library technology,Records management & preservation,Information repositories
Cyberactivism as emergent
language in Venezuela
Proposal of documentation and digital
preservation using Omeka software
Johann Enrique Pirela Morillo and
Yamely Margarita Almarza Franco
Programa de Sistemas de Informaci
on, Bibliotecología y Archivística,
Universidad de La Salle, Bogota, Colombia, and
Joel Alhuay-Quispe
San Ignacio de Loyola University, Lima, Peru
Abstract
Purpose The purpose of this study is to present a conceptual analysis to artistic manifestation
represented throughgraphic and multimedia pieces that are available in social media networks as document-
speeches in relation to protests in Venezuela during April-July, 2017. Also, this paper proposes the
implementation of digital documentation tool that allows retrieval, organization, systematization and
preservationof visual contents.
Design/methodology/approach Semiotic analysis based on 44 artistic pieces (images and videos)
posted on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube to protest in Venezuela against the government of Nicolás
Maduro in 2017. The authors dened a metadata group for content creation of multimedia and testing
information retrieval fromgeneral data, textual contents, le formats and semiotic description using Omeka
software.
Findings The digital documentation of artivism proposed has the potential to sustain over time as
documentslikely to be studied. It also constitutes an important analysisand a historicalreconstruction, which
must be takeninto consideration to conduct research in the futurepolitical and social process of Venezuela.
Social implications Cyber-artivism, a concept related to online activism, is conceived as an artistic
expression mediatedby technologies and social media emerging in the context of social environments witha
politicaldemographiccharacter.
Originality/value Digital preservation of multimedia contents by their semiotic and historic value as
artisticcyber-activism.
Keywords Digital documentation, Artivism, Cyberactivism, Emerging languages,
Software repository, Venezuela
Paper type Research paper
1. Introduction
The political and socioeconomic situation that is living in Venezuela during the last four
years, which have caused a turmoil since 2017, have led to strong protests and social
movements as expression mechanisms of social dissatisfaction. An increasing climate of
disputes motivated by the intensication of the economic crisis, the increase of crime
indexes and the constant actions related to the systematic violationof human rights by the
security of the state and institutions attachedto Chavism or the Bolivarian Revolution have
emerged since the riseto power of Nicolás Maduro (Said-Hung and Valencia-Cobos, 2017).
DLP
36,1
78
Received3 October 2019
Revised7 January 2020
Accepted13 January 2020
DigitalLibrary Perspectives
Vol.36 No. 1, 2020
pp. 78-92
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DOI 10.1108/DLP-10-2019-0037
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