Subjetividad política en la comunicación digital interactiva

Abstract

The subjectivity concept has taken a relevant role in the public as well as in the private fields, generating great analysis interest for academic communities from the human and social science areas. Besides, we are currently facing a new digitalization process and its greatest impact is present in the sociocultural activities. This double process has become a powerful and strategic tool when convening and organizing new subjectivities to advance on political resistance projects. In this context, the fact that motivates this research project is focused on an event that happened on September 16th of 2015 in Bogota. The Carlos Angulo case, who was responsible for organizing a protest against the police when he was stopped for inspection, using the expression “Negro, una requisa (Black, an inspection)”; what was an outrage for Carlos. For that reason, a series of occurrences were presented, in which Carlos Angulo faced the police reproaching them for such a treat. The discussion was recorded by a passer-by an it was then posted on Facebook, where it became viral in a few minutes and then used by the social media. The question that leads this research project is: which political subjectivity is set in Carlos Angulo in the context of a discrimination situation in Bogota’s public space and its relation with the positions of the audiences in the interactive digital communication? The corpus of analysis is composed of three interviews and twenty analyzed platforms using narrative analysis tools, sociolinguistic analysis and virtual ethnography. The results suggest that corporality is the first battle field for excluded subjects in regards to their ethnic groups. The black category is performative in terms if power, even more when a narrative transmedia is also considered a case of narrative crossmedia. It is concluded then that unquestionably, a political subjectivity is a dialectic construction.