Ismael Peña-López presented on casual politics, slacktivism, emergent social movements, and pattern recognition at the Digital Interventions Symposium in Barcelona on June 7, 2013. He discussed how ICTs and the internet have enabled new forms of political participation beyond traditional institutions, including "feet voting", extra-representative engagement, and para-institutions. Peña-López also examined slacktivism, virtual political communities, cyberactivism, and how emergent systems and big data can provide insight into political decision-making and ideologies. He argued that slacktivism should be viewed as a form of casual or informal politics within social movements rather than dismissed,

1. Casual politics:
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Ismael Peña-López
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3. Voting with one s feet
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- Feet voting(Tiebout, 1956).
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- New ways of producing and participating (Benkler,
2006; Noveck, 2005).
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4. Politics on/and Internet
- SES determines participation (Tichenor et al., 1970;
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Robles Morales, 2012).
- More Internet, more information, more participation
(Borge et al., 2012; Horrigan, 2004).
- More Internet, critical/extra-representative participation
(Christensen 2011; Cantijoch 2009)
Cantijoch, 2009).
- New political spaces (Lefebvre, 1991; Martínez Roldán,
2011; Castells, 2009, 2012; Echeverría, 1999).

5. Empowerment and para-institutions
- More efficacy of internal politics (Colombo et al., 2012).
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- Leetocracy, Goverati, hard cores and para-institutions
(Breindl & Gustafsson, 2011; Breindl, 2012; Peña-López,
2011; Peña-López et al., 2013).
- New relationships with media and communication
(Kelly, 2008).
(Kelly 2008)
extra-representative
- Silent democracy, extra representative democracy
(Font et al., 2012; Hibbing & Theiss-Morse, 2002).

6. Participation, cyberactivism
Participation cyberactivism, slacktivism
- Offline ¿vs.? online engagement (Smith, 2013; Rainie et
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- Activism 2.0 & hacktivism (Fernández-Prados, 2012).
- Vi t l political communities and open communities
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(Fuster & Subirats, 2012; Kelly, 2008).
- Mobilization, reinforcement and transformation (Norris,
2001; Peña-López et al., 2013).
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- Slacktivism & lurkers (Morozov, 2011; Nonneke &
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Preece, 2003; Ogilvy et al., 2011).

7. Casual politics
- New political actions (De Marco & Robles Morales,
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- Silent democracy, process-oriented democracy
(Hibbing & Theiss-Morse, 2002; Font et al., 2012).
- “Exit” as “voice” (Hirschman, 1970).
- From futility to big data (Hirschman, 1991).

8. Emergent systems pattern recognition
systems,
- Emergent systems and decision-making grounded on
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data (Johnson, 2001; Esty & Rushing, 2007).
- A comprehensive vision (Rieder, 2012).
- Vi lit after critical mass and it characterization
Virality ft
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(Watts & Dodds, 2007; Kosinski et al., 2013).
- From new extra-representative engagement to effective
choice (Peña-López, 2013; Welzel et al., 2003).
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9. Vindicating slacktivism
- Slacktivism as a political iceberg.
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- Slacktivism from decision-making.
- Extra-representative politics and para-institutions.
- Casual politics or informal politics in the perifery of
social movements
movements.
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- Monitoring, pattern recognition, inference of ideologies
and tacit proposals, real-time politics.

10. ICT4D v2.0
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- e-Readiness, digital divide
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- e-Inclusion and access: insourcing telecentres
- ICT and learning: personal learning environments,
translearning
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- e-empowerment & e-governance: extra-representative
engagement and para-institutions

11. How?
- sociology: theoretical modelling
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- ethnography: making sense of ICTs, appropriation
- psychology: interventions in time series (ARIMA, etc.)
- economics: quantitative approach & causality: SEM,
factor analysis cluster analysis logit/probit analyses
analysis,
analysis,

12. i2TIC (http://i2tic net/en/research/)
(http://i2tic.net/en/research/)
- ICTs, knowledge, productivity, growth and
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ICTs, knowledge, people and work
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ICTs, knowledge and territorial competitive advantage
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ICTs, knowledge, networks and complexity

13. Barcelona,
Barcelona June 7 2013 Digital Interventions Symposium
7, 2013.
Symposium.
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