We want to know: the field of social movement and technology studies
This research seeks to understand how the field of social movement studies has reflected on the relationships between the processes and practices of collective action and technologies, especially computer technologies. For this, a mapping and analysis of the theses and dissertations produced between the years 2000 and 2020 in Brazil was produced, through bibliometric analyzes and interpretative reading of the 148 researches defended in this period that have these relationships as their object. The results found seek to consolidate the views of researchers in this field about technologies and their effects on society and categorized them as techno-optimistic and techno-critical. Their understandings of the relationship between the collective action of social movements and the use and effects of technologies are also analyzed, categorized by the relations of appropriation, genesis and production and transformation of and from technologies. This thesis integrates the field of bibliographic research and makes a systematic dive into the productions of these theses and dissertations to build theoretical syntheses and understand the dialogic relationship between collective action and technologies, that is, how technological changes transform the practices of social movements, and the way in which social movements appropriate, originate or even transform technologies in their collective struggle processes.