The powerful force of social movements: since the Empire until the formation through virtual social networks in Brazil today

Abstract

This work is a bibliografic search result on the social movements´ formation history , its concept, and nowadays how that occur in Brazil through virtual social networks, their conceiving and as social actors interaction each other happen through these networks and condone directing to the streets to vindicate social rights, which unserved raise struggles athwart public demonstrations. This paper main purpose is to cognise and perceive how these Brazilian social movements are composed from the virtual social networks, their origin, aspects and outspreaded. The result granted to this research is under the social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Instagram and Youtube, people in real time can articulate and compound a social movement and manage a crowd to the streets for their fight for social rights. The search comes from renowned authors´ and their theoretical references articles, beyond: thesis, essays and collected texts from the Internet, related to the subject-matter.