The new media and protest marches: cases in Brazil and Egypt

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the contribution of new media, the communicational interaction and the relation between the protest demonstrations against the decision of Egypt’s President, Hosni Mubarak, of controlling the internet in his country, and the protest marches of families and friends of victims of the urban violence in Brazil. To achieve this aim, images of three cases that occurred in Brazilian big cities are objects of study, in which the protesters were showing off photos of the absent person printed in T-shirts, and images of protesters against the policy of internet control adopted by the Egyptian President.