Environmental crisis and climate change: social mobilization and digital activism arisen from territorial identities

The aim of this paper is based on a collective hub of research, theoretical, empirical and methodological debate. It has the aim of analysing diverse forms, experiences and practices of digital activism and socio-environmental movements, their relations with the territories and their heterogeneous claims and contestations in relation to politics and effects of the environmental crisis and climate change. Social networks are shaping relations and socio-economic processes through the automatic production of space that generates new spatialities (Kitchin, Dodge, 2011) called cyberplaces (Meek, 2012). In fact, digital media are an ever-increasing presence in social movements, political participation and civic engagement. Significant to these debates, digital media and services are becoming increasingly location-based, with more applications providing geographical interfaces and supporting locational data (Elwood, Leszczynski, 2013). Since geography information technologies and data available to the public increasingly permeate social movements, bottom-up organizations, citizen groups and the local society, the understanding of different forms of activisms and civic commitment generated by these new spatial media (Crampton, 2009) and the impact produced on affected places is of paramount importance.