Times have been tough for the sector of arts and culture throughout the current century in Portugal. Some years ago, it was the financial crisis and the troika's intervention. Now, with the pandemic. Inclusively, this is the sector where we found the highest levels of precariousness. With the pandemic, the weak working conditions, labour rights, and social protection of these workers became evident (Quintela e Rodrigues, 2020; Borges, 2020;). In this context, the Internet gained prominence for the dissemination and sharing of artistic contents, as an act of collective solidarity, but also as a field of reflection, struggle and claims on the Revision of the Arts Support Model, the Statute of Professionals in the Cultural Field and the need of a Social Protection System. This communication aims to understand how all the actors in the sector – classical unions, which have undergone a major process of restructuration in recent years, other organisations, like professional associations and co-ops, and social movements – use Facebook according to four axes: the objective(s) that underlie this Internet presence; if it is a way to foster (new) forms of social participation and networked unionism (Marques Alves and Levezinho, 2014); if there is an increasingly articulated cooperation between the different actors; and if this presence explores the potential of the web 2.0 (O'Reilly, 2005) as a way to reach the traditional media space and recover the “old” forms of struggle and social mobilisation. For these purposes, we analysed their publications in this social media in the last year.

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Ação Coletiva,Cultura,Social Media

• Sociology - Social Sciences
• Media and Communications - Social Sciences