Austerity History through Sociological Comics: A guide to social media and networks against Austeritocracy for use by all generations

The Story Plot: This book tells a story based on sources that document a real social process occurred recently: Events and accounts during struggles against European austerity measures. They were developed by common citizens, through 3 modes of communication articulated with one another, and mixed/hybridized in a sort of new medium named hybrimedia: - Co-presence communication (urban murals, graffiti, political demonstrations); - Mass media communication (newspapers, television); - Digital communication (social networks, like Facebook). Genre: Sociological Comics. The 'Sociological Comics series' includes books where social questions are discussed through comics. This is the 1st issue. Social problems are studied here through a sociological research using visual and text arguments within comics frames. - Firstly, questions are raised and hypotheses are formulated. - Secondly, data is collected through several sources: photos; digitized or written texts, etc. - Thirdly, this gathered content is analyzed and interpreted. - Finally, hypotheses are tested and demonstrated along the book.