The peasant movement in Paraguay experiences a broad support from various societal actors that themselves may have formalized their networks, but from a holistic viewpoint on the movement as a whole, the networking is of a very informal nature, spread via mouth, sms and, often private, social media accounts. The organizational networks inside the FNC continuously interact and try to coordinate the movements together with unassociated members, a representative stated in 2016(Pertoft 2017: Interview 3).
The FNC’s organization thus seems to be a child of its time. Poell and van Dijck discuss how the use of social media transforms the organization and communication of social movements from structured with a head persons/leaders to more unstructured mass user activity enabled by the social media platforms(Poell and van Dijck 2018: 1). While some scholars find that social media platforms enable more bottom-up, distributed forms of protest mobilization, organization and communication, others stress there are simply new forms of hierarchy and leadership in the social media age(Poell and van Dijck 2018: 3).
