Review of Journalism and Mass Communication June 2020, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1-8 ISSN: 2333-5742(Print), 2333-5734 (Online) Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. Published by American Research Institute for Policy Development DOI: 10.15640/rjmc.v8n1a1 URL: https://doi.org/10.15640/rjmc.v8n1a1 Digital Mutation, a Result of Motivation and Resilience. Stolen Babies in Catalunya Carolina Escudero 1 , PhD Abstract This paper bridges the concepts of digital literacy and digital inclusion, and introduces digital mutation following an examination of 20 families (older adults) from the Stolen Babies organization in Catalonia, looking for their stolen babies and advocating for social justice. The aim of this paper is to investigate the extent to which digital technologies offer new opportunities to improve people‟s social lives, transcending barriers and experiencing, in this particular case, a digital mutation. The interaction between factors of social and cultural differentiation for this population gives rise to specific kinds of choices and life changes. This exploratory study argues that digital mutation responds to the interaction of this population‟s social factors and digital experiences by combining new social experience / new digital actions and is framed within two parallels: the motivation experienced as a group which makes them transcend barriers and consequently they put digital literacy into practice; the second parallel is between resilience -that empowers them, gives them confidence- also represented as a digital inclusion. The sum of both parallels are the factors that predefine in this population a digital mutation. Keywords: Digital inclusion, Digital Literacy, Digital Mutation, Stolen babies, Resilience, Spain. 1. Introduction Media campaign activism and human rights advocacy within media platforms illustrate how digital inclusion opens up new possibilities of study, being in this case its interconnection with motivation and a resilient process (for trauma restoration) considered to be steps prior to digital mutation.In this sense, scholars such as van Deursen, van Dijk and Klooster argue that the main causes for Internet users‟ choice of activity types are motivations and positions in society (2014; p.260). The theft of babies in Spain (1940-1999) has been systematic (medical doctors, nurses, Catholic priests and nuns) and based on the concept of eugenics by Doctor Antonio Vallejo Nágera used, during the period of Franco, as an argument for the appropriation of descent. After the dictatorship, in 1975, these practices had an economic motivation. For five decades, some 300,000 babies were stolen in Spain. In this sense, “Te Estamos Buscando” (We Are Looking for You), known as the TEB media campaign(Escudero, 2017, 2018), was based on group dynamics to reinforce resilience and introduce the topic into Spanish society, by empowering the families‟ voices and focusing on the importance of sharing the traumatic experience as part of the process of restoration, as Herman suggests: Sharing the traumatic experience with others is a precondition for the restitution of a sense of a meaningful world (...) The response of the community has a powerful influence on the ultimate resolution of the trauma. Restoration of the breach between the traumatized person and the community depends, first, upon public acknowledgment of the traumatic event and, second, upon some form of community action (1992; p.70). Investigations into the thefts of babies began to take shape in 2010, and in 2011 various organizations of families were created to look for their children throughout Spain. The resilience workshops were held in Catalonia and were for the members of the SOSBRC organizations, from which two campaigns arose in which members of other organizations of stolen babies participated: Andalusia, the Basque Country, Pamplona, Madrid (2017). 1 University of Missouri, School of Journalism. Address: Calle Avila 48, 3rd floor. Barcelona (08005) Email address:escuderoc@missouri.edu Telephone: 0034 666236227