Influência das TIC na dinâmica cultural e política de comunidades / Influence of the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) on the cultural and political development of communities

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

By means of bibliographical research and analysis of practical experience accounts, this work deals with the emergence of the information and communication technologies’ diffusion and the establishment of new paradigms for human organizations and activities. The work points out that the classical concept of community, which determines the groups formed by individuals within the same physical territory and linked by bonds of sociability and by common feelings and interests, has been remodeled. This phenomenon seems to take place especially under the influence of the acceleration of communicational processes of share of the codes belonging to the cultural patrimonies characteristic of communities which can, nowadays, occur inside or outside a common physical territory or even in virtual environments, which broadens the group’s reach and geographical fragmentation and enables the existence of local, widened and virtual communities. At the same time, this work discusses that the problem of social exclusion shows that the same set of tools and technological options which may be used for group promotion and cohesion, may result in increased opportunity discrepancy and inequality between included and excluded community members. In this direction, the work states that issues regarding digital inclusion and the generation of network organization culture are directly connected to the effective implementation of the democracy, citizenship and popular sovereignty trinomial, and to the conquest and maintenance of rights which ensure human promotion and community autonomy. While discussing the ICT and the necessity for digital inclusion, the work seeks to present an ideal classification for communities, according to their level of involvement and deepening into knowledge, use and manipulation of those for their development. The work concludes that an option is necessary for established actions as integrated and universalizing public policies which develop from the active and constant participation of the communities so that digital inclusion may promote social inclusion and establish itself as a right for the participative construction of the ubiquitous, critical and solidary path for the reception and transmission of information and knowledge among communities.

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ciberespaço comunidades digital inclusion cyberspace communities tecnologias da informação e comunicação cultural patrimony patrimônio cultural information and communication technologies inclusão digital

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