Interações telemáticas: estudo sobre jovens internautas de Belo Horizonte

• Ano de defesa: 2000
• Autor(a) principal: Maria Beatriz Almeida Sathler Bretas
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Informática; Ciência da informação; Internet; Adolescentes Aspectos sociais; Internet (Redes de computação); Informática Aspectos sociais
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/EARM-74HPK5

This study focuses on the communicative processes and demands of information, by adolescents from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, aiming at subsidizing public politics for the democratization in the cyberspace. The work, of qualitative nature, looked for theoretical-methodological contributions in several areas of the knowledge, such as sociology and history, in the understanding of the social interactions. Having the context as reference for sense production, transformations were related to changes of scientific paradigms; to transferences of the public space to the media field and to presentation of the planetary picture of human development, in which Internet appears as paradoxical factor of inclusion and exclusion of individuals. Therefore, through the focus in the relationship between the school and the telematic technologies, the need of educational processes that democratize the cultural production is discussed. The virtual space is examined in analogy with the urban territory, identifying sociability places, to establish parameters and categories of classification of physical and virtual places frequented in theteenagers everyday life. The study also reviewed the rhetoric of the electronic speeches in the constitution of a new language of Internet. The empirical research, developed between 1996 and 1999, was constituted by two phases: the first was constituted of the search, collection and analysis of Internets personal pages of 30 adolescents from Belo Horizonte; the second fase involved face to face focal groups, in which 42 adolescents participated. These were users of Internet and students in elementary schools and high schools of the city. The analysis of the results, under the light of the theoretical studies, identified in that social segment a tacit knowledge about computer usage; different forms of appropriation of the technology and their objectives of social interaction in the use of Internet, in addition to other verifications.