Aracaju : cidade humana, inteligente e criativa para quem?

• Ano de defesa: 2021
• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Guilherme Ricardo Oliveira
• Orientador(a): Flexor, Carina Ochi
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Comunicação
• Palavras-chave em Português: Comunicação de massa; Qualidade de vida; Planejamento estratégico; Tecnologias da informação e comunicação (TICs); Cidades inteligentes; Controle; Teoria Crítica
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs); Smart cities; Control; Critical theory
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/14771

Faced with the emergence of solutions to the global challenges of contemporary cities, smart cities, based on the incorporation of information and communication technologies (ICT's), have been consolidated on the agenda of public administrations as a ready solution to structural and emerging problems that affect the various spheres of the urban ecosystem, being strongly promoted by corporate capital, mainly from transnational companies. Like other locations around the world, the city of Aracaju has been inserted in this context, notably since the administration of Mayor Edvaldo Nogueira (2017-2024), who even assumes as one of the objectives of its Strategic Planning “to make Aracaju a human, intelligent and creative city”. If, on the one hand, the smartization of the city and the rhetoric of smart cities anchored in ICT's are based on the argument for improving urban management and a supposed guarantee of quality of life, on the other, it has raised a series of questions about how these processes impact the citizen, revealing and/or reinforcing social asymmetries based on algorithmic governmentality and vigilance, reinforcing control and power dynamics. So, from the problem that guided the research - smart for whom? -, the investigation aimed to map the projects put into practice by the Municipality of Aracaju, in order to identify to what extent the intelligence project of Aracaju, based on the adopted technologies, has been reverberating on the local social fabric, focusing on observe the impacts on citizens. With a deductive approach and qualitative exploratory-descriptive character, the investigation was developed from the review of specialized literature, making use of an extensive documental survey and development of semi structured interviews, in order to obtain broader information about the intelligence project of the capital of Sergipe. In addition to distinguished authors in the fields of digital culture and, in particular, those interested in the topic of smart cities, the analyzes were woven in the light of the theoretical framework proposed by Andrew Feenberg (2003) in the field of philosophy of technology, as it was able to to support the criticism of the appropriation of technological resources in the social fabric, thus contributing to the reflections woven here. The results point to the validation of the initial assumption that the intelligence program in the city of Aracaju has been increasing social asymmetries, revealing a management vision based on the instrumentalist/substantivist perspective of the use of technologies that impact Aracaju.