Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
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c i t i z e n s h i p a n d d i g i t a l n e t w o r k s<br />
management, which considers factors such as accessibility and interoperability.<br />
In this same document, Melhorando o Acesso ao Governo com o Melhor Uso <strong>da</strong><br />
Web, it is said that: “The current Web technology enables governments to share with<br />
the public a broad variety of information in an unlimited amount, according to<br />
the search. The technology is also available to allow the citizens to bring the questions<br />
concerning them to the attention of the local, regional and national government.<br />
However, exploring these possibilities within the governmental systems is a<br />
challenge that includes environmental, political, legal and cultural aspects. Creating<br />
an e-Government demands opening, transparency, collaboration and knowledge to<br />
take advantage of the World Wide Web” 12 .<br />
However, even though the governments make the open governmental <strong>da</strong>ta available<br />
in the network, a systematic and radical utilization of this <strong>da</strong>ta in the society by<br />
citizens interested not only in inspecting the government, but also in improving the<br />
public services, influencing the management and increasing the scope of their rights,<br />
actively participating in the political processes is necessary.<br />
Giovandro Marcus Ferreira (2003), based on Breton and Proulx, states that “in<br />
periods of crisis in the definition of individual and collective identities, the theme<br />
of communication becomes particularly timely.” Quoting the book Une Societé de<br />
Communication?, from sociologist Erick Neveu, Ferreira adverts that, in the conflicts<br />
on the limits of the communication field, one runs the risk of constructing the myth<br />
of a society in which all phenomena is analyzed as communicational. And highlights<br />
the central role of the network, overall the Internet, in the description of new society<br />
dynamics: “From this new landing of social functioning, the same society will<br />
produce contradictory speeches. On the one hand, it shall praise its characteristics<br />
of greater transparency, democratization of culture and policy, fomentation of the<br />
autonomy of the social agents. On the other hand, it shall protrude the <strong>da</strong>nger of<br />
social control recapturing the descriptions of theorists (Tocqueville...) who alerted<br />
to a new type of despotism” (FERREIRA, 2003: 255).<br />
The discussion of the media is, then, made central. It is the transition of a public<br />
sphere mediated by the mass media for a public sphere mediated by the networks<br />
that generates a social and political context potentially transforming the concept o<br />
transparency.<br />
12. Ditto 2.<br />
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