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 />
• Extension of the fight against digital exclusion and other historical exclusions<br />
of cultural, economic, territorial and ethnic nature, which harm, in practice,<br />
the exercise of a full citizenship;<br />
• Protection in face of control policies and the activities of the social surveillance<br />
institutions. In other words, protection in face of the exercise of a biopower<br />
potentialized by an institutional use of the ICT;<br />
• Betting on free software, on free knowledge, and on the development of multiple<br />
forms of popular culture, with the goal of consoli<strong>da</strong>ting a networked<br />
public sphere.<br />
Many of these aspects have been dealt with in the presentations of this Seminar,<br />
reflected in the articles comprising this volume. I hope my contribution helps highlighting<br />
some relations that allow the exploration of these digital citizenship dimensions.<br />
There are three elements particularly affecting the development of this sphere<br />
of citizenship. First, the relationship between communicational power, as a form of<br />
biopower, and digital citizenship. Second, the concept of the Network as ecosystems<br />
and as procommons (Benkler and Ostrom) as a way of fighting since a social counterpower<br />
up to the referred communicational power. Third, the appropriation of the<br />
communities of interest with manifestations of innovation socialization processes and<br />
creation of peripheral knowledge processes. Let us talk about each of those elements:<br />
Communicational power and digital citizenship<br />
Communicational power must not be considered a mere modulation of the<br />
political and financial power. It is connected to M. Foucault’s concept of biopower,<br />
a power expressed in multiple dimensions, of which politics is only one among<br />
many others. In addition to that, it is a power with deep metaphoric strength, for it<br />
is established as a model to understand social praxis and the macro social processes,<br />
as well as communication relations that are found in a micro social level. It is the<br />
so-called micro physics of power, present in the <strong>da</strong>ily practices, in which power is<br />
expressed in all its forms. Power and knowledge are united therein, where human<br />
practices appear. Technological biopower replaces pre-modern sovereign power.<br />
The knowledge that informatics and telecommunications extend throughout the<br />
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