Pub Date : 2018-09-30DOI: 10.31211/INTERACOES.N34.2018.A6
D. Dovie
Este artigo investiga, através de um conjunto de dados qualitativos e quantitativos, a dependência dos trabalhadores dos sectores formal e informal das fontes de conhecimento digital e não digital e a sua utilidade nos processos de planeamento da reforma. Os resultados mostram que os trabalhadores utilizam o hibridismo de artefactos de aprendizagem digital e não digital na obtenção de informações para o planeamento da reforma. Os utilizadores de conhecimento não digital podem ser designados como socialmente excluídos da utilização do espaço digital. Estes são perspetivados através do enfoque nas utilizações, no funcionamento, na capacidade e na agência. A literacia digital facilita o acesso às informações necessárias para o planeamento da reforma através de media sofisticados e outros conhecimentos e competências associadas, enquanto o planeamento da reforma oferece oportunidades para a obtenção de informações necessárias para a inclusão social. O teste V de Cramer de 0,705 indica uma associação forte entre as fontes de informação do planeamento da reforma e a utilidade. Comparativamente, os trabalhadores do sector formal estão mais expostos a, e/ou são usuários de artefactos e literacia digital devido à natureza do seu trabalho e assim são mais digitalmente instruídos o que tem implicações em termos de desigualdade. Isto pode ter consequências no aumento das disparidades na preparação da reforma. A intensificação do planeamento da reforma pode ser auxiliada no futuro através de um maior conhecimento digital, resgatando assim grupos sociais relativamente invisíveis, nomeadamente os trabalhados do sector informal na era digital.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-30DOI: 10.31211/interacoes.n34.2018.a2
Matteo Stocchetti
In the digital age, the practical possibility of engaging inequalities as political problems, that is, as problems related to the competition for the control over the distribution of values in society, is undermined by the digital invisibility of reality In the current state of affairs, the digitalization of society reflects the influence of capitalist interpellation and brings about the invisibility of the real. The invisibility of the real through capitalist digitalization, in turn, conflates digitization and digitalization subordinating the latter to the former. Construed as a process inspired by technological rationality, capitalist digitalization undermines the possibility of mobilizing knowledge and legitimizing practices in support of the interpretation of invisibilities in relation to inequalities and injustice. In line with the critical perspective of Andrew Feenberg and others, my approach is that the influence of capitalism in the digital age results from an epistemic appropriation of a technological development. This appropriation is the source of invisibilities that support inequalities and ultimately injustices that can and should be opposed. Leading on from this, my point is that opposition to this influence depends on the possibility of establishing alternative epistemic grounds and the formulation of alternative interpellations for the production of digital subjectivity. To foster the normative agenda of critical theory, I discuss this possibility in terms of the ‘dialectics of the real’, the re-politicization of the social construction of reality in the digital age and the role of critical media literacy.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-30DOI: 10.31211/INTERACOES.N34.2018.A5
Natasha Chuk
Speed and satisfaction are central to today’s digital communication tools and online social environments. This article examines how new forms and habits of social communication in digital environments have over time compromised socially timid users as a result of algorithmic design and the commodification of users. An examination of the history of online social environments and their outgrowth, the consideration of social and cultural factors, and self-presentation theory, will be used to frame these arguments.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-30DOI: 10.31211/INTERACOES.N34.2018.A4
D. Gómez
This paper explores the three levels of digital divide among young people living in the region of Madrid (Spain). We use a qualitative approach, based on 20 in-depth interviews, in order to describe the personal process of Internet appropriation among this collective, taking into account the differences associated to gender, age, education, geographical habitat and type of technology use. Taking into account the three levels of the digital divide, we explore 5 important barriers (access, skills, motivation, emotions and utility) that influence the type of use of digital technologies by young people. We conclude that, even among youngsters who frequently use digital technologies, there are important asymmetries and barriers that limit the utility they can get from them, related to their sociocultural background and their personal processes of technological socialization.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-30DOI: 10.31211/INTERACOES.N34.2018.A3
L. Cigna
As of 2017, the number of ICT users worldwide reached 4 billion people – it was only 16 million in 1995. According to its early observers, the World Wide Web could effectively tackle socio-economic inequalities, promoting the diffusion of information and opportunities on the four corners of the globe. However, despite the expectations, “digital dividends” arising from new technologies have been distributed unevenly, missing the point of a dramatic, wide-spread emancipatory impetus. Furthermore, as the advantaged tend to seize resources and skills needed for benefitting from the ICTs, the deprived could be further “driven out” from the broadband revolution. Building on these concerns, the aim of the paper is that of reviewing the “state of the art” of the digital inequality debate, shedding light on five main accounts: 1. The adaptive definition of “digital divide”; 2. Methodological approaches; 3. Interaction with other forms of inequalities (socio-economic status, education, race, gender, age); 4. Global dimension and “digital peripheries”; 5. The intrinsically political issue of “connective action”.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-30DOI: 10.31211/INTERACOES.N34.2018.A8
I. Ioniţă
This paper explores the role of digital tools in surfacing and encouraging action against instances of social injustice in Romania, with a focus on food access. Starting from an analysis of developers/owners’ motivations in creating a series of mobile phone applications combatting food waste, this research looks at digital tools’ role in promoting the redistribution of surplus food items that would otherwise go to waste. While acknowledging the limited scope of this endeavor, it is my suggestion that this form of Internet-based food activism is in its incipient stages in Romania and that it does not necessarily aim or have the force to induce social change for the moment.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-30DOI: 10.31211/INTERACOES.N33.2017.A2
J. M. Guimarães
Difundido a partir do Brasil, o nativismo desempenhou um papel fundamental na luta de resistência dos cabo-verdianos contra a opressão colonial portuguesa desde o início do século XIX. Esgotada a sua fase separatista pró-brasileira, ganharia novo alento na viragem do século XIX para o século XX, ganhando cada vez mais adeptos entre os intelectuais republicanos, a cuja luta pelos direitos dos autóctones daria novo folego. Alargando a sua influência no clima de liberdade que acompanhou a implantação e os primeiros tempos da República, os seus adeptos rapidamente conheceram o sabor amargo da desilusão, perante o endurecimento repressivo da política colonial republicana à medida que o regime se aproximava do fim, tendência que se acentuaria irreversivelmente após implantação da ditadura saída do golpe de estado de 28 de maio de 1926. Conscientes da irreversibilidade da evolução, devido ao isolamento do seu combate por todos aqueles que tinham o dever político de o apoiar, os intelectuais nativistas passariam a refrear a sua intervenção, circunscrevendo-a progressivamente à defesa da identidade cabo-verdiana, sobretudo da sua língua, o crioulo, legado que passariam às gerações que lhes sucederam.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-30DOI: 10.31211/INTERACOES.N33.2017.A3
Mário J. A. Santos
O autor, tendo por base a obra completa de Sigmund Freud, pretendeu realçar a importância fundamental do funcionamento mental do psicanalista e da sua disponibilidade interna para o processo analítico com os seus analisandos. Salientando como essencial na formação psicanalítica a análise pessoal que possibilite o tender e o realizar-se naquilo que verdadeiramente se é.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-30DOI: 10.31211/INTERACOES.N33.2017.A4
A. Galhardo
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