A (re)evolução do processo (ciber)democrático brasileiro: análise do portal da câmara dos deputados

Abstract

The development of the information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly the Internet, enables new popular participation forms in the Internet. It’s the cyberdemocracy that, using the facilities deriving the Internet, enables greater interaction between individuals and between them and the State, through the freedom of information movement and the creation of online debates. The Internet has provided a revolution in terms of communication, because it has the ability to influence at all issues of human life, from information exchange to the possibility of bringing to the fore again, forms of direct popular participation, the example of what happened in Classical Greece. It is important to check these popular demonstrations, but also the treatment that the public administration is giving to these new forms of the expression of opinions, ideas and control the acts of the rulers. The present work, by treating the cyberdemocracy in Brazil, aims to verify the level of interaction between the Legislature and the public, through systematic and non-participative analysis of the Website of the House of Representatives (only in one case, the observation was direct and active), a mechanism that has excellent forms of public deliberation between citizens and rulers. Therefore, is used the method of deductive approach, starting from the concept of democracy employed in Classical Greece, to reach the current stage of representative democracy, which undergoes changes due to the strong presence of the Internet. Also, are used the methods of procedure historical and monographic, in order to verify the Internet influences for greater popular participation and the ways that people can express themselves with the State. In the end of the job, it was realized that the resources provided by the Internet, per se, are not able to revive direct democracy that existed in ancient Greece, but are important for the population be able to share with the Legislature, more effectively, the bringing of laws and also to provide ideas, information and subsidies to the decisions include the largest number of citizens, so that the systematics of representative democracy is not only the direct elections.