Tecnologias de informação e comunicação e suas implicações para o exercício da nova cidadania

Abstract

This research searches to analyze the implications that the new technologies of information and communication cause in the contemporary society. By means of a socio-politic approach, they stand out it exactly stand out the emergency of cyberspace and a deep of in all the domain of human activity being. In this direction, through the concept post-modern of new citizenship, to evidence the new forms of participation extended of the citizens, a time that the use and the conscientious and reflective appropriation for the same ones of the new technologies, offer to a infinity of possibilities of intervention and production of information for all the users. For this, the education put up with the purpose and the function to democratize the TIC(s) for the population, forming citizens with reflection capacity on the conscientious use of the same ones. The research is divided in three chapters that respectively deal with the emergency of the information society; of the new technologies and its relation with the exercise of the new citizenship; and of the TIC(s) in the educational process. Finally, it is evidence that it fits the education to develop positive abilities of cyberculture, so that the citizen knows to all use the new technologies in its potential exerting the new citizenship through extended virtual spaces of participation.