Idosos e cidadania: um olhar sobre uma construção mediada pelas novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação
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2017-07-13
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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This work discusses the current relationship of the elderly with new information and
communication technologies, which has possible reflect in a condition of their citizenship
status. The intention is to study a certain communication habit of people aged 60 years or
older, legally defined as elderly in Brazil and investigate an characteristic of contemporaneity:
the sharing of virtual and digital contents through platforms or devices known as
smartphones, notebooks, PCs, tablets or phablets with access to the world wide web.
Specifically, an attempt is made to evaluate how technological supports can contribute to the
formation of contents related to citizenship, to the rights of the elderly, to the image of old age
or your social representation. For this, a qualitative approach is used. Is used here a content
analysis, theory traditionally described by Laurence Bardin. And, above all, it seeks to enrich,
through the present research, the approaches related to old age with a look from the field of
communication. The theoretical course addresses the context in which the notion of old age is
inserted and emphasizes the communication as a foundation for citizenship. The results of the
empirical research demonstrated the presence, even small, of contents, considered as of “civic
engagement”, presumed here as a condition for a transformation of the citizenship status of
the elderly. Featured for the results of the Communication category, identificated in content
analysis, for its importance to helping the elderly to get out their isolation, of their loneliness
and, often, even a more serious state of depression. The Search category indicated the
importance of the smartphone to the elderly lives providing to they a knowlege that they
didn´t have. In the Intergenerational Relationship category, the possibility of re-signification
of the relationships between the young and the elderly was perceived. Work and Political
Participation were categories that indicated a greater proximity of the subject of “civic
engagement” but did not came out so much, in the material collected. Self-Help and Humor
categories appeared as types of important content in the daily life of the elderly when they
using the social networks. The data show that, for the sample, in that social contexts inserted,
the New Information and Communications Technologies (NICTs) exerts influence on the
social reinsertion and public visibility of the elderly, incipient civic engagement as well as
their social capital. Despite the problems of the digital virtual environment, this space offers
the elderly or more people a way of breaking the isolation that many experience, reducing the
perception or feeling of loneliness through the relationship with people close and distant or a
promotion of new contacts of friendship. In this way, the internet, for the elderly, is more than
a source of income, service, learning or entertainment research. For this public, the Internet
and the NICTs can offer the rescue of the old friends, promote new and strengthen
intergenerational family ties.
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Comunicação , Idoso , Cidadania , Velhice , Solidão , Communication , Elderly , Citizenship , Old age , Loneliness
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ARAÚJO, Claudimiro Lino de. Idosos e cidadania: um olhar sobre uma construção mediada pelas novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação. 2017. 135 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Comunicação) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2017.