
handle: 10316/48274
O objetivo geral deste texto é investigar como o uso das tecnologias da informação e comunicação (TIC’s), em particular, o WhatsApp, vem se apresentando como elemento central para a convocação e a mobilização de ciberativistas nas formas contemporâneas de participação política. Para tanto, foi enfocado de que forma os usuários do grupo “# Unidos Contra o Golpe” organizaram protestos em 2016 na cidade de Florianópolis, no que se convencionou denominar usualmente de ciberativismo. O método de investigação é “netnografia” do grupo do WhatsApp, juntamente com a análise de mensagens postadas e a realização de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, ressaltando as motivações quanto ao seu uso político. Para isso, o estudo utilizou procedimentos analíticos de cunho amplamente qualitativo. A pesquisa verificou o potencial mobilizador do WhatsApp para além das abordagens dicotômicas que, por um lado, defendem entusiasticamente o potencial democratizador da internet como uma espécie de “ágora digital”, por outro, observam sua expansão como tendência à alienação e à desmobilização. Conclui-se, a partir da análise empírica, que os múltiplos usos do WhatsApp representaram novas formas de participação política traduzidas em mecanismos de ativação da cidadania e impacto positivo nas formas coletivas de sociabilidade do grupo.
The general objective of this article is to investigate how the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), in particular WhatsApp, has been presented as a central element for the convening and mobilization of cyberactivists in contemporary forms of political participation. For that, it was focused on how the users of the "# United against the coup" group organized protests in 2016 in the city of Florianópolis in Brazil, in what is commonly known as cyberactivism. The research method is "netnography" of the WhatsApp group, along with the analysis of posted messages and semi-structured interviews, highlighting the motivations for their political use. For this, this research used analytical procedures of a highly qualitative nature. The article verified the mobilizing potential of WhatsApp in addition to dichotomous approaches that, on the one hand, enthusiastically defend the democratizing potential of the internet as a sort of "digital agora", on the other, observe its expansion as a tendency towards alienation and demobilization. It is concluded from the empirical analysis that the multiple uses of WhatsApp represented new forms of political participation translated into mechanisms of activation of citizenship and positive impact on the collective forms of sociability of the group.
Political participation, Participação política, WhatsApp, Ciberativismo, Cyberactivism
Political participation, Participação política, WhatsApp, Ciberativismo, Cyberactivism
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