Idosos e cidadania: um olhar sobre uma construção mediada pelas novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Claudimiro Lino de
• Orientador(a): Oliveira, Tiago Mainieri de
• Banca de defesa: Oliveira, Tiago Mainieri de, Freitas , Luiz Antônio Signates, Marques, Ângela Cristina Salgueiro
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação (FIC)
• Departamento: Faculdade de Informação e Comunicação - FIC (RG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Comunicação; Idoso; Cidadania; Velhice; Solidão; Communication; Elderly; Citizenship; Old age; Loneliness
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7996

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.