Internet, políticas públicas e suas múltiplas perspectivas de inclusão/exclusão digital

Abstract

This theses aims to identify new perspectives related to the internet through the interaction of users with devices, as well as to investigate the social interactions created by ICTs and the emergence of the new information society. It also aims to identify the first steps of technology to the present day, from the animals' domestication to the creation of the internet and its inferences in the individuals' daily life, as well as to discuss the digital inequality in Brazil. Through a research in loco, the work investigates the emergencies related to the access to the internet through Wireless public municipal broadband networks in the city of Alvorada (RS). In order to do so, we analyze the "new society" based on the Internet and the individual's perception about the access and maintenance of municipal broadband.