This dissertation makes the connection between the human drive, as described by psychoanalysis, to construct God and the construction of the technological entity, Google. Google constitutes the extension of the early Christian period God to the twenty-first century. From the examination of significant religious and theological texts by significant theologians (Augustine, Thomas, Luther, Calvin, etc.) that explain the nature of God, the analogous relationship of God to Google will open a psychoanalytic discourse that answers questions on the current state of human mediation with the world. Freud and, more significantly, Lacan’s work connects the human creation of God, ex nihilio, to Google’s godly qualities and behaviors (omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, and omnibenevolence). This illustrates the powerful motivation behind the creation of an all-encompassing physical / earthly entity that includes the immaterial properties of God. Essentially, Google operates as the extension or replacement of the long reigning God in Western culture. Furthermore, the advent of science and technology through rationalism (as outlined by Nietzsche) results in the death of the metaphysical God and the ascension of the technological God. Google offers an appropriate example for study. Moreover, the work of Jean Baudrillard and Marshall McLuhan will further comment on Google as the technological manifestation of God, particularly in its media formulations. Finally, this dissertation concludes with a review that highlights future research with an exploration that foresees the death of Google from the same rational method of inquiry by which the death of God occurred at the end of the nineteenth century. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-06-26T12:32:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Patricia Giannoccaro von Huelsen.pdf: 13871780 bytes, checksum: 075e8cfe2f679d49332fc058daf7f5a6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-26T12:32:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Patricia Giannoccaro von Huelsen.pdf: 13871780 bytes, checksum: 075e8cfe2f679d49332fc058daf7f5a6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-15 / This study maps the issues found inside of the cyberspace as well as the historical concept of ethics and morality. Within its first section, the main features of the cyberspace and social behaviour in the cyberspace are examined; thoughts and concepts of famous philosophers such as Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Kant, Hegel, Durkheim, Weber, Freud e Nietzsche are also discussed. The core objective of this mapping is to understand the dimensions and associations linked to the concept of ethics and morality. It also touches upon key questions such as the notions of: truth, good and evil, moral conscience, beauty as a virtue, as well as ethic, material and aesthetic values. Lastly, a model for analysing these notions and concepts with observations found in the cyberspace is proposed, based on the ideal type model by Max Weber / O estudo traz um mapa dos dilemas vivenciados no ciberespaço e mapas sobre os conceitos históricos da moral e da ética. Ele inicia-se com as evidências sócio-comportamentais e características do ciberespaço na atualidade. Percorre o pensamento de autores clássicos da filosofia, da sociologia e da psicologia, tais como: Aristóteles, São Tomás de Aquino, Kant, Hegel, Durkheim, Weber, Freud e Nietzsche entre outros. O objetivo deste mapeamento é compreender o conceito da moralidade e da ética em todas as suas dimensões e associações, percorrendo questões centrais do conhecimento, tais como: o conceito de verdade, a ideia do bem e do mal, o conceito da virtude associado a beleza, a consciência moral, o valor moral, o valor material, o valor simbólico e estético. Ao final deste estudo teórico, propõem-se um modelo de análise, com base no tipo ideal weberiano, relacionando os conceitos aos valores observados no ciberespaço

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-07-21T11:38:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Deusiney Robson de Araújo Farias.pdf: 1248283 bytes, checksum: 1dd8ae014c54ed45828e05d8949a1b39 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T11:38:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Deusiney Robson de Araújo Farias.pdf: 1248283 bytes, checksum: 1dd8ae014c54ed45828e05d8949a1b39 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-27 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / Activism in cyberspace, also called cyberactivism, a transnational practice that puts us before invisible demands for techno excluded, and largely ignored by the political field, is presented as a solution to political problems, such as the collaborative public dialogue promotion and as online mobilization. In Brazil, the political struggles variations of recent years raise the following questions: what are the fundamental characteristics of activism in cyberspace and in the Brazilian political field? According to their characteristics, for what reasons do the demands and actions proposed by cyberactivists have little repercussion and support in the Brazilian political field and in society, often leading to temporary disappearance or at random? In response to these questions, we propose five hypotheses, namely: [1] political activism in cyberspace is part of an "activist protocampo"; [2] the hackeractivist has the potential to influence the political field through its actions of resistance; cyberactivists can simulate public opinion; The clickactivist or "like" activist is the maneuvering mass of the cyberactivist actions; [3] ciberactivism favors a much more alterity with the medium of communication and its connection links; [4] the political field is based on the blackmail game, characterized as its main conventional method of action / articulation; and [5] this form of activism provoked a political field reaction, which instrumented means capable of neutralizing actions in cyberspace and capitalizing on the results in favor of the image itself. The critical reflection on the Brazilian political and cybercultural reality aims at organizing a theoretical-methodological framework based on the deductive reasoning method, which is supported by two related symbolic models: [a] the political field as an autonomous microcosm, a socially structure based on a control and dispute system; and [b] activism in cyberspace, an emerging form of action with enormous political potential. Pierre Bourdieu's methodological view of relationally thinking about the object represented a fundamental part of our thesis. Likewise, the theoretical-epistemological framework formed in Brazil about activism in cyberspace contributed to the existing terms classification in the existing literature. Especially based on the concepts of Eugenio Trivinho, Jean Baudrillard, Fábio Malini, Henrique Antoun and Norberto Bobbio, we propose the concept of glocal activism, considering the global life organization modes added to the technomiditic local civilization arrangements resulted in a third social and political dimension, no longer local or global, but - just - glocal. This way, we conclude that, behind the political field visible power, there is an invisible power that acts through the blackmail game. In this dispute, hackeractivism has great potential to decrypt the existing game and eventually subvert the structures of power. This same action, however, makes us vulnerable to advanced digital technology, historically reinforcing the glocal phenomenon as an inexorable existential condition / O ativismo no ciberespaço, também denominado ciberativismo, prática transnacional que nos coloca diante de demandas invisíveis para tecnoexcluídos e, em grande parte, ignoradas pelo campo político, apresenta-se como solução para problemas políticos, como promoção de diálogo público colaborativo e como mobilização online. No Brasil, as vicissitudes das lutas políticas dos últimos anos fazem emergir as seguintes questões: quais as características fundamentais do ativismo no ciberespaço e do campo político brasileiro?; em que pesem suas características, por quais razões as demandas e ações propostas pelos ciberativistas têm pouca repercussão e sustentação no campo político brasileiro e na sociedade, muitas vezes chegando ao desaparecimento temporário ou ao ocaso? Como resposta a essas questões, propomos cinco hipóteses, a saber: [1] o ativismo político no ciberespaço faz parte de um “protocampo ativista”; [2] o hackerativista tem o potencial de influenciar o campo político por meio de suas ações de resistência; os ciberativistas podem criar simulacros de opinião pública; o clickativista ou ativista like é massa de manobra das ações ciberativistas; [3] O ciberativismo favorece muito mais uma alteridade com o meio de comunicação e seus links de conexão; [4] o campo político sustenta-se a partir do jogo de chantagens, caracterizado como o seu principal método convencional de ação/articulação; e [5] essa forma de ativismo provocou uma reação por parte do campo político, que instrumentalizou meios capazes de neutralizar ações no ciberespaço e capitalizar os resultados em favor da própria imagem. A reflexão crítica sobre essa realidade política e cibercultural brasileira visa organizar um arcabouço teórico-metodológico a partir do método de raciocínio dedutivo, baseada em dois modelos simbólicos conexos: [a] o campo político como microcosmo autônomo, estrutura socialmente estruturada sobre um sistema de controle e disputa; e [b] o ativismo no ciberespaço, forma emergente de ação com enorme potencial político. A visão metodológica de Pierre Bourdieu, de pensar relacionalmente o objeto, representou parte fundamental de nossa Tese. Igualmente, o arcabouço teórico-epistemólogico formado no Brasil sobre ativismo no ciberespaço contribuiu para a classificação dos termos apresentados na literatura existente. Especialmente com base nos conceitos de Eugênio Trivinho, Jean Baudrillard, Fábio Malini, Henrique Antoun e Norberto Bobbio, propomos o conceito de ativismo glocal, considerando que os modos de organização global da vida, somados aos arranjos locais na civilização tecnomidiática, resultaram em uma terceira dimensão social e política, já nem local nem global, mas – justamente – glocal. Diante disso, concluímos que, por trás do poder visível do campo político, existe um poder invisível que atua por meio do jogo de chantagens. Nessa disputa, o hackerativismo tem grande potencial para descriptografar o jogo existente e, eventualmente, subverter as estruturas de poder. Essa mesma ação, contudo, nos entrega ao domínio da tecnologia digital avançada, reforçando historicamente o fenômeno glocal como condição existencial inexorável

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Communication

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Communication

Social networking sites and virtual spaces have flourished in the past few years. The author explores the impact of such social networking services on the local community at a small liberal arts college. The author investigates modern trends in community theory. Defining community has become more difficult in modern society, where community is no longer easily distinguished by geographical boundaries. From the background of modern community theory the author explores the designation of virtual spaces as “virtual communities.” Literature and research about virtual spaces indicates that they can provide many of the values thought be to inherent to community membership. The strong localized community on campus makes students hesitant in calling Facebook a “virtual community,” despite its strong integration with the face-to-face community itself. Facebook is seen as simply a tool. This thesis incorporates research on one specific case study: through mathematical and ethnographic research of Facebook.com, the author evaluates the opinions of students in considering virtual spaces as communities.

É fato que as mídias eletrônicas são utilizadas cada dia mais como ferramentas de comunicação e interação entre usuários, criando assim as chamadas comunidades sociovirtuais. Um dos problemas decorrentes disso, como em qualquer outra situação, está relacionado aos excessos no seu uso. A sociedade se dá conta de que alguns usuários transgridem limites considerados razoáveis do ponto de vista da dependência das mídias, do tempo a elas dedicado e dos conteúdos compartilhados. Esse vício surge em um contexto de falta de controle tanto individual quanto coletivo. O objetivo deste estudo é verificar a correlação entre o vício no uso de mídias sociais e a extensão dos limites da confiança. Para tanto, discute-se o uso de mídias sociais, como Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Orkut, entre outros, por adolescentes incluídos em comunidades sociovirtuais. Em termos metodológicos, quanto à sua natureza, a pesquisa é aplicada, descritiva em relação aos seus objetivos e predominantemente quantitativa no que se refere à abordagem do problema. Em relação aos procedimentos técnicos, utilizam-se técnicas de pesquisa bibliográfica e de levantamento, o qual é realizado junto a adolescentes de Curitiba. Como principal resultado, o estudo aponta que há uma relação direta entre aumento do uso da internet, medido pelo nível de “vício”, e a intensidade, ou limites, da confiança. Os dados mostram que quanto mais “viciado” é o adolescente mais ele considera, mais ele integra, os diferentes elementos da confiança nas suas decisões. / It’s a fact that electronic medias are more and more used as people’s communication and interaction tools, creating the so-called social virtual communities. One of the associated problems, as in any other situation, is related to overusing them. Society has realized that some users transgress the reasonable limits from the point of view of media addiction, time dedicated to it and shared content. This active addiction arises in a loss of control context both individual and collective. The present study aims to verify the correlation between social media active addiction and the extent of trust limits. Therefore, it has been discussed the use of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Orkut, among others, by teenagers included in social virtual communities. In methodological terms, according to its nature, this is an applied research, descriptive in relation to its goals and predominantly quantitative concerning the problem approach. Regarding the technical procedures, bibliographic research and survey methods have been used with teenagers in Curitiba city. As a main result, the study show that there is a direct relationship between increased use of the Internet, measured by the level of “addiction", and the intensity or limits of trust. The data show that, more "addicted" of teenager, more intensity are considers the variables or elements of trust in their decisions.