Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-16T15:23:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 24632260 bytes, checksum: 2ed7166defd24ef86a369b76780a4306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Information access and use is everywhere, and the way we are interacting with it is constantly changing. Access to and use of information are transcending the Internet; it is going beyond the use of personal computers. Post-PC devices (tablets, smartphones, etc., network resources and real-time information systems are making our interactions with pervasive and ubiquitous information. This research project seeks to assess the level of satisfaction of users in a digital information environment, structured from a I pervasive Information Architecture. The methodology is characterized as being a research type qualitative - quantitative, descriptive and exploratory, whose research universe are the universe of managers and entrepreneurs in the Business Incubation Program of Universidade Federal de Goiás - PROINE /UFG. From this study it was possible to compose a diagnostic view of the processes of transferring and receiving information through the use of instruments, methodological and technological resources for the development of hybrid information spaces, making it possible to identify the actors, artifacts and context involved in ubiquitous ecologies / A informação está em toda parte, e a maneira como estamos interagindo com ela está em constante mudança. O acesso e o uso da informação estão transcendendo a Internet, vão além da utilização dos computadores pessoais. Dispositivos móveis (Tablets, smartphones e outros), recursos de rede e sistemas de informação em tempo real estão tornando nossas interações com a informação constantes e onipresentes. A pesquisa em questão procura avaliar o nível de satisfação dos usuários de um ambiente informacional digital, estruturado a partir de uma Arquitetura da Informação pervasiva. Caracteriza-se como uma pesquisa do tipo quali-quanti, descritiva e exploratória, que tem como universo os gestores e empreendedores do Programa de Incubação de Empresas da Universidade Federal de Goiás PROINE/ UFG. A partir deste estudo será possível compor uma visão diagnóstica dos processos de transferência e obtenção de informações através da utilização de instrumentos, recursos metodológicos e tecnológicos para o desenvolvimento de espaços informacionais híbridos, tornando possível apontar os atores, artefatos e o contexto envolvidos em ecologias ubíquas.

This master thesis explores the dynamics of information flows between the hacktivist group Guacamaya, media outlets and social media users. The study aims to understand the role of various social actors within the digital space such as media outlets, journalists, bots, and trolls, in shaping public opinion and the overall effectiveness of the group's communication activities. A netnographic methodology was employed to observe the journey and transformation of information as it travelled from the hacktivist group to journalists and eventually to social media users. Tweets were obtained purposefully, to build a media ecology with sentiments, topics and where different actors interact with the information and with each other, modifying and reinterpreting the purpose of Guacamaya. The theoretical framework draws on the concepts of technopolitics, hacktivism, information flows, the network society and gatekeeping. My findings show how the Internet is a contested territory where attention and power are disputed. They also provide evidence on the complexity of the communication process in the digital space as all interactions from all actors influence the information flow. The conclusions highlight the new media ecology environment and the multidisciplinary role of actors in the digital realm. Furthermore, they argue that hacktivism as counterpower involves more than technical skills for uncovering hidden information and demanding accountability, but also strategic reappropriation for reducing inequalities and promoting just and inclusive societies. Hopefully, this thesis contributes to understanding the potential of hacktivists groups to drive political and social change through the understanding of a new communication environment.

For almost two decades, Coastal GasLink, with the support of the State of British Columbia (B.C.), Canada, has sought to build a hydrofracking gas pipeline, which would cross a large part of Wet’suwet’en Nation’s territories. Faced with this, the different clans that make up the Nation, under the governance system of the Hereditary Chiefs, have expressed their disagreement, demonstrating that the environmental assessment and decision-making processes overlooked their deep relationship with the Yintakh (their territory). Drawing on a methodological approach that involved visual ethnography and combined content and narrative analysis, my research aims to analyze the role that emotions play in the territorial-ontological conflict between the State of B.C., Coastal GasLink, and the Wet’suwet’en. The combination of content and narrative analysis helped decipher and understand how people express everyday practices and construct and perform their identity amid the conflict. In facing COVID-19 pandemic limitations, visual ethnography provided an alternative to fieldwork. Using online available audiovisual material, through which I was able to keep a phenomenological approach, I used my senses (visual and auditory) to analyze body movements, tone of voice, and language. The theoretical approach to the conflict was from that of political ontology and emotional political ecologies (EmPEs). To answer my first research question: how is the conflict of interest an ontological conflict? I articulate a framework made up of Ingold’s phenomenology, Blaser’s ontological conflicts, and Escobar's studies of culture as a radical difference. To answer my second research question: what is the role that emotions play in the conflict? I build on the spiderweb, a metaphor developed by Ingold, to expand the scope of González-Hidalgo’s emotional political ecologies. I demonstrate that the processes of political inter-subjectivation sought at the Unist’ot’en Healing Center help understand, on the one hand, the worry, frustration, and stress of the Wet'suwet'ens facing the world-creating practices of Coastal GasLink and the State of B.C. On the other hand, the Healing Center reveals how the affections for the other-than-human and their relational world inform Wet’suwet’en resistance. Lastly, I unveil how Coastal GasLink and the Ministry of Aboriginal Rights and Reconciliation, through discourses and practices of inclusion and gender equality, seek to blur radical cultural differences, delegitimize the Wet’suwet’en pre-colonial governance system, and create affections for the Western-modern world.

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