Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-02-17T16:22:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 alinebarbosadeoliveira.pdf: 853401 bytes, checksum: 1db1cb29d441b8e54526c6f060bc9b93 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-02-20T18:01:57Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 alinebarbosadeoliveira.pdf: 853401 bytes, checksum: 1db1cb29d441b8e54526c6f060bc9b93 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-02-20T18:03:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 alinebarbosadeoliveira.pdf: 853401 bytes, checksum: 1db1cb29d441b8e54526c6f060bc9b93 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-20T18:03:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 alinebarbosadeoliveira.pdf: 853401 bytes, checksum: 1db1cb29d441b8e54526c6f060bc9b93 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-29 / A pesquisa ocupa-se do uso da internet por jovens de diferentes classes sociais. Propõe uma análise das formas de apropriação da tecnologia, especificamente, da internet, por classes sociais distintas em diversas dimensões de seu cotidiano. O objetivo geral é verificar se há diferenças significativas no uso da internet por jovens de classes sociais distintas e quais fatores determinam as diferenças e/ou as semelhanças. Para tanto, realizamos entrevistas com jovens das classes A, C e D entre 15 e 17 anos no período de 19 de agosto a 01 de outubro de 2008, com uso de questionários semi-estruturados. Utiliza-se do materialismo histórico dialético como metodologia para a identificação dos princípios organizativos da sociedade. Privilegiam-se as reflexões de teóricos como David Harvey e sua análise da passagem do fordismo para o regime de acumulação flexível; Manuel Castells e sua descrição da sociedade da informação; Norberto Bobbio e sua interpretação dos conceitos de Estado e cidadania; André Lemos e sua revisão crítica sobre ciber-socialidade; e César Bolaño, com sua compreensão da economia política, globalização e comunicação. As considerações finais destacam que há significativas semelhanças nos usos da internet por jovens de classes sociais distintas. As maiores diferenças são relacionadas a questões econômicas, como maior consumo de vídeos entre jovens de classe A, que possuem acesso à rede por banda larga. No entanto, entre os que assistem vídeos, os assuntos, a finalidade e a freqüência são semelhantes, independente da classe social. / The research deals with use of the Internet by young people from different social classes. Proposes an analysis of the forms of ownership of technology, specifically the Internet, by social classes in several different dimensions of their daily lives. The general objective is to verify that there are significant differences in the use of Internet by young people from different social classes and what factors determine the differences and / or the similarities. For this, we performed interviews with young people in classes A, C and D between 15 and 17 years in the period from 19 August to 01 October 2008, using semi-structured questionnaires. Use is made of dialectical historical materialism as a methodology to identify the organizational principles of society. Focus is the thinking of theorists like David Harvey and his analysis of the transition from Fordism to flexible regime of accumulation; Manuel Castells and his description of the information society; Norberto Bobbio and its interpretation of the concepts of state and citizenship; André Lemos and his critical review on cyber-sociality; and César Bolaños, with his understanding of political economy, globalization and communication. The final highlight that there are significant similarities in the uses of the Internet by young people from different social classes. The major differences are related to economic issues, such as greater use of videos of young Class A, which have access to broadband. However, among those watching videos, the subjects, the purpose and frequency are similar, regardless of social class.

This dissertation conducts in-depth inquiries into the practices, nature and theory of post-industrial cultural work and the humanities- and arts-based civic dialogues which cultural work promotes. Given the broad neglect of utopian thinking in the mainstream of critical social science and in an attempt to sketch out a vision of an alternative future, the aim of this thesis is to outline an “epistemology” for post-industrial cultural work as well as to reflect upon the outlook for educational cultural work practices and their function as a catalyst for civic dialogue and cultural change. The main concerns are the signification, interests and aims embodied in cultural production touching on issues of cultural and scientific learning, alternative modes of democratic governance of science and technology (Felt, Wynne et al. 2007), industrial society’s logic of accumulation and market rationality, the primacy of contemporary instrumental and capitalist values, neoliberalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. With a view to addressing elementary questions regarding the future of cultural work, which are explored and theorised alongside future perspectives of a new form of knowledge work for the humanities and the arts, the actual challenges of cultural work are considered from within the wider context of the risk society (Beck 1986) and the threats which affect everybody today. In relying on Beck’s (2009) conceptualization of the world risk society as a “non-knowledge society” characterised by the global existence of incalculable risks/threats and non-knowing, the thesis addresses the problem of non-knowledge and unrecognised contingencies as a challenge for cultural work to design processes of (un)learning in civic dialogues. In exploring the social, cultural and political relevance of three empirical case studies, the thesis ventures into the prospects of a new socio-epistemological perspective for cultural work and workspaces for knowledge. The studies investigate three different (techno-)socio-cultural spaces of knowledge: a public exhibition about the new Gotthard Base Tunnel currently under construction in the Swiss Alps, Jennifer Baichwal’s film Manufactured Landscapes (2006) about the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky and China’s industrial revolution, and the living intervention Fairytale at Documenta 12, 2007, which brought 1,001 Chinese citizens to Kassel, Germany. Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is employed as a tool for the analysis of the material-semiotic properties of differing knowledges, the heterogeneous relations of socio-economic networks, and the global and uncertain conditions of the post-industrial world in which cultural work is embedded. What is colloquially referred to as post-industrial cultural knowledge work in this thesis is elaborated in the context of a propositional socio-epistemological second-order framework (Von Foerster 1984; Pakman 2003) for cultural work and its entanglements with ethics, aesthetics, pragmatics, politics—and biopolitical production (Hardt and Negri 2000; 2009). In order to build “third spaces” of knowledge (Turnbull 2000) and to nurture uncertainty-oriented approaches and contingencies, the findings propose the development of more open, (self-)reflexive and anticipating forms of thinking and acting in cultural production fields with the aim to catalyse societal developments, to foster intrinsic values and to create cultural workplace identities with a moral-ecological-political awareness (cf. Banks 2006; 2007) invoking new interactions between viewers, audiences and the environment.

The present thesis deals with the reign of Nyuserre, one of great Old Kingdom rulers who ruled in the mid-Fifth Dynasty (2402-2374+25 BC). A transformation of whole society of ancient Egypt came to pass during his reign as a consequence of the events in the late Fourth and early Fifth Dynasties, when the highest posts in the administrative system had passed over from members of the royal family to dignitaries of non-royal origin. This fact had been reflected in whole society and started numerous rivulets of change, which merged in a single river in Nyuserre's reign. The gradual transformation of Egyptian society from a kingdom to a state took place during this crucial period, and a number of innovations came about in various spheres (religion, society, administration, tomb architecture, etc.), mirroring a change in the participation in power. This situation was reflected primarily in dignitaries' tombs dated to the given period, which became indicators of the transformation of society. The research is focused on an analysis more than 100 tombs of high-ranking individuals and their family members, and particularly of their titulary, offering formulae, false doors (the central point of the funerary cult), etc. The individual chapters of the present thesis exemplify the most noticeable changes in...