This thesis investigates the potentially complex power effects generated in Online Social Networking Sites (‘OSNS’), such as YouTube and Facebook, when legal values, such as copyright and personal data, are protected and/or violated. In order to develop this analysis, in Chapter Two, I critically analyse key academic writings on internet regulation and argue that I need to move away from the dominant ‘regulatory’ lens to my Actor-Network Theory-Foucauldian Power Lens (‘ANT-Foucauldian Power Lens’) in order to be able to capture the potentially complex web of power effects generated in YouTube and Facebook when copyright and personal data are protected and/or violated. In Chapter Three, I develop my ANT-Foucauldian Power Lens and explore how key ANT ideas such as translation can be used in conjunction with Foucauldian ideas such as governmentality. I utilise my ANT-Foucauldian Power Lens in Chapters Four to Seven to analyse how YouTube and Facebook are constructed as heterogeneous, contingent and precarious ‘actor-networks’ and I map in detail the complex power effects generated from specific local connections. I argue five key points. Firstly, I suggest that complex, multiple, and contingent power effects are generated when key social, legal, and technological actants are locally, contingently, and precariously ‘fitted together’ in YouTube and Facebook when copyright and personal data are protected and/or violated. Secondly, I argue that ‘materialities’ play key roles in maintaining the power effects generated by specific local connections. Thirdly, I argue that there are close links between power and ‘spatialities’ through my analysis of the Privacy Settings and Tagging in Facebook. Fourthly, I argue that my relational understandings of YouTube and Facebook generate a more comprehensive view of the power effects of specific legal elements such as how specific territorial laws in YouTube gain their authority by virtue of their durable and heterogeneous connections. Finally, I argue that we can extrapolate from my empirical findings to build a small-scale theory about the power effects generated in OSNS when legal values are protected and/or violated. Here I also consider the contributions made by my research to three distinct fields, namely, internet regulation, socio-legal studies, and actor-network theory.

Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2001. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is widely accepted that the Internet has become a valuable resource for social scientists, not just for the purpose of information exchange; via e-mail, discussion groups and electronic journals, but also as a medium for data collection. Its global nature gives a researcher access to a vast range of individuals located around the world. It also opens up access to difficult to hitherto penetrate study areas, such as sensitive research on deviant behaviour. Further, it is claimed that considerable savings to both research budgets and time frames are made possible with the new technology. It is not surprising, therefore, that a substantial body of research, employing the Internet as the primary means of data collection, already exists. This raises a number of questions as to how the Internet fares as a research tool. Are there any important methodological issues that this new approach raises? Do the traditional research methods suffice? Or are adaptations to existing methods necessary when difficulties are encountered? Does such changes affect the more fundamental question of the research design? These questions are considered in this thesis. To answer them, I consider two different types of empirical research designs. The first,' survey research, is a quantitative, numerical design that traditionally has a high level of control. I consider in detail issues of sampling, including non-response, and questionnaire design. The second design examined, ethnographic research, is qualitative, textual and generally has a low level of researcher control. I address the methods used in cyber ethnography and then discuss the considerable ethical concerns that feature in such research. I conclude that, on the whole, the existing methods can be transferred to Internet research. Indeed, some of the problems faced in traditional research are also considerations in Internet studies and can be overcome by employing similar techniques, such as using incentives to reduce non-response rates. However, a number of new problems emerge, such as the lack of paralinguistic cues, which require adaptations to the existing methods in order to produce results that can be considered valid and reliable. However, I also argue that these necessary adaptations to the methods do not affect the underlying principles found in the research design. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Dit word algemeen aanvaar dat die Internet In waardevolle hulpmiddel is vir sosiaalwetenskaplikes; nie net vir die uitruil van inligting deur middel van e-pos, besprekingsforums en elektroniese joernale nie, maar ook as In instrument om inligting te versamel. Die globale aard van die internet gee die navorser toegang to In wye spektrum individue internasionaal. Dit verleen ook toegang tot moeilike navorsingsareas, soos sensitiewe navorsing oor afwykende gedrag. Verder word beweer dat dit aansienlike besparings moontlik kan maak vir beide die navorsingsbegroting en tydraamwerk. Dit is dus nie verbasend dat In substansiële hoeveelheid van navorsing, wat die Internet as die primêre bron van dataversameling gebruik, reeds bestaan nie. Dit laat verskeie vrae ontstaan oor hoe die Internet vaar as In navorsingshulpmiddel. Is daar enige belangrike metodologiese kwessies wat hierdie nuwe metode aanraak? Is die tradisionele metodes voldoende? Of moet daar veranderinge aan die huidige metodes aangebring word wanneer probleme ontstaan? Sal hierdie veranderinge die fundamentele aspekte van navorsingsontwerp beïnvloed? Die vrae saloorweeg word in hierdie tesis. Ek gebruik twee empiriese navorsingsontwerpe om die vrae te beantwoord. Die eerste, steekproefnavorsing, is In kwantitatiewe ontwerp wat tradisioneel In hoë vlak van beheer toon. Ek ondersoek in detail kwessies van steekproewe, insluitend geen respons en vraelysontwerp. Die tweede ontwerp wat ondersoek word, etnografiese navorsing, is kwalitatief, tekstueel en toon in die algemeen In lae vlak van navorser beheer. Ek ondersoek die metodes wat gebruik word in kuberetnografie en bespreek dan die etiese vraagstukke wat hierdie navorsing kenmerk. Ek kom tot die gevolgtrekking dat oor die algemeen die huidige metodes toegepas kan word op Internetnavorsing. Inderdaad kan van die probleme wat ondervind word in tradisionele navorsing ook ondervind word in Internet studies en ook hier kan dit oorkom word deur die gebruik van soortgelyke tegnieke, soos om aansporingsbonusse om geen responskoerse te verminder, hoewel daar nuwe probleme opduik, soos die gebrek aan para-taalkundige wenke. Dit noodsaak veranderinge aan die huidige metodes om resultate te lewer wat geldig en betroubaar is. Ek redeneer egter ook dat hierdie nodige veranderinge aan die metodes nie onderliggende beginsels van navorsingsontwerp verander nie.

Cette recherche propose d’analyser les impacts et les enjeux géographiques d’un cyberespace omni présent. Sous l’impulsion du web 2.0 et celle des globes virtuels (Google Earth, Virtual Earth, World Wind), la production et la diffusion du savoir géographique subissent d’amples transformations. Les espaces virtuels et autres services de géolocalisation (LBS) remplacent peu à peu la carte papier et le guide touristique. Ces usages participent à l’émergence d’un espace complexe où viennent se mêler des usages dans l’espace réel et des usages dans l’espace virtuel. Parallèlement, une production d’intérêt géographique en résulte, hors des milieux qui, jusqu’à ces dernières années, en étaient les initiateurs et les utilisateurs obligés : universités, organismes de recherche, géographes professionnels, Etats, ONG, militaires … Cette thèse éclairera donc le lecteur sur la réalité géographique des (nouveaux) usages du cyberespace, qu’ils soient liés à la production « amateur » de contenus géographiques (néogéographie) ou à la consommation « augmentée » de l’espace géographique. / This research proposes to analyze the impacts and challenges of an omnipresent geographical cyberspace. Spurred on by web 2.0 and that of virtual globes (Google Earth, Virtual Earth, World Wind), the production and diffusion of geographical knowledge undergo further transformations. Virtual spaces and other location-based services (LBS) are gradually replacing the paper map and tourist guide. These uses contribute to the emergence of a complex space where uses in real space and uses in the virtual space mingle. Meanwhile, production of geographical interest results outside areas which, until recently, were the initiators and traditional users: universities, research organizations, professional geographers, states, NGOs, military ... This thesis will enlighten the reader on the geographical reality of the (new) uses of cyberspace, whether related to the production of "amateur" geographical content (neogeography) or to consumption "augmented" of geographical space.

Alors que la mobilisation de la diaspora tamoule pendant la guerre civile sri lankaise (1983-2009) a été amplement discutée et analysée, peu de chercheurs se sont penchés sur la mobilisation de la diaspora tamoule après 2009. Pourtant, cette mobilisation d’après-guerre présente une rupture importante avec le discours d’indépendance du Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) prédominant pendant la guerre civile sri lankaise, rupture qui s’illustre, entre autres, par l’émergence d’un discours de reconnaissance du génocide. Comment expliquer ce changement de discours? L’objectif de ce mémoire est d’exposer le recadrage des actions collectives de la diaspora tamoule depuis 2009, pour ensuite expliquer comment et pourquoi nous l’observons. Pour ce faire, nous retraçons le discours de cinq acteurs collectifs en matière d’indépendance et de génocide, tel que rapporté par le site web diasporique, Tamilnet.com. Les acteurs collectifs à l’étude sont les suivants : le Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), le Global Tamil Forum (GTF), le Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE), Tamils Against Genocide (TAG) et le National Council of Canadian Tamils (NCCT). Notre démarche, qui consiste en une analyse de cadrage, à la fois quantitative et qualitative, nous amène à remettre en question la relation causale entre la fenêtre d’opportunité et le recadrage. En revanche, nous démontrons que le recadrage des actions collectives de la diaspora tamoule depuis 2009 s’explique par l’émergence de nouveaux acteurs collectifs, eux-mêmes porteurs d’un nouveau discours. L’apparition de ces nouveaux acteurs collectifs médiate ainsi la relation entre la fenêtre d’opportunité et le recadrage. / While previous studies have focused on Tamil diaspora mobilization during Sri Lanka’s civil war (1983-2009), post-war Tamil mobilization within the diaspora remains largely understudied. However, this post-war mobilization is characterized by the emergence of a new discourse on the recognition of the Tamil genocide and represents a major break with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)’s discourse on Tamil Eelam independence. How can we explain this shift in discourse? This research outlines the reframing of collective actions organized within the Tamil diaspora since 2009 and provides an explanation as to why such reframing is taking place. We focus on five collective actors, namely the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Global Tamil Forum (GTF), the Transnational Governement of Tamil Eelam (TGTE), Tamils Against Genocide (TAG) and the National Council of Canadian Tamils (NCCT). We deconstruct their discourse pertaining to Tamil independence and Tamil genocide using Tamilnet.com, an online news portal. Using a quantitative and qualitative frame analysis approach, we challenge the causal relationship between opportunity window and reframing. Conversely, our results show that the reframing of Tamil collective actions in the diaspora since 2009 is due to the emergence of new collective actors, bearers of a new discourse on the recognition of genocide. We then suggest that the emergence of new collective actors mediates the relationship between opportunity window and reframing.

This master thesis deals with some elements of information literacy throught the term netiquette. The netiquette's relation with etics and etiquette is described in the theoretical part. This part's interest lies in the organisations engaged in netiquette, cyberspace, language and chosen elements of information literacy in connection with the computer literacy. The empirical part of the research handles the knowledge of netiquette at 4th and 5th grade students of elementary schools. Using an anonymous questionnary, the research's objective was to discover the acquaintance of the term netiquette and to realise the differences of the acquirement according to the size of the location of their elementary school, to the sex of subject and to the socioeconomic status of students. The research detects the relation of the information literacy with more facts, as having computer at home, knowing how to use computer and internet, managing the basic manipulation, being familiar with the safety rules. According to the investigation, all the asken students have modern technologies at home with ratio of 27% of the students on the countryside and 59% of the students living in a town, overal 43% of asked subjects are familiar with the netiquette. Even instructed students happen to break the safety rules. The...

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 2018-09-26T10:04:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Ricardo Vieira de Souza.pdf: 1123440 bytes, checksum: e5ceefcb485691ee0e19257f666d7604 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-26T10:04:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ricardo Vieira de Souza.pdf: 1123440 bytes, checksum: e5ceefcb485691ee0e19257f666d7604 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-08-24 / This work is based on the concern about the practice of illicit at the transnational level facilitated by the incessant and always renewed improvement of communication through the world wide web. If on the one hand, the internet, an indisputable product of this network, has favored the connection between people from different parts of the world, on the other hand, has brought cyber-crime to the forefront, which at the same time challenges the establishment of a criminal guardianship for cyberspace in impunity. This is due to the phenomenon of globalization, which has shortened distances in the face of technological and social advances, and the consequences of criminal law. The present research sought to justify how it is possible before the classical concepts of sovereignty that a state effectively combats transnational cyber crime. For that, points were developed as to how the classic concept of sovereignty is found; the characteristics of cyberspace; and the concepts of jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction. Thus, a dogmatic criminal and procedural criminal analysis will be carried out if it is possible to establish a transnational criminal jurisdiction as a way of regulating cyberspace / Este trabalho parte da preocupação com a prática de ilícitos em nível transnacional facilitada pelo aprimoramento incessante e sempre renovado da comunicação através da rede mundial de computadores. Se de um lado, a internet, produto indiscutível dessa rede, favoreceu a conexão entre as pessoas de diversas partes do mundo, de outro, trouxe à baila a criminalidade cibernética, que contemporaneamente desafia o estabelecimento de uma tutela penal para o ciberespaço no que tange a impunidade. Isso decorre do fenômeno da globalização, a qual encurtou distâncias em face dos avanços tecnológicos e sociais, e as consequências causadas ao direito penal. A presente pesquisa buscou fundamentar como é possível ante os conceitos clássicos de soberania, que um Estado combata a criminalidade cibernética transnacional de maneira efetiva. Para tanto, foram desenvolvidos pontos de como encontra-se o conceito clássico de soberania; as características do ciberespaço; e os conceitos de jurisdição e competência penal. Torna-se assim efetuar uma análise dogmática penal e processual penal se é possível se instituir uma jurisdição penal transnacional como forma de regular o ciberespaço

Submitted by William Justo Figueiro (williamjf) on 2015-07-20T19:34:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 52c.pdf: 1845777 bytes, checksum: e583f058d1f5aa1dc679910bff89aa11 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-20T19:34:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 52c.pdf: 1845777 bytes, checksum: e583f058d1f5aa1dc679910bff89aa11 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-07-08 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente trabalho propõe-se a realizar uma observação transdisciplinar de inclinação sociológica das relações entre Direito e Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação (TIC’s). Parte-se da teoria da estruturação, do sociólogo britânico Anthony Giddens, buscando-se, com ela, observar o ciberespaço como espaço relacional na construção de redes sociais virtuais em um cenário de alta modernidade. Observar-se-á a conjugação de processos aparentemente distintos, como globalização, direito e revolução tecnológica, a qual vem delineando uma sociedade planetária unificada, marcada pela indefinição e indeterminação. Nesse sentido, para a teoria da estruturação, tendências globalizantes da alta modernidade são marcadas pela reorganização do tempo e do espaço, por mecanismos de desencaixe e pela reflexividade. Com efeito, isso se intensifica a partir da ação conjunta de máquinas e indivíduos. Assim, desvelar-se-á uma tese sobre máquinas (Lévy/Guattari), que permitirá uma compreensão mais ampla não apenas do contexto de redes, mas do processo de formação e articulação de identidades em um contexto de monitoração reflexiva no ciberespaço. Máquinas e indivíduos tecem-se conjuntamente, em um mundo composto por corpos, culturas, linguagens, significações, dobras e redobras, onde o empírico torna-se transcendental e o transcendental faz advir um mundo empírico, em uma constante interpenetração, criando a mecanosfera, a mega-máquina mundo. É nessa perspectiva que se observará como a criação de redes sociais na Internet vem originando ambientes comunicacionais que merecem, atualmente, a atenção do Direito. Entre eles, destaca-se a necessidade de observação de uma figura híbrida, surgida recentemente no ciberespaço, a partir da interface entre comércio eletrônico (e-commerce) e redes sociais, denominada social commerce (comércio social). Com efeito, o ciberespaço vem ensejando o surgimento de uma cibercultura de consumo, desterritorializada, despersonalizada e em constante desenvolvimento em redes sociais. Nesse novo espaço virtual de compras em rede, podem se apontar, logo, aspectos que interessam ao Direito, sobretudo ao Direito do Consumidor. Entre eles, destacam-se a publicidade e a proteção da privacidade e da intimidade no ciberespaço, salientando-se, entre outros aspectos, os bancos de dados e cadastros dos consumidores. Entende-se que os problemas ora diagnosticados trazem a necessidade de uma reinterpretação e da adaptação da dogmática jurídica do direito do consumidor, a qual pode servir-se de subsídios de um ponto de observação sociológico. Transformações do tempo, a co-modificação do espaço e o estabelecimento de um complexo meio ambiente criado são, assim, fatores que devem ser sopesados em análises jurídicas que dão conta não apenas do plano físico, mas igualmente do virtual. / This paper proposes to carry out a sociological observation transdisciplinary slope of the relationship between Law and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). It starts with the theory of structuration, the British sociologist Anthony Giddens, seeking, with it, see cyberspace as the relational space in the building of virtual social networks in a scenario of high modernity. Notice will be a combination of seemingly disparate processes such as globalization, law and technological revolution, which has been outlining a unified planetary society, marked by uncertainty and indeterminacy. In this sense, the theory of structuration, globalizing trends of high modernity is marked by the reorganization of time and space, mechanisms for undocking and reflexivity. Indeed, it intensifies from the joint action of individuals and machines. Thus, it will unveil a thesis about machines (Levy / Guattari), which will allow a broader understanding not only the context of networks, but the process of formation and articulation of identities in a context of reflexive monitoring in cyberspace. Machinery and individuals weave themselves together in a world consisting of bodies, cultures, languages, meanings, folds and pleats, where it becomes the empirical and the transcendental transcendental result is an empirical world in a constant interpenetration, creating mecanosphere the mega-machine world. From this perspective, it is observed that the creation of social networking sites is leading communication environments they deserve, now, the attention of law. Among them, there is the need for observation of a hybrid figure, which appeared recently in cyberspace, from the interface between electronic commerce (e-commerce) and social networks, called social commerce (trade office). Indeed, cyberspace has lead to the emergence of a consumer cyberculture, deterritorialized, depersonalized and constantly evolving social network. In this new virtual space in shopping network, can be pointed out, so issues of interest to the law, particularly the right of the consumer. Among these is the publicity and protection of privacy and intimacy in cyberspace, stressing, among other things, the databases and records of consumers. It is understood that the problems now diagnosed bring the need for a reinterpretation and adaptation of legal dogmatics of consumer law, which can make use of subsidies for a sociological viewpoint. Transformations of time, the co-modification of the space and the establishment of a complex environment created are thus factors to be weighed in legal analysis that account not only the physical but also virtual.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-07-21T11:37:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Janice Gusmão Ferreira de Andrade.pdf: 2042345 bytes, checksum: 6529e751351061fa13b84eb91babd584 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T11:37:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Janice Gusmão Ferreira de Andrade.pdf: 2042345 bytes, checksum: 6529e751351061fa13b84eb91babd584 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-07 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / Nobrow is a new concept, a new communicational phenomenon, a new aesthetics that characterizes the contemporary art and culture. It is a new moment in the cultura history of the XXI century. The term Nobrow refers to "highbrow" (a concept of art and literature, which characterizes them as "intellectualized, high-quality"), and "lowbrow" (that characterizes literature and art as with no connection or interest to serious cultural / intellectual ideas), so that it represents the concept of culture without a qualification of "lowbrow" or "highbrow", not specifically targeting a particular type of audience, or a specific area of knowledge. Nobrow is art without categorization. This research is based primarily on concepts and theories from John Seabrook and Peter Swirski, the only researchers on Nobrow, both of which having already legitimized its existence as more than simply reinterpretation of the concepts of highbrow and lowbrow, considering that these concepts gave life to the so-called hybrid works. Therefore, regarding Nobrow, it is the evolution of the hybrids originated from the interactivity characteristic of cyberculture. Secondarily, the research is fundamented on concepts of cyberculture, glocality and velocity from Baudrillard, Virilio and Trivinho. Internationalization and hybridism come from the ideas of Burke, Canclini and Canevacci; whereas theories of our era are handled by the visions of Augé, Bauman, Eagleton, Harvey, Jameson, Kumar, Lipovetsky and Lyotard. This Thesis examines this new Nobrow aesthetics, its scope and characteristics; investigating unclassifiable works and cultural movements of the twenty-first century that were influenced by cyberspace to check its belonging to Nobrow. To this end, the field research was developed both locally and internationally. It was necessary to interview artists, to analyze and compare works from different areas and different countries to demonstrate the essence of Nobrow, considering that it is the union of the world, of each work of art and each artist isolated locally on glocal bunkers; it is the internationalization of culture everywhere through cyberspace and through technology-based communication. Glocality brings us this globalization whilst we are isolated on it. Thus, the corpus of this research are works and/or movements from the visual arts, literature, performance arts and music. Their origins are from five different continents. By that, we intend to give adequate parameters to this century’s culture. Our society and culture are in a new phase, which no longer fits within the postmodernist’s definitions or any other. Nobrow is the name of this new era of non-absolute definitions, the “unclassifiablism”; it is the “post-postmodernism”. It is a worldwide phenomenon, a consequence of the lack of applicability of the old divisions of culture in highbrow and lowbrow. We must understand and accept the fact that these definitions as well as the naming of our Zeitgeist as “Postmodernism” or as anything else are outdated and no longer applicable to art and culture / Nobrow constitui novo conceito e, ao mesmo tempo, novo fenômeno comunicacional e nova estética da cultura e da arte contemporâneas. Como tal, implica um momento renovado na história da cultura do século XXI. Nobrow alude às expressões highbrow (que denomina as artes e a literatura, como “intelectuais” e “de alta qualidade”) e lowbrow (que caracteriza a literatura e as artes como sem conexão com ideias culturais “sérias”/“intelectuais”) de maneira a, com efeito, representar autonomamente o conceito de cultura sem remissão necessária a ambos os níveis (lowbrow ou highbrow), sem direcionamento específico a determinado tipo de público ou a determinada área de conhecimento. Nobrow corresponde à arte não categorizada. A presente pesquisa baseia-se, primordialmente, nas teorias e conceitos de John Seabrook e Peter Swirski, únicos pesquisadores sobre Nobrow, que já o legitimaram como mais do que mera releitura dos conceitos de alta e baixa cultura, uma vez que a mistura de ambas deu origem a obras chamadas de híbridas. Para além disso, Nobrow é o hibridismo proveniente da interatividade típica da cibercultura. Secundariamente, a pesquisa é fundamentada nas teorias de Baudrillard, Trivinho e Virilio, bem como nos conceitos de glocalidade e velocidade dos dois últimos autores, respectivamente. A tematização sobre a internacionalização e o hibridismo das culturas lastreia-se nas concepções de Burke, Canclini e Canevacci, enquanto a visão sobre a época contemporânea inspira-se nas obras de Anderson, Augé, Bauman, Eagleton, Harvey, Jameson, Kumar, Lipovetsky e Lyotard. A Tese analisa a nova estética Nobrow, sua abrangência e suas características, com foco em obras e movimentos culturais inclassificáveis do século XXI, influenciados, de algum modo, pelo ciberespaço. Especificamente, esse corpus abrange obras e/ou movimentos de autores das artes plásticas, da literatura, da performance e da música de cinco continentes diferentes. A investigação de campo se desenvolveu tanto em contexto local quanto no exterior. Foi necessário entrevistar artistas, analisar e comparar obras de diferentes áreas e de diferentes países para demonstrar os fundamentos do Nobrow, já que este é a união entre mundo, obra e cada artista isolado em bunkers glocais (nem locais nem globais), na internacionalização da cultura de todos os lugares através do ciberespaço e da comunicação proporcionada pela tecnologia. A glocalidade condiciona a mundialização das culturas ao mesmo tempo em que permanecemos isolados em contextos glocais. Com essas características, a Tese visa estabelecer parâmetros reflexivos mais adequados à natureza da cultura contemporânea, que se encontra em nova fase, por não se encaixar mais nas definições pós-modernistas e outras tantas. Nobrow é o nome desta nova era de definições não absolutas, o “inclassificalismo”; é o “pós-pós-modernismo”, um fenômeno mundial para além das antigas divisões da cultura em highbrow e lowbrow e consequente da defasagem de termos e sentidos. Conclusivamente, devemos compreender o fato de que tanto essas definições quanto qualquer denominação contemporânea de nosso Zeitgeist estão ultrapassadas, não sendo mais aplicáveis à arte e à cultura atuais