Ação "pela" e "na" internet: impactos dos usos das novas tecnologias de comunicação e informação nas ações políticas do movimento LGBT brasileiro

Abstract

Given the significant presence of the New Technologies of Information and Communication (NTICs), especially the Internet, in everyday movement groups LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, and Transgender) Brazil, this study sought to answer the following questions: what impacts of the jobs (NTICs) bring to the organizational dynamics of the movement? Which digital social media are used, how, when and with what purposes are employed? What repertoires of action provides the use of internet? What "routines" of action existing in cyberspace? What results bring to the political action of the movement? Therefore, the methodology used were semi-structured interviews with representatives of LGBT groups that are part of the Brazilian Association of Lesbian, Gay, and Transgender (ABGLT) and readings of websites and blogs entities. The internet, as it serves as a means and space for political action, offers some repertoires of action. Such repertoires imply routines that take place "by" internet due to the fact the groups to use as a means of action, and "on" the Internet, given that some routines happen in cyberspace. Through research, we identified two repertoires offered by cyberspace. The first is the repertoire of online mobilization, in which the militants through routines as leafleting action online, online undersigned, public petitions, twitaço have reached and mobilized the LGBT community and the general public about its activities. The second is the repertoire of online interaction. The facebook, blogs, websites, e-mail are configured as resources by which groups can echo their values, concerns and interests. These media are also spaces where groups interact with their target audience, supporters, groups of the LGBT movement and its partners, such as other social movements, parliamentarians, international organizations. The repertoire of online interaction for the LGBT movement brings impacts on relations with groups of your audience and the general population. Unlike says that part of the literature on participation, new forms of activism and the internet, over the LGBT movement, interaction established through the use of new information and communication technologies has resulted in the creation of new bonds in significant changes in interpersonal relationships and commitments that generate participation offline. This changes are linked to a specific characteristic of the movement, difficult challenge its audience, and to break the dichotomy between "inside" and "outside" of the cabinet provided by the use of resources cyberspace.