Wi-fi na Floresta: uma comunidade rural amazônica em redes e as mudanças no espaço de sociabilidade

Abstract

This ethnographic research investigates the changes in the sociability spaces of the amazonian rural community of Caburi, situated in a 400km distance of Manaus, in the brazilian state of Amazonas. The study intended to understand how the interaction in this community's social spaces happened by the means of WiFi technologies, and how they work in the digital squares (praças digitais) in the urban area of Parintins. It's a traditional rural brazilian community space, which challenges the difficulties of a connection with the city, and with the citizens process of recognizing themselves as brazilians. The thesis suggestions, as a theme, how devices connected to wireless internet, the community's WiFi, allowed the resetting of the communication dynamics of the rural communities closer to urban areas, modifying the ways of connection of riverine communities with the city, at the same time that they use internet to stronger it's way of life and the traditional relationships to meet their collectivity requirements. Another important verification was that this new digital condition makes the citizens perceive the community's space as a city space , specially the younger ones, because of the possibilities of communicating with the city of Parintins, in other times restricted to the streaming of warnings by the radio in the urban area. The hiypothesis is sustained by evidences that the citizens of this community started to exchange public information, mainly by WhatsApp groups, where now people report the failures of the government in the public sector, and also daily life facts. It is by this app that citizens make grids to enhance the collaboration between fiends and relatives to mutually help solving their problems. That's how it is possible to see the fragmented and fluid sight of the community, and it is where they are in they grids