The Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet

Contributions of public consultations for the debate

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.2593

Keywords:

The Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet, Online public consultations, Democracy and deliberation

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the debate surrounding the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet in media and the National Congress based on online public consultations promoted on the subject. Content analysis of 2,095 comments posted to the forum that hosted the consultations, 4,177 tweets, 575 newspaper stories and 175 parliamentary speeches was carried out. The aim is to understand “share meanings” during the consultations and shared in other deliberative spaces. As a result, we emphasize that positions developed at the time of the consultations had significant repercussions in journalism and in Congress. In our view, that demonstrates a broad democratic-deliberative potential of online consultations.

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Letícia Capone, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

PhD in Social Communication, with an emphasis on Political Communication, by the Postgraduate Program in Social Communication at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.

Arthur Ituassu, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Associate Professor of Political Communication at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Dr. in International Relations (IRI). Associate Researcher at the Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology for Digital Democracy (INCT-DD). 

Vivian Mannheimer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Ph.D. student of the Graduate Program in Communication at PUC-Rio, with an emphasis on Political Communication.

Caroline Pecoraro, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Ph.D. student of the Graduate Program in Communication at PUC-Rio, with an emphasis on Political Communication.

Sergio Lifschitz, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Associate Professor of the Department of Informatics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Río de Janeiro. Dr. in Informatics by the École Nationale Supérieure des Telécommunications (ENST Paris)

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23-11-2022

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Capone, L., Ituassu, A., Mannheimer, V., Pecoraro, C., & Lifschitz, S. (2022). The Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet: Contributions of public consultations for the debate. E-Compós, 25. https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.2593

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Vol. 25 (2022): E-Compós 2022

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