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| Author(s): |
Aracele Lima Torres
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2014-01-17 |
| Examining board members: |
Francisco Assis de Queiroz;
Rafael de Almeida Evangelista;
Gildo Magalhães dos Santos Filho
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| Advisor: | Francisco Assis de Queiroz |
| Abstract | |
Over the past historical periods the technique has played an important role in the formulation of social demands. People always placed in the technologies their expectations and desires of constructing a different reality. The same thing has happened recently with digital technologies. Many social groups rely on technology as an enabling mechanism for a fairer and more democratic society, where the knowledge is unrestricted and widely available. In this work, we use a historical perspective to present a contemporary debate on digital technologies as emancipatory instruments. For that purpose, we investigated the GNU Project - an outstanding free software movement initiated by Richard Stallman in the 1980s - because of its long-term strive not only for a free computer science but also for free knowledge. We consider the GNU Project one of the main representatives of the current expectations of digital technologies as enabling mechanisms for a better society. We investigated the characteristics of GNU Projects speech and we tried to understand how it has been built over the time, as well as social practices which accompany individuals and what are its carriers. We identified, in the discourse, historically mobilizing keywords which may be used by both left- and right-wing groups. Furthermore, by positioning itself as a political project aimed to develop a diferente society, the GNU Project and its free software crusade are legitimate representatives of a true modern utopia. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/02941-1 - Technology for intelligence and freedom: a history about the GNU Project and the defense of free knowledge in the context of digital technologies |
| Grantee: | Aracele Lima Torres |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |