Citizenship and Social Policies Research Group Seminar
Participation Technologies and Information Technologies: A research agenda proposition

Júlio Cesar Andrade de Abreu

March 24th, 2009, 17:00, CES Seminar Room

 
Presentation
This seminar, developed within Citizenship and Social Policies Research Group, has for aim to rouse debate and reflection within the CES community regarding the possibilities and limits of ICT (information and communications technologies) usage, specially the internet, in participatory processes, as well as its real capacity towards the contribution to social emancipation. At stake, which are the potentialities and limits of the use of internet in participatory experiences. With a debate permeated by the gramschian regard, we seek to examine to what extent participation technologies (such as the participatory budget) held as high intensity democratic experiences, may suffer reconfigurations concerning its counter-hegemonic character whilst being “virtualized” (such as the digital participatory budget). It is the belief that this seminar may contribute towards the proposition of a critical research agenda on this thematic involving popular participation and the processes of hegemony and counter-hegemony.

 
Biographic Note
Júlio Cesar Andrade de Abreu is an active supporter of social movements. Expert on Popular Organizations, Social Movements and Participatory Democracy (UFMG) and a masters student in Administration at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Presently he is carrying out a sandwich study period at the Centre for Social Studies under the guidance of Professor José Manuel Mendes and is a Ford Foundation International Grantee.

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