Um jeito amazônida de ser mundo. A Amazônia como metáfora do ecossistema comunicacional: uma leitura do conceito a partir da região

Abstract

This thesis presents an interdisciplinary interpretation of the concept of Communicational Ecosystem taking the Amazon as an explanatory metaphor for what triggers theoretical frameworks that converge to a complex and new paradigmatic approach to knowledge production and dialogical postures in dealing with the relations between the local and the universal. The argumentation comes from a recovery of the concept of Communicational Ecosystem institutionalized in the Brazilian academic research and it is appropriated in the communicational field in the Amazon under proper interpretation keys. From this, the proposal by which the concept refers to the multiplicities that traverse the human being, the nature and the technical means of communication and information that completely comprise the Communicational Ecosystem are organized in this thesis. This thesis is about an ecosystem approach that considers corporeality of relations and subjectivities driven in society, taking them as inseparable instances amplified by technologies that extend human innervations beyond the corporeal boundaries. At this point, the experiences of Amerindian populations, especially indigenous peoples of Amazonia and traditional communities of the region, which have different relation with the environment, comparing with westerner communities, are the point of contact between the concept and the everyday common practices: the Amazon, being a region of the planet where it is clearly perceived the recursive relationships between humans, nature, and - by the increasing presence - information and communication technologies, it becomes explanatory metaphor of the Communicational Ecosystem