Conexões ecossistêmicas-amazônicas: as tecnologias da comunicação na vida dos indígenas do Alto Rio Negro, AM

Abstract

The advancement of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) since the 1960s has transformed society and the way it organizes itself. The arrival of networked computers and the Internet has revolutionized the way we communicate and think. We watch and live a new era of communication and information. Services were automated, conversations and human relations migrated to the online and are increasingly mediated by machines, social networks began to dictate actions in the real world, especially in politics. Over the last decades, this phenomenon has become increasingly common and accessible, as in the Amazon rainforest and forest and indigenous peoples. Based on this scenario, this research presents the relationships between ICTs and the indigenous peoples of Alto Rio Negro, a region of the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, in the northwest of Amazonas. How Internet access is given, the uses of the network by the indigenous people; the use of the indigenous language in the communication through the technologies, their opinion about the technologies in the daily life of its people are some questions that this research sought to investigate. To answer the questions were interviewed 20 indigenous people aged between 18 and 42 years who live in communities of the Upper Rio Negro. In addition, this research is based on the ecosystem perspective or, here defined as Communication Ecosystems - a vision proposed in the Postgraduate Program in Communication Sciences (PPGCCOM) that seeks to look at Amazonian man as part of the environment in which he lives, without to separate it from nature and the elements that surround it, and that sees communication in this space as a complex process due to the exchanges that occur in the environment with countless elements that interfere in the communicational process.