Democracy after the Internet : Brazil between facts, norms, and code / Samantha S. Moura Ribeiro.
2016
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Title
Democracy after the Internet : Brazil between facts, norms, and code / Samantha S. Moura Ribeiro.
Published
Switzerland : Springer, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Call Number
JL2481 .M68 2016
ISBN
9783319335926
3319335928
3319335928
Description
223 pages ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)945949293
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of Contents
1.
Introduction
1
References
9
pt. I
Internet, Democracy, and Brazil
2.
Contextualizing What Changes
13
2.1.
Utopian Versus Dystopian
13
2.2.
Critical Realistic Analysis
15
2.2.1.
Assumption of Increased Political Participation
15
2.2.2.
Problems of Individualization, Alienation and Fragmentation
17
2.2.3.
Polarization
18
2.3.
Power Shifts
21
2.4.
Commodification of the Internet: From Barlow to Zittrain
23
References
30
3.
Theoretical Framework: An Excursus
33
3.1.
On Habermas's Theory of Law and Democracy
33
3.1.1.
Democracy Around Discourse
35
3.1.2.
Categories of Rights
38
3.2.
Co-originality and Interdependence of Private and Public Autonomy
40
3.2.1.
Perspective of Developmental Autonomy as a Normative Ideal
42
3.2.2.
Few Criticisms: The Inexistence of Habermas's Autonomous Actors
43
3.2.3.
Honneth's Moral Grammar: A Step Forward
46
3.3.
Reciprocal Recognition as a Basic Requirement of the Legal-Political Order and Its Main Aspects
49
3.4.
Law as a Vector of Social Integration and Reproduction
52
3.5.
Habermas Within the Scope of the Present Study
55
3.6.
Importance of Narrowing the Analysis to One Constitutional State
56
References
60
4.
Brazilian Constitutional State
63
4.1.
Rise of the 1988 Brazilian Democratic Constitution: The Social-Political Context
63
4.1.1.
Brief of the History of Citizenship in Brazil: We, the Brazilian People
64
4.1.2.
Some Notes on the National Constituent Assembly
74
4.1.3.
Citizenship in the 1988 Constitution
76
4.2.
Habermas and the Brazilian Constitution: The Link Between Communicative and Administrative Powers
78
4.3.
Brief Notes on the Concepts of Formal Constitution and Material Constitution
81
4.3.1.
1988 Brazilian Constitution: Nominal or Normative?
83
4.4.
Application and Interpretation of the 1988 Constitution: The Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF)
86
References
94
pt. II
Virtualized Constitutional Democracy in Brazil
5.
Brazil Accessing the Internet: First Steps
99
5.1.
National Broadband Plan (PNBL)
102
5.2.
Main Problems Regarding the Implementation of the PNBL
103
5.3.
NIC. Br and the Technical Initiatives
105
References
106
6.
Map of Online Brazil
107
6.1.
Surveys and Analyses of the Use of ICT in Brazil
107
6.1.1.
ICT Households
109
6.1.2.
ICT LAN Houses
112
References
114
7.
Online Empowerment: Building Self-Esteem, Recognition and Citizenship
117
7.1.
Digital Divide
117
7.2.
Individual Experiences and New Links
124
7.3.
Definition of Community
126
7.4.
Internet's Potential for Individual Empowerment
128
7.5.
Internet Empowerment of the Socially Excluded in Brazil
131
7.5.1.
Internet in Favelas or Favelas on the Internet: Discourses
132
7.5.2.
Internet Changing the Construction of Self-Images: Visual Debates
137
7.5.3.
Collaborative and Disputed Construction of Identities and Demands
139
7.5.4.
Internet Transforming the Potentials of the Self
144
References
148
8.
Legitimacy
151
8.1.
Democratic Deficit: Self-Determination
153
8.2.
Prohibition Versus Impossibility or Autonomy Versus Virtual Paternalism
154
8.3.
Force of Law Determined by Code
155
8.4.
Regulation of Code
156
References
158
9.
Internet Regulation in Brazil: Legal Tools and Proposals
159
9.1.
Bill 84/99: Democratic Implications of Internet Regulation in the Public Debate
159
9.1.1.
November 2012: Different Laws Approved
161
9.2.
Law 12.965/2014: The Brazilian Internet Bill of Rights
163
9.2.1.
Procedure
163
9.2.2.
Content
166
9.3.
Law on Access to Information (LAI)
176
References
179
10.
Bridging Empowerment and Legitimacy
181
10.1.
Constitutional Rights Adapting to Online Interactions
181
10.1.1.
Right to Internet Access
182
10.1.2.
Freedom of Expression and Its Limits
186
10.1.3.
Copyrights Reform: A Democratic Necessity
200
10.2.
Networked Communicative Power
206
References
212
11.
Closing Remarks: Legitimacy from Legality to Code and Back
215
References
223