COMUNIDADE VIRTUAL E COMUNICAÇÃO: O site da Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Valcenir do Vale
• Data de Publicação: 2003
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/742
• topic: comunicação; internet; comunidade virtual; apoio; informação; relacionamento; communication; internet; virtual community; support; information; relationship; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO

The development of new technologies of communication and information does not represent just a new way of forwarding informational contents to people. As it reflects in new possibilities of acting at distance, allowed by the interacting media on line, one perceives a significant change in the behavioral posing of people in their interaction in basic social relations. There is a transformation taking place in the concept of community once the new and coming up communication, due to the nowadays technological scenario, comes to abide with traditional ways of community. This metamorphosis would be the product of a trying of aggregation of social practices taken into effect within the so called virtual communities which carry with themselves a new dynamic of acting at distance disjoint of the immediate social context. Through the methodology of case study, one looked for to know how the coabiding of traditional and emergent forms of community are living together and inter acting. Besides, one looked for to know which results are got from the informational and relational changes occurred in the cyber space. The investigation took place from a case study of a Seventh Day Adventist Church site in which interviews, direct observation and shared observation were used as sources of evidence. The results got from the investigation suggest that the corporeal being wishes to live within a new environment ruled by the digital fluidity, because this is posed as a way in which the informational changes come into an effective and responsive way, while in the social relationships they can be enhanced, confirmed and kept.