Análise da rede de atores na trajetória de implantação de lan houses no Brasil e seu possível papel de agente propiciador de inclusão digital

Resumo

Lan House, which appeared in Brazil as a place of entertainment, became in a short time, an entrepreneurship fever in the outskirts of large cities. The Brazilian Lan House phenomenon is in part a side effect of a federal government programme called 'computers for all', as part of a political public of digital inclusion. Thus, Lan Houses have featured as key locations for access to the worldwide computer for thousands of Brazilians who had no access to the Internet until the Lan Houses came into existence. They represent the second leading provider of public access to ICT in the country (CETIC, 2010). Due to this, the objective of this study is to describe the trajectory of Lan Houses’implementation, by theoretical perspective of Actor-Network Theory, identifying the relevant actors of a sociotechnical network. In order to analyze this, a single case study explanatory methodology was adopted, based on a Lan House at Jardim Catarina, São Gonçalo ( Rio de Janeiro). The research also presents a heuristic model of digital inclusion to understand if this kind of establishment presents some main facets considered key success factors to promote digital inclusion. The result of this analysis points out that the Lan House is not a digital inclusion agent, despite its relevance to the regions with lower rates of income and, therefore, restricted to the use of computers and Internet, as the Jardim Catarina is.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Dissertação

Ano

2012

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/9960

Temas

Tecnologia

Palavras-chave

Teoria ator-redeInclusão digitalActor-network theoryDigital inclusionLan houseAdministração de empresasRedes locais sem fioRedes locais de computação