A internet como ferramenta de participação social: uma análise das mobilizações para preservação do Centro Histórico de Santo Ângelo - RS.

Abstract

The research undertaken here is a case study of the process of patrimonialization of the Historic Centre of Santo Ângelo – RS, in which a community, mostly based on the city, had used the internet as a way to mobilize action with the intent of preserve their past. As theoretical basis of this study are used theories of Tornatore, about ways to the process of patrimonialization integrates the communities, of Prats, about the social agents that are involved in this process and the mercantilization of cultural heritage, and also researches about cyber culture, democracy and mobilization of civil society with the use of internet. The main goal of this research is to understand how the mobilization of communities, maximized by the use of the internet, influences the recognition process and consequent patrimonialization a cultural object, having as a object of analysis the case of the Historic Centre of Santo Ângelo – RS, the community involved, and state regulations that appear there. The methodology used in this research was is the case study, analysing interference data of people movement of civil society input, observing the Facebook group “Defenda Santo Ângelo! Quero nossa História Viva!”. The group is analysed in 4 periods, in accordance with an analysis of the main facts of the heritage process, organized and diagrammed in this study. Therefore, 4 periods were analysed: 1) the month of September 2011, when the group was created; 2) May and August 2012, from the organization of the petition, until the date when the provisional tipping is postulated by Iphae; 3) August and September 2013, period marked by the Crosses’ Protest and the public hearing held in the city; 4) and between October and November 2013, when Iphae notifies the listing and, lastly, do not promulgate this act, moving to the municipal government the task of organizing a heritage preservation law. This 4 categories were used to analyse the case: 1) actions of the process x discussions in the group, studying with what is happening in the process becomes a subject discussed by the group; 2) active members x observers, observing if the mayor part of the members of the group is active in the discutions; 3) active online x present in actions, relating the number of people that are in the groups that are active in social actions promoted by the group; 4) posted subjects x likes, seeking to understang which kind of subject generates greater impact within the group, if are comments about the process, whether they are images of Santo Ângelo, whether they are reports of cases of neglect of heritage, among others.