Tensions between public and private in the digital age

Since they came up, accusations of espionage in the United States have raised a number of issues regarding the boundaries between public and private in the context of new information technologies and communication. In order to discuss some of the aspects covered by the theme, the IEA will carry out a debate entitled ‘Política e Comunicação: a Dicotomia Público/Privado na Era da Cultura Digital’ (‘Politics and Communication: the Public/Private Dichotomy in the Age of Digital Culture’) on October 2, at 3 pm.

Organized by anthropologist Massimo Canevacci and sociologist Bernardo Sorj, both visiting professors at the IEA, the meeting will focus on four key issues:

What are the implications of monitoring systems that collect data from citizens, companies and countries, including information of private nature, and place them at the service of corporations and states?

How do new information systems affect international relations?

Which mechanisms should be mobilized to protect citizens and countries from permanent surveillance?

What are the results of digital reification and visual fetishes that penetrate the body-mind of whom participates actively,  occasionally or creatively in this process?

Besides Canevacci and Sorj, journalist and economist Gilson Schwartz, professor of USP’s School of Communication and Arts (ECA) and former visiting professor at IEA, and Sérgio Amadeu da Silveira, professor at the Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), will also attend the meeting.

The event will be broadcast live from IEA's Event Room at www.iea.usp.br/aovivo.