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Ética da informação e os desvios do contrato social

2024; Gabinete de Estudos a&b; CETAC.MEDIA; Issue: 21 Linguagem: Inglês

10.21747/21836671/pag21a1

2183-6671

Camila Costa, Aureste Lima, Arthur Coelho Bezerra,

Education and Digital Technologies

Reflections in the field of information ethics have gained more and more importance for going through discussions that reflect various aspects of daily life in today’s society. This paper aims to discuss the dilemma of the State, in its ethical expression, in the treatment of the informational question. It is argued that the State, in its current evolution admitted by society, as a political apparatus based on a social contract of enlightenment heritage must have in the common good its horizon, genuine reason for democracy. In this sense, informational policies and actions admitted and exchanged by the State must never run away fromitsdemocratic vocation. It is under this precept that the public ethics of information is defended in this work; an ethics committed to the emancipation that is given by the knowledge invoked by information and whose practical assimilation is a challenge within the state of neoliberal contours like Brazil of recent years.