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REFLECTIONS ON PEOPLE’S WORKING VERSUS NON-WORKING TIME AND CONNECTIVITY: SOME EXPERIENCES FROM BRAZIL
REFLEXÕES SOBRE PESSOAS NO TRABALHO VERSUS TEMPO FORA DO TRABALHO E CONECTIVIDADE: ALGUMAS EXPERIÊNCIAS DO BRASIL
Jorge Tenório Fernando
Leonardo Nelmi Trevisan
Ladislau Dowbor
This paper aims to discuss the use of working and non-working time and introduces the concept of “cognitive surplus” to debate how people can employ part of their free time connecting with others to support activities of common interest. With examples from Brazil, we advocate that internet connection can be a powerful tool for people to communicate, share and build information collectively, and suggest valuing free time similarly to the way it is done with working time. However, on the negative side, connectivity also encompasses a feature of social control mechanism through an increasing use of the “information panopticon”, and “big other” phenomena which could affect human action through a machine dominance over important activities in people’s lives, in and out of work.
