Redes sociais: um estudo exploratório sobre blogs de educação ambiental

Abstract

The idea of research is an interdisciplinary subject was proposed because the course of this Masters also be interdisciplinary. This study refers to a qualitative exploratory research on the impact and potential of the blog, whose theme is environmental education. This research proposes to investigate areas of "cyberspace" that increasingly favors the responsiveness that the other places would not be viable. These virtual spaces, blogs, initially created as a resource of support among journalists and as personal diary, have sho n a remarkable resource to discuss matters of collective interest and mobilization, moreover, has proved to be a very appropriate for the learning and knowledge dissemination. The investigation was held with the mapping of the best known Brazilian blogs on environmental education published in mainstream media (television, magazine, newspapers, etc..), The Internet and by professional experts on the subject: journalists, biologists and educators. This mapping we selected four (4) Brazilian blogs that address environmental education, they were: Blog Planet, Sustainable Planet Blog, Blog Do your part and Envolverde Blog. The research strategy adopted was a content analysis of records from the blogs. The results show the power of social networks in disseminating information about the environment and environmental education, and how to deal with the issues of the planet and the environment in social networks in several respects (climate change, environmental preservation, social consciousness, water , garbage, etc.), configuring itself as a valuable space for debate, social mobilization and collective knowledge construction. The theme (climate change) was the most talked about and discussed in blogs, that will converge to the main theme discussed at the meeting in Copenhagen, in December 2009.