Charge política como representatividade da sociedade da informação e ferramenta da compreensão da informação pública.

Abstract

The present research aims to analyze the extent to which political cartoons can be considered a tool that facilitates the understanding, on the part of the citizen, of the pertinent information to the Public Administration that, on several occasions, are incomprehensible to that person and, once better understood, may to awaken critical awareness, in a Society of Spectacle, in which the primacy of images lives and presents the internet as a means of accessing information, a symbol of the change that comes from the Information Society. However, practice has shown that human beings do not participate in public debates because they do not have sufficient knowledge about matters of public interest. Although the Public Administration disseminates the information, it is complex and difficult to understand. Thus, as a problem of the present essay text, we will try to answer, to what extent from the Theories of Guy Debord and Vargas Llosa, having the so-called Society of the Spectacle as an element of the Information Society, political cartoons are a facilitating tool the citizen's understanding of the information pertinent to the Public Administration, which, on several occasions, is incomprehensible to that person and, once better understood, can awaken critical awareness? Therefore, the general objective of this work is to demonstrate that political cartoons are a tool that facilitates the understanding, on the part of the citizen, of the pertinent information to the Public Administration, which, on several occasions, is incomprehensible to that person and, once better understood, may awaken critical awareness. The proposed theme is in line with the Program's research line, which is Contemporary Constitutionalism, through which it aims to understand the constitutional phenomenon in its aspect of legal consolidation of guarantees of a highly complex society committed to the well-being of its members. members. The study is associated with the researcher's line of research, as it examines the legal relations between Fundamental Rights and the Information Society under the bias of Constitutional Law, as well as the use of public apparatus by that same society to achieve its own goals, in the construction of an increasingly free and democratic society. The method of approach employed is the deductive one; the method of procedure used is the monographic. In terms of research technique, indirect documentation will be used, through bibliographic research to be carried out in books, scientific articles, journals. In addition to the analysis of the daily content of political cartoons in the online newspapers Folha de São Paulo (www.folha.com.br) and Estadão (www.estadao.com.br) in the six-month period, from April to September 2019. Thus , considering that information is an important instrument of access to knowledge, inherent to the Information Society, the Public Administration when disclosing its information does not always do it in a clear way, making it impossible for human beings to understand it. For this reason, the discussion proves that political cartoons are a tool that facilitates the understanding, on the part of the citizen, of public information that is often incomprehensible to the citizen and, once better understood, may awaken critical awareness.