Análise dos riscos e efeitos nocivos do uso da internet: contribuições para uma política pública de proteção da criança e do adolescente na era digital

Abstract

The use of internet and on-line video games, in harmony with other human activities, irrespective of the technological device to access, can be addictive and cause adverse effects in various aspects of life of users, potentiated when the users are children and adolescents people in particular phase of biopsychosocial development. The focus of research on the agenda was the analysis of the risks and vice damage, assuming the full protection of children and adolescents in the aspects of education, health and security. Therefore, we sought theoretical references in scientific papers at the global level, empirical evidence on field research with adolescents, and internet Dependent Parent Program Dependence Center for the Impulse Disorder Clinic at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo. As children and adolescents are subjects of rights, with priority protection, felt the need for an intervention, and for this have been proposed content and planning methodologies prevention policies to such risks and damage, prepared in inter-institutional and interdisciplinary way. The scientific method used was the policy action research, socially critical and interventionist. For theoretical foundation sought to subsidies in the critical analysis of technological determinism and the risks involved with the design and use of technologies Feenberg (1991), Giddens (1991), Marcuse (1999), Lima Filho (2004, 2005), Andrade (2004) Setzer (2002, 2009), Armstrong and Casement (2001), Smith (2009), among others. The research used a legal basis documents, with support in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil (1988) and the Statute of Children and Adolescents (1990), who prioritize in terms absolute, children and adolescents in the design and management of public policies for all enforcement spheres. In phases of observation, diagnosis and first records research came from concern about the speech of adolescents from two public schools in Curitiba, in 2009, when the problem of this thesis was designed, the risks and harmful effects of adding internet and electronic games on-line. For the research intervention phase was prepared an action plan in inter-institutional focused on the “Technology and Human Dignity” axis developed in the eleven public hearings in the State of Paraná, coordinated by the author, contemplating structuring content for development of policy public prevention addiction on the Internet, and especially the internet gaming disorder, mental disorder provided by the American Psychiatric Association in the fifth edition of Diagnostical and Statistical Manual of Disorder (DSM V), May 2013. This work resulted in important contributions to the development axis “Technology and Human Dignity” of the first edition of the State Plan for Education in Human Rights of Paraná (PEEDH / PR).