Papers - Conference 2009 - Institute of Latin American Studies

other words, communities are created, even without dialogues, through the homogenization ofideologies, information and entertainment predilections.Therefore Internet is potentially the most effective deterritorialization medium once it can weakthe ties between culture and place through diverse ways of interaction. Moreover, Internet hasother advantages over other media in such process as its speed (in locating a determined contentthrough web search engines ), relative low cost in the content exposition and consumption aswell as lack of geographical and- most of the times- legal limits in practical ways. However whatcould be seen as a rather democratic utopia on worldwide communications has its setbacks. Incountries as Brazil, Internet still being an exclusiveness of upper classes households 16 due highcomputer and connection prices 17 , moreover – according to data from Comitê Gestor daInformática no Brasil 18 – until 2006 more than a half of Brazilian population (66.68%) havenever used Internet, depending on social class and age group.16 See charter “Percentage of Brazilian residences with different medium access by social class in 2006” on page 12.17 About 70% of Brazilian low, low-middle and middle class that do not have internet connection at home say thatcomputers’ prices are too high. Comitê Gestor da Informática no Brasil, TIC Domicilios e Usuarios, 2006.http://www.cetic.br/usuarios/tic/2006/index.htm . Accessed on May 3 rd 2009.18 Comitê Gestor da Informática no Brasil, TIC Domicilios e Usuarios, 2006.http://www.cetic.br/usuarios/tic/2006/index.htm . Accessed on May 3 rd 2009.15