Discursos da rua e o homem público na sociedade midiática

Abstract

The essay discusses the possible appearance of disruptive practices of citizenship in Brazil or the strengthening of brazilians friendly character. The analysis articulates the way that independent social movements works nowadays with the history of public space development in Brazil. These social movements question the relation amongst public administration, individual and city. For this purpose, it was used, mainly, the concepts of brazilian citizenship in DaMatta (1986, 1997), the “friendly man” in Buarque de Holanda (1995), and the proposition of public man in Sennett (1998). The article highlights ambivalences of these movements that blend public and private spaces and that even located at the modus operandi of productiveness, show possible interstices where a new way of acting in public can lead to new forms of social interaction in the media society which we live.