Reflections of Epistemology in the context Orkut: Ethics of Information, Sociability, Freedom and Identity

Abstract

In the field of the Science Information, even facing the advances around the ethic discussions, of social responsibility, little has been discussed about the internet and social virtual nets from an ethic perspective. In the text, the main objective makes a reflection about the Orkut, with the virtual and informational context. We cannot be said safely, that we know all the ethic, politic, and cultural consequences of this informational envi-ronment in the reality. This text aims to generate a reflection from the following a question: One virtual and informational context (in our case, the Orkut) can be news epistemological bases for the Information Science? The concepts of Informação, liberty and information, sociability and identity, we answer this question.