Regime de Informação: o caso do tráfico de armas de fogo no Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This dissertation is based on the assumption that information has played a fundamental role in the political actions of security appearing in this work as an element of power and control. In this way, it is sought to analyze the relations between information, power and Public Security, having as object of study the informational dynamics that take place in the arms trade, within the scope of the State of Rio de Janeiro. In order to achieve this objective, a methodological treatment was chosen, composed of the analysis of the Final Report of the CPI of the weapons of 2011, formulated by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio de Janeiro, bibliographical review, survey of material on the Internet, legislation, databases and analysis of the content of reports published in the mainstream media. The theoretical reference adopted counted on the production of González de Gómez, Braman and Frohmann, among others. With these resources, it was sought to capture not only the hegemonic positions but also the main information actions of the actors involved in the arms trafficking, analyzed from the point of view of the Information Regime. The analysis of information productions (information flows) signals the occurrence of a change in the role of information in public security policies, guided mainly by the appropriation of the new information media.