Cibercultura: estudo sobre consumo de entretenimento na internet

Abstract

The present work seeks to provide an overview about the consumption of entertainment on the internet. The concept of entertainment is linked to the idea of creative industries, discussed in the initial part of this work. A survey, carried out in an online questionnaire, was carried out with a total of 240 respondents. The themes Internet and society; Creative industries and Entertainment have their concepts as the theoretical basis of this work. The answers to the questionnaire used to obtain the data were tabulated and analyzed, where the interpretation is found in the data analysis section. It was possible to find several consumption patterns in the sample, giving opportunity for other research, as well as providing the information needed to solve the problem of work. The questionnaire sought to understand respondents' demographic data, internet usage characteristics, patterns of entertainment consumption, and the relation between money and the consumption of this content, taking into account the four proposed specific objectives. The pattern found signaled a strong tendency to use mobile platforms for the use of the internet, in the area of comic entertainment, seeking psychological relaxation. Other factors were observed, which demonstrate trends of the users, being these belonging to a sample of young people, of average family wage range and active in the job market.