%0 Journal Article %T Reflex£¿es epistemol¨®gicas no contexto do Orkut: ¨¦tica da informa£¿£¿o, sociabilidade, liberdade e identidade %A Bezerra %A Marcos Antonio Alexandre %A Ara¨²jo %A Eliany Alvarenga de %J Perspectivas em Ci¨ºncia da Informa£¿£¿o %D 2011 %I Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais %R 10.1590/S1413-99362011000200005 %X 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 environment 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 informa£¿£¿o, liberty and information, sociability and identity, we answer this question. %K ethic of information %K epistemology of information science %K orkut-sociability %K information and liberty. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1413-99362011000200005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en