DIGITAL DEMOCRACY AND ECOLOGICAL LITERACY: ACTION-RESEARCH METHODOLOGICAL DESIGN THROUGH THE PROTEC ARARIPE POPULAR INITIATIVE

Abstract

This article presents the methodological design of a social experiment structured from the perspective of action-research, designed to evaluate the impact of digital democracy on ecological literacy and the transition to the biocentric paradigm. The intervention utilizes the proposal of the "PROTEC Araripe" climate protection law on the e-Cidadania portal as an instrument for mobilization and literacy. The protocol establishes the hypothesis that participatory legislative processes generate a measurable increase in environmental awareness, functioning as a "modulating environment" of social perception. To test it, a mixed methodology is outlined: the qualitative collection of digital interactions and the lexical analysis processed by the IRAMUTEQ software. The article details the Descending Hierarchical Classification protocols, safeguards against digital noise, and the reflective research cycle, consolidating a replicable model for investigating citizenship as a vector for planetary health.