Um tiro no escuro: as estratégias e incertezas da inclusão digital no Brasil

• Ano de defesa: 2005
• Autor(a) principal: Brito, Paulo Jorge Leal de
• Orientador(a): Baitello Junior, Norval
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Comunicação e Semiótica
• Departamento: Comunicação
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: computadores e comunicação; computadores e sociedade; inclusão digital; determinismo tecnológico; informática e educação; Internet - Aspectos sociais; Tecnologia da informação
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Internet; computers and communication; digital divide; technological determinism; computers and society; computers in education
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/4812

This study aimed to investigate, in the available contemporary literature, the digital bridging in general, and specifically the access possibilities of brazilian citizens to new communication technologies the existence of such possibilities classifies an individual as digitally included . The study started with those theories that explain inclusion and exclusion. Digital exclusion (or digital divide), a set of interdictions that block the access of individuals to modern resources of digital communication, was found inside the social exclusion, and was studied so. The research on the subject regarding Brazil was performed preliminarily with some of the few works that were found on the theme, and then with the help of data surveys of IBGE on the possession of microcomputers, telephone lines and the availability of internet access, regarding not only individuals but households as well. Among our conclusions, we should remark these: 1) Brazil is needing more studies on this subject, since we found a good number of research on digital bridging in other languages and based on other countries but just a few in portuguese and regarding Brazil; 2) The main digital bridging actions have been done without any further assessment, what means that its results remain unknown; thus, it is impossible to tell if the knowledge acquired during these actions changes culture and behavior of an individual, turning him into an included in the digital communication world