Andreza Santos’s online PhD defense takes place on the 7th February, at 2:30 p.m., with the topic Relations between Resilience, Literacy and Digital Inclusion of Information Technology Students in Brazil | Relações entre Resiliência, Literacia e Inclusão Digital de Estudantes de Tecnologia da Informação no Brasil.
Andreza Santos is a student of the PhD programme in Multimedia in Education and her supervisor is Ana Margarida Almeida (DigiMedia, UA).
DigiMedia members are invited to participate in this important moment.
Abstract:
Brazil is a country that presents numerous social and economic contrasts and, despite the technological evolution and the increasing access to the Internet, presents many challenges regarding digital inclusion. This work has as main objective to investigate possible correlations between sociodemographic variables, digital inclusion and resilience of Information Technology students aged 15 to 23 years, who entered technical courses at a Brazilian university. We sought to understand whether greater digital literacy provides an increase in the resilience of youth, as well as to know, through the new resilience measure CYRM-19-Br (Child and Youth Resilience Measure in the Brazilian version), the resilience strategies adopted by them. This is a mixed-methods, exploratory and descriptive research. The following strategies were used for data collection: bibliographic study, survey by online questionnaire and by interview. For data collection, an online questionnaire was applied to a probabilistic sample of 192 youth studying in the city of Natal, located in northeastern Brazil. The instrument is composed of a set of closed questions related to socio-demographic aspects, inclusion and digital literacy, in addition to the resilience measurement scale CYRM-19-Br. The interview script, answered by 6 students, aimed to deepen the perceptions about the answers given in the online questionnaire. For the statistical analysis were used the programs SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), R and Minitab, while the analysis of the open answers was done through Content Analysis. The results show that: youth with higher digital literacy are more resilient; almost all students have a smartphone; more than half of them have wi-fi at home; only 16.15% presented low literacy and 38.54% presented high literacy; sociodemographic variables (such as type of school, age group, gender and family income) are not predictors for digital literacy; support networks and resources are shown to be important for the development of resilience and digital inclusion. It is expected that the results may: guide institutional actions that promote the resilience of students, reducing school dropout; strengthen international collaboration through research efforts; subsidize, at macro level, public policies to promote the psychosocial well-being of young people in the city of Natal.
To participate follow the link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/82225117483
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