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2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilda Olinto ◽  
Sonoe Sugahara Pinheiro ◽  
Nadia Bernuci dos Santos

This article focuses on gender differences in Internet use in Brazil and how it is changing over time, considering its interplay with other environmental and social conditions. Initially, we consider evidence and theoretical approaches of women’s detachment from technology. We then look at data obtained from the 2005 and 2015 Brazilian Bureau of Census Annual Surveys. The results indicate that Internet use grew substantially in the country, but a large portion of the population is still segregated from it. The results also show that some social conditions for Internet use seem to have decreased their impact; however, in 2015 these factors still show a strong effect on the use of this technology. Insofar as gender is concerned, the analyses of its interplay with environmental and social conditions, and its change over time, bring about intriguing, albeit positive results: Women seemed to have transitioned from a slightly inferior to a somewhat better position relative to men.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Chibás Ortiz ◽  
Efrain Pantaleón Matamoros ◽  
Wânia Torres ◽  
Rachel Fischer

Two renowned Cuban scientists and professors who arrived in Brazil in the last decade of the last century, completed their doctorates at USP and expanded their professional achievements in the country, share in a relaxed way their knowledge and experiences about Science, Technology, Communication and Ethics in the times of COVID-19 in Latin America. One of them from the Exact Sciences area, Efrain Pantaleón Matamoros; and the other from Social Sciences, Felipe Chibás Ortiz. The views of these two Latin American researchers - who have previously written an article together on Innovation Management - now speak of these themes from the perspectives of different sciences, in an enriching way – relevant to the context of the ‘new-normal’ during the times of Covid-19. This article, presented as an interview, reflects on what these two experts have to say about Science, Technology, Innovation, Communication and Ethics in the days of COVID-19 in Latin America, from their unique perspectives.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Alberto Ávila Araújo

This article seeks to present the current information regimes by analyzing the concepts used to describe the various contemporary informational phenomena. Seven concepts are analyzed: fake news, bullshit, hate speech, scientific denialism, disinformation, infodemic and post-truth. Next, these phenomena are analyzed from an informational perspective, in their technical, cognitive and pragmatic dimensions. Finally, it is concluded that the actions to combat the perverse effects of such phenomena are urgent, but they demand a work of clarity of the concepts involved in the processes on which one wants to act.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliano Borges ◽  
Arthur Coelho Bezerra

With the aim of gathering information for an article (recently published in Brazil) about Sleeping Giants’ fight against the political economy of disinformation, Brazilian researchers Juliano Borges and Arthur Coelho Bezerra interviewed the co-creator of the SG movement in the United States, Nandini Jammi, on October 2020. In this interview, Jammi addresses programmatic advertising, discusses the tactic found by Sleeping Giants to demonetize uninformative sites and takes a position on the responsibility of platforms to contain hate speech and disinformation on the internet. She explains how the initiative begins by targeting the disinformation site Breitbart News, and evolves into a digital civic movement that now relies on the collaborative work of unknown volunteers, including spontaneous cell creation in countries like Canada, France and Brazil.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Ángel Pérez Álvarez

This article reviews an approach to the use of Machine Learning in the development of metacognitive skills in children and adolescents. The pedagogical relevance and ethical implications in the introduction of emerging digital technologies in the educational field are analysed. We point out the relevance of a pedagogical and ethical approach to digital technologies that are used in the educational field to overcome the visions focused on the exclusive learning of the technique.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Calil Junior ◽  
Nysia Oliveira de Sá ◽  
Marianna Zattar
Keyword(s):  

Discorre sobre aspectos das relações entre os saberes e fazeres construídos nas universidades públicas brasileiras e na sociedade, focados nos debates sobre infodemia e desinformação, tendo por base três ações de extensão universitária, em 2020, entre a Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e a Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro com bibliotecas escolares e comunitárias. Para tanto, entende-se competência em informação como o conjunto de saberes e práticas articulados dialogicamente que possibilitam a construção do pensamento crítico, da avaliação criteriosa e do uso solidário e ético da informação, bem como a tessitura de estruturas que promovam ações cidadãs e engajadas com o bem comum. Destaca-se o protagonismo das universidades públicas nas soluções para a pandemia na sociedade brasileira, principalmente no fortalecimento de ações oriundas de projetos de extensão e no debate sobre a relevância do ensino superior e da educação como bem público.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Talita Figueiredo ◽  
Ana Lucia Alexandre Borges

Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TICs) providas pelos grandes conglomerados digitais que dominam uma paisagem aqui denominada capitalismo de plataforma passaram a configurar o ambiente de salas de aula digitais em 2020, quando a pandemia do coronavírus confinou no ensino remoto quase 1,5 bilhão de estudantes no mundo. Neste artigo, abordamos como diferentes níveis de desigualdade digital impactaram parcela relevante da população. Em nosso percurso teórico-metodológico, valemo-nos do conceito de regime de informação como chave para compreender o ambiente político, econômico e social em que essas mudanças se inserem. Em seguida, usamos pesquisas de fonte secundária para traçar um panorama da desigualdade digital no país. Por fim, propomos a competência crítica em informação como ferramenta para reconhecer e questionar o regime de informação vigente e, assim, abrir caminho para o exercício de uma cidadania ativa empenhada em mitigar a desigualdade digital, por meio de uma práxis transformadora.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jéssica Gabriela Tamião de Souza ◽  
Luciane de Fátima Backman Cavalcante

O presente artigo analisa a Competência em Informação (CoInfo) no contexto da Educação a Distância (EAD), por meio da prática profissional do tutor a distância. Reflete sobre os aspectos sociais da prática do profissional tutor, embasado teoricamente nos sete pilares de Bruce (1999), sobretudo em seu último pilar que aborda a utilização da CoInfo em benefício do próximo. Os dados foram coletados por meio de pesquisa semiestruturada com tutores a distância, em uma instituição de ensino, de uma cidade do interior do Estado do Paraná. Os resultados evidenciam que, embora os tutores apresentem habilidades informacionais, as práticsa da CoInfo e, sobretudo, do pensamento crítico não são institucionalizados em seu local de trabalho.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moises Rockembach

In this book review, Collaboration in Designing a Pedagogical Approach in Information Literacy (Landøy, Popa, Repanovici, 2020), we address the main characteristics approached by the authors, such as conceptual issues of information literacy, pedagogical approaches, the use of tools and exercises for the development of critical thinking about selection and use of information sources. This book, published by Springer in 2020 and open access, becomes a pedagogical option for addressing the topic of information literacy in the training of new information professionals.


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