Letramento digital nas interações online: análise dos fóruns de discussão do programa de formação continuada em mídias na educação

Abstract

The present study investigates how the levels of digital literacy interfere in the online interactions in forums of discussion. It has as objective to describe the characteristics of the forum of discussion and the necessary abilities to interact qualitatively in these. It categorizes the levels of digital literacy in forums of discussion from the domination of necessary abilities for the use of this interface of online interaction. It uses the virtual ethnography methodological approach, going deeper into the theoretical discussions about the studies on digital literacy, interactions in the online education and forum of discussion. It analyzes the levels of digital literacy presented by the course attendees in the forums developed during the Program of Continued Formation in Medias on Education, the course attendees materials of study (modules) which had subsidized the reflections proposed in the forums and the collected data with the application of a questionnaire with the course attendees delimited in the sample. The study it indicates that the digital literacy implies on the composition of new digital genders and of new events and literacy practices; that the online education gets potential by the use of interfaces and interactive environments; and that the forum as a space of interaction is marked by the dialog and by the collaborative learning. The analysis of the data allows to conclude that the level of digital literacy of the cursista intervenes with the dynamics and the quality of its interaction in the forums of discussion, in way that how much bigger it will be its digital literacy, more excellent will be its interventions.