O impacto da exclusão digital entre os discentes do turno noturno do Instituto de Geografia Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente

Abstract

Information and Communication Technologies and their related resources, such as Digital Social Networks, are recognized as the instruments that have most collaborated with the economic, social and cultural development of peoples, and with the insertion of societies in the context of globalization for at least thirty and five years. Within the perspective on screen, the study discusses the importance of these instruments in the academic space and in the domestic reality of the students of the Geography Course, night shift, of the Institute of Geography, Development and Environment, or IGDema, based on the A. C. Simões campus, in Maceio. It addresses the importance of the institute space and the private space being well equipped and with easy access to the internet to increase the acquisition of knowledge and information, reducing the potential inequalities promoted by digital exclusion in Alagoas society. It has the general objective of understanding the impacts of these instruments on the reality of students, through what is offered by IGDema and what they themselves have. The methodology adopts the type of exploratory and descriptive research. Data collection was carried out during the month of June 2022. As a result, it shows that the researched institute has a relative technological structure, but inaccessible to students due to unresolved technical problems. After analyzing the data collected, it was possible to conclude that there is still a considerable portion of students who are digitally excluded.