World knowledge by digital reading: a study with university

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Francielle Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Franco, Sandra Aparecida Pires
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/iberoamericana/article/view/10306
• topic: Reading. Scientific knowledge. Internet.; Lectura. Conocimiento científico. Internet.; Leitura. Conhecimento científico. Internet.

In contemporary society, human practices are related to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), that is, we are living cyberculture. Formal education is not isolated from the movement and transformations caused by access to and use of ICT. Higher education students use cell phones and notebooks at university continually both for academic requirements and for communication and entertainment. In view of this context, the main objective of this study was to analyze which world knowledge reading on the Internet gives university students, since the act of reading surpasses the mere habit of reading or decoding words, as a humanizing need, allows readers to appropriate the culture and to have a scientific knowledge of the world. As a investigative procedure, a semistructured questionnaire of six questions was applied to ten students from different courses of a private university in the southern region of Brazil. The treatment of the data was qualitative, based on the critical-dialectic approach. The results coincided with a nationwide survey, which points to digital readings of varied forms and content, with emphasis on social networks and news sites, and little prominence for books and newspapers. The reading of academic material was expressed by 100% of the students, however, on the world knowledge provided by the readings in the screen medium, the answers were reduced to the updates of the world, the profession and others, without the mention of a critical understanding and Reflective of reality that awakens the need for transformation.