Managing personal digital files: a study of university students' organizing practices and perceptions

• Autor(a) principal: Bertazzi, Pedro
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Furnival, Ariadne Chloe Mary
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Information Science
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/bjis/article/view/12841
• topic: Personal digital archiving; Personal information management; Information literacy; Digital information competencies; Arquivamento digital pessoal; Gerenciamento de informação pessoal; Letramento informacional; Competência em informação

The present work aimed to map the practices and perceptions that the students of a Brazilian federal university have about the way they organize, treat, archive and access their personal digital documents, besides offering an information framework about their behaviour to support future information literacy activities and the development of new technologies. The methodological procedure used was survey research, and data were collected through the application of an online questionnaire. The main results found were that the students have an organizational system of their own and trust it.  Along with this, we observed practices that can be discussed and worked on, such as excessive saving of files, reluctance to delete unimportant files, and the characterization of the cloud system and external hard drives as intermittent archives. Thus, it can be concluded that there is a need for information literacy activities to stimulate and enhance information competencies in the processes of archiving and organizing digital files of university students, which will contribute to future decision-making in the academic world.