Digital condition and educational inequalities

new historical possibilities to constitute and connect in digital culture

Abstract

This article aimed to analyze in what aspects the need for the almost mandatory use of Digital Technologies of Information and Communication during the Covid-19 pandemic, potentiated the inequalities already present in the access to technological and virtual resources for Brazilian students and how this inequality impacted the teaching-learning processes. The concepts of Digital Culture and Digital Condition were taken as guidelines for this study. Thus, we started with a bibliographical and documental review on the use and access to the Internet in Brazil, mainly by the school population, and analyzed this panorama in dialogue with researchers and scholars in the fields of education, sociology and communication. In this path, it was possible to conclude that, both for the unequal and for those who are in a privileged condition of access to Digital Culture, it is necessary to build a new social contract that involves an agenda for the elaboration of public policies that guarantee access to the Internet as a universal right. On the other hand, make use of digital spaces as an appropriation of a Digital Culture that changes the world, the way of being in it and its values. In this sense, the digital is not just an environment, it is a new ecosystem that shelters us.