Categorization of Brazilian Internet Users and Its Impacts on the Use of Electronic Government Services

Abstract

The media relations make possible new structural arrangements regarding the constructions of identities and new paradigms relating to ethical and moral assumptions. Psychic formation processes are influenced by several variables that are interrelated in an open system, converging in anthropological, environmental, genetic, psychological, historical and social factors that determine relational interaction behaviors. However, in virtual cities where flow-image, timelessness and non-place reign, they enable new psychic arrangements and a greater plasticity and speed in processing information and generating knowledge. At this conjectural point, where technology is a key factor that permeates the interactions and offers unknowns in the construction of identities, a new order without standards is established, which rules ethical parameters. The results catalyzed by the speed of exchanges of information characterize deviant and antisocial behaviors that can bring uncountable damage to every human being basic rights.

Virtual Microscopy as a Learning Tool in Brazilian Medical Education

“…Concurrently, Brazil has experienced a rapid increase in the number of private medical schools, with considerable discrepancies in teaching-learning methods and quality-standard maintenance between public and private schools, as assessed by the National Examination of Students' Performance (ENADE) (Scheffer and Dal Poz, 2015;Antunes Dos Santos and Nunes, 2019). In addition, Brazil maintains immense socioeconomic inequalities that reflect upon the households with Internet access: extremely high in the upper social classes (A and B) and much lower in C, D, and E social classes (Araujo and Reinhard, 2016;UNESCO, 2019). Therefore, in developing countries, such as Brazil, online laboratory platforms are still in the process of implementation.…”

“…A crucial concern of this study was to assess whether the tool accessibility would be similar, in the context of the social diversity that is found in Brazil (Araujo and Reinhard, 2016;UNESCO, 2019). Despite socioeconomic differences, the results obtained have shown that most of the students had access to the Internet and computers outside the RPMS campus.…”

“…In 2016, only about 10% of underprivileged classes (D-E classes) had high-speed internet access at home. Even considering A-B classes (upper classes), around 50% of households included internet users (Araujo and Reinhard, 2016). Therefore, in face of Brazilian social and internet inequalities, and considering the remote education needs in the current world pandemic, the main goal of this work was to verify student's perceptions such as handling, suitability, learning effectiveness and pleasure, and academic performance, assessed upon VM implementation at Ribeirao Preto Medical School of the University of Sao Paulo, in Brazil.…”