Desigualdade digital e desigualdade social no Brasil

Abstract

The digital inequality reflects the existential and resource inequality, as it is correlated to the different social categories and, consequently, to the individuals' chances of life, that is, schooling categories, income, spatial segmentation, race, gender, activity condition and age are conditioning factors for inequality in general and, particularly, for digital inequality. In this sense, this work has as a general objective to analyze whether the possession and use of microcomputers, mobile devices and internet has contributed to the reproduction of the Brazilian social inequality present in the social categories in the country. To achieve the proposed objective, multivariate data analyzes were adopted, more specifically, cluster analysis, principal component analysis, logistic regression and ordinal logistics regression. As a result, in relation to the home, the greatest differences in possession and use involved family income and the environment where the home is located, that is, whether urban or rural. In relation to the types of internet and computer use, the greatest inequalities between categories involved the variables education and personal income. It is clear, therefore, that the possession, access and use of information and communication technologies and the internet are also available in different ways between different Brazilian social categories, expanding the boundaries between them and, consequently, inequality at the national level.