Raissa Carneiro de Brito presented her dissertation as a requisite for the MS degree in Information Science at UFPB. Raissa researched on resistance to change (routine-preserving behavior) as a behavioral digital limitation/impairment. She implemented a series of focus groups and participant observations in a rural community nearby João Pessoa, Brazil, where she is part of a voluntary team that promotes general and digital literacy for anyone in that community who is interested. She researched the drivers of resistance and acceptance to participate in the educational activities, and she ingeniously associated some behaviors with a character of the Brazilian popular culture that sings “I was born this way, I grew up this way, I actually live this way, I’ll always live this way.” Her research was the fifth M.Sc. research on the validation of Bellini et al.’s (2010) seminal work on digital limitations/impairments. The committee for her dissertation was: Dr. Brivaldo Marinho (UFPB), Dr. Dulce Neves (UFPB), and Dr. Carlo Bellini (UFPB, supervisor).
Digital literacy and resistance to change (routine-preserving behavior) in a rural community
