Rural Communatcation: legitimizing digital inclusion in rural field
subject: Agricultura Familiar, Comunicação Rural. Inclusão Digital, Internet
description: Through contemporary analysis, it was noted that the countryside of São Paulo experienced drastic transformation and demanded rural family farmers to adapt themselves to technological innovations, where the most striking is the use of the internet in search of information to the sustainable development of rural property. The research adopted a methodological way of exploratory, through the case study, which analyzed the general objective the dissemination and usability of information and communication technologies in rural areas in the interior of forms-based applied to farmers in the family farms belonging to theAssociation of banana growers of Tupã. In seeking to achieve this goal, reflected on the use of internet in rural areas and measured-factors that enhance digital communication barriers in rural addressing the digital divide becomes a limiting factor to access. In this sense, the rural communication emerges as relational link mediating solutions and incorporating the diffusion of innovations in the pursuit of digital literacy of farmers contributing to the democratization of society in the information age.
creator: Juliana Correa Bernardes, Eduardo Baio Bonfim
source: Revista Eletrônica Competências Digitais para Agricultura Familiar
publisher: Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
date: 2016
relation: http://codaf.tupa.unesp.br:8082/index.php/recodaf/article/view/8
coverage: Agriculture (General)