PROJECTS
From quilombos to favelas: black women, intersectionality, and access to information
and communication technologies
CNPq
This project analyzes the access, use, and appropriation of information and communication technologies (ICT) by female leaders of quilombos in Minas Gerais and favelas in Rio de Janeiro. From an intersectional perspective that seeks to articulate gender, race, and territory, the proposal is associated with "Line 3 – Public policies for social development", given its potential to promote government actions aimed at historically and socially excluded segments in the Brazilian context. The specific objectives are the following: (1) to characterize the sociodemographic profile of the participants; (2) to understand if/how the access barriers to ICT intersect with the social markers of difference listed; (3) to analyze the similarities and/or differences of access to communication by the participants, in interface with specific vulnerabilities of their rural/urban territoriality; and (4) to conduct digital-media literacy workshops. This qualitative and participatory research can be defined as an Action-Research (AR), which combines different social studies methods for collecting and analyzing data to understand a local reality so that an intervention process can be carried out later.
Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
Notice: Pro-Humanities/2022
Rural women: from access to appropriation of information
and communication technologies
FAPEMIG
This project aims to analyze the access, use, and appropriation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by rural women in the region of Zona da Mata, state of Minas Gerais. Four groups were selected to participate in this research: quilombola women from Buieié (Viçosa) and Córrego do Meio (Paula Cândido), and women from the settlements Olga Benário (Visconde do Rio Branco) and Denis Gonçalves (Goianá). The research and outreach interface will be tackled by understanding these rural women's communicational reality, which will support community interventions and workshops on digital media literacy. The outreach action aims to contribute to greater communicational autonomy of women, encouraging the development of skills in media-content production for generating both income and political articulation. The proposal is associated with the Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG-5), which addresses gender equality. In a more specific sense, it intends to support the fulfillment of Goal 5b by Brazil, which deals with developing skills in producing content and media considering the plurality of rural areas regarding racial belonging, gender, generation, territory, and culture.
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Funding: Foundation for Research Support of the State of Minas Gerais (Fapemig)
Notice: Outreach and research interface/2022
Rural women and info-communication resources: from inequality to strategies in the search for knowledge about health in a pandemic context
FAPEMIG
In Brazil, rural people are the group with less access to the Internet, only 53%. The majority (79%) use it exclusively on smartphones (TIC Domicílios, 2019). This inequality is amplified when it comes to rural women due to their low income, connection difficulties, or because husbands and children usually take priority in purchasing and handling the device. Considering that access to information enhances making appropriate health choices and the pandemic situation imposed by COVID-19, which has changed social dynamics, a question emerges: How did rural women, given their limitations of access to information and communication technologies, seek strategies to deal with the coronavirus and take care of their family health? The main objectives of this research proposal are the following: 1) to analyze and compare the inequality in the use of info-communication resources (information and communication technologies) in different groups of rural women living in the Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais (quilombolas, young women attending a rural schooling, and family farmers); 2) to get to know family dynamics, gender division of labor, and gender relationship regarding access to technologies; 3) to comprehend the strategies employed by these women to acquire knowledge about health, especially on Covid-19 prevention; 4) to map the institutional, public, and private media accessed by these rural women to obtain health knowledge.
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Funding: Foundation for Research Support of the State of Minas Gerais (Fapemig)
Notice: Universal Demand/2021
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