The School of Life, University Students, and Mobile Devices in Teaching and Research

Abstract

This chapter presents theoretical and empirical studies that investigate the influence of digital culture on the educational process of university students where mobile devices and the internet have become increasingly present as resources in everyday school life. The researchers investigate how such devices and the internet interact with university environments in ways that change the more traditional academic practices, such as reading, writing, and studying. Moreover, in the context of what has been widely labeled as humanities studies, interest has grown in understanding how “culture” may be studied via varied strands of interpretative lines of inquiry, each configured by different methods and ways of reflection. At master education levels, digital technology becomes even more present as a means of academic activity and, as a result, amplifies the impacts of digital culture on contemporary university culture. The purpose of this work is to study the concept of culture, digital culture, and scholarly culture, and, on a second approach, to review aspects of the development of communication methods and their impacts on university educational environments. As a methodological theoretical procedure, this research builds on authors who have raised practical and scholarly cultural questions, such as Pierre Bourdieu, Pierre Levy, Raymond Williams, Roger Chartier, Anne Marie Chartier, and Bernard Lahire, among others. This study engages in empirical research with students in an Advertising and Marketing course in a private higher educational institution in the city of Araraquara, which is located in the “interior” of the state of São Paulo in Brazil.

Citation

Monteiro, E.E.F.L. and Valdemarin, V.T. (2024), "The School of Life, University Students, and Mobile Devices in Teaching and Research", Moreira, S.V., Moles, K., Robinson, L. and Schulz, J. (Ed.) Creating Culture Through Media and Communication (Studies in Media and Communications, Vol. 24), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 81-96. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2050-206020240000024006