Workshop: Digital Literacies and Digital Inclusion in Contemporary Brazil

This research aims to investigate the BigTech "hidden curriculum" and the prescription of speed through technologies for education, seeking to build interfaces between communication, education and technologies and the notion of social acceleration of time.

The social acceleration of time is: (1) technical; (2) of social transformations; and (3) of the pace of life. Speed is a social imperative that goes beyond technological networks, engenders itself in the psyche and bodies of individuals, affects coexistence, accelerates daily practices and strains different fields of life, establishing haste as the norm.

Speed is one of the values that integrate the BigTech agenda, a hidden curriculum that large companies (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft) use to connect the idea of technology to notions of advancement, progress and development, making It difficult to criticize everything that refers to the technological universe.

This “value package” builds a belief in technologies and prescribes miraculous technological solutions for education.

We have in mind that these resources are not just devices, but a cultural environment, today increasingly complex due to the dynamics of the
data capitalism.

Considering the hypothesis that technologies can be "education accelerators", in the current stage of this investigation, we seek to map articulations between the notions of social acceleration of time and modern school socialization.
In addition to pointing to the incorporations of the BigTech agenda, this study also intends to identify cracks in this logic, mapping "humanized", citizen and resistant forms of technology use in education from a critical perspective of cyberculture.