CULTURE OF VIRTUALITY, SOCIAL IMPACTS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL EXERCISE IN SOCIAL WORK

Abstract

The aim of this article is to discuss how the use of information and communication technologies impact in professional training in Social Work.  In order to achieve that, graduate students of Social Work in public universities in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais were asked to fill out forms. The method used was critical-dialectical materialism and the research methodology was a combination of bibliographic and documental research. Regarding the research findings, it identifies the need to guide and narrow the debate on information and communication technologies in order to critically tune training and professional practice in the face of technological resources that impact training, but which are also channels of expression of forms of violence, oppression, violations and related issues that happen in the virtual environment, but which have consequences for the subjects of the real world.