O crescimento do uso dos jogos digitais durante a pandemia e seus efeitos nos universitários.

Abstract

During the COVID-19 pandemic, it was necessary for people to isolate themselves, due to the high rates of contagion and possible deaths. According to the Ministry of Health, in Brazil alone there have been more than 35 million confirmed cases and 695,000 deaths, by the beginning of 2023. As a result, the population had to give up their usual forms of face-to-face entertainment and socializing. , which led to forms of digital pastime appearing as an alternative form of entertainment and socialization. Among them, one of the ones that saw the most growth in this period was the use of digital games, being appreciated even by those who had never had contact before the isolation period. Therefore, in this work, we intend to analyze how the growth in the use of digital games during the pandemic generated positive and negative impacts on the lives of Brazilian university students after the pandemic. For this, Google forms were sent to such students, thus allowing the generation of comparative graphs from the collection and analysis of data. Thus, we managed to prove a relationship between this growth and the effects observed after the end of it, both for those who already had contact with games and for those who had their first experience. At the end of the survey, we were able to obtain responses from 115 undergraduate and graduate university students, obtaining a good perspective of this connection and hoping to encourage future works.