This thesis aims to understand, in depth, the processes emerging in the academic life with the appropriation of digital media and its specific format storage, treatment and access to information. This appropriation is especially true since the early 90s in which proceeds the expansion of personal computing and internet network on a large scale in different countries, with the deepening of the network society in the 2000s. It analyzes the mood of the contemporary intellectual and academic practices in a phase in which the traditional analog media, represented by print media (books and journals) is merged with the new digital media, which redraws the old formats and proposes new ones. For this we selected sixteen doctors related to the field of Education who graduated between the years 2005 and 2010, eight in Brazil (PUC-Rio) and eight in Italy (UCSC Milano), to compose a multiple case study (Yin, 2001) through semi-structured interviews. Through exhaustive content analysis of the transcripts (Bardin, 1977), emerged seven major thematic axes, namely: (I) Trajectory of digital and academic life; (II) Uses of technology; (III) Reading mode, (IV) Writing mode; (V) Use of sources; (VI) Mode of organization; (VII) Communication mode. Among the findings, the author of scholarly activity using digital technologies has numerous influencing factors: the research topic chosen, the agents of initial interest in the use of technology, the willingness to explore new resources available, the type of empiricism (in person or via internet) and type of resources needed to form the theoretical basis. The analysis model applied to each interview showed that this multiplicity is reflected in numerous unique individual practices, such as continuous circular search in different media, reading texts on screen, writing and simultaneous layers, the use of new empirical sources and re-analysis of available databases on the Internet. Although the process of scanning sources ways to pick them up is well underway through general search engines and academic databases, with respect to ways of reading persists conservation habits linked to print and analog and underutilization of potential available for communication with other researchers, especially the fear of sharing projects and research results in informal ways and open virtual communities. Seeking to draw a set of useful information to assist in future training programs of teacherresearcher, this thesis can serve to build activities and courses that will help develop a stronger learning in the use of digital media in Education PhD courses and in the humanities in general.