Ignacio Aguaded

Media literacy for an inclusive knowledge society: international indicators

One of the biggest concerns in current societies involves the proper literacy that citizens should have in order to access a participatory society and a competitive market; influenced by technological evolution. Media literacy, which is understood as a holistic concept of literacy enriched by different literacies needed in this century, has the leading role in this context. Even though European stakeholders, policy makers and international institutions have been working for a common framework, key indicators in media literacy are a continuously changing set of competences that evolve rapidly with technological and digital transformation. In this regard this essay presents an in depth study of international indicators in media literacy in its most relevant contexts. Due to the changing nature of the indicators, it is important to keep updated on the latest achievements that different institutions and governments have reached. Particularly significant is the study of the European framework, with special attention focused on work carried out in the United Kingdom. UNESCO also served as a pioneers in expanding and developing media literacy and media education. Finally, ACMA dimensions for media literacy from Australia allow us to draw an updated road map of media literacy in the knowledge society. The main conclusion refers to the multidimensional meaning of media literacy deduced from the study of different contexts, which is the starting point for a real study of media literacy today.

Las radios universitarias en España: históricamente en la encrucijada. Primeros pasos para su regulación en Andalucía

espanolLas universidades son concebidas desde la antiguedad como las instituciones del saber, del futuro, y como potentes herramientas transformadoras de una sociedad, pero para ello, deben estar en sinergia constante con la misma, recibiendo, pero sobre todo aportando desde el servicio publico, todo lo que en ellas se genera. Como puentes de conexion, desde hace 40 anos, existen en Espana radios en algunas universidades. En la actualidad son 26 emisoras las que se aglutinan en la Asociacion nacional de Radios Universitarias (ARU). Todas ellas han demostrado esa funcion de extension a la ciudadania y sobre todo de servicio publico. Pero han sido numerosos los avatares y las dificultades para ponerlas en marcha o, peor, para mantenerlas con el paso del tiempo. En las paginas siguientes se analiza pero sobre todo se aportan soluciones que, indudablemente pasa por obtener un reconocimiento definitivo en las legislaciones autonomica y estatal. Nos detendremos a estudiar el caso de Andalucia donde esta a punto de ser aprobada una nueva ley audiovisual que reconoce a las radios universitarias y escolares como medios de titularidad publica, un hito que marca un antes y un despues en la historia de estas emisoras. EnglishUniversities have been conceived since ancient times as institutions of knowledge, the future, and as powerful tools for transforming a society, but to do so, they must be in constant synergy with it, receiving, but above all contributing from the public service, everything that is generated in them. As connection bridges, for the past 40 years, in Spain there have been radios in some universities. At present, 26 stations are grouped together in the National Association of University Radio Stations (ARU). All of them have demonstrated, as is described in this work, this function of extension to citizenship and above all of public service. But there have been numerous ups and downs and difficulties in getting them going or, worse, keeping them going over time. In the following pages we will analyze but above all provide solutions that undoubtedly go through obtaining a definitive recognition in the autonomous and state legislations. We will pause to study the case of Andalusia, where a new audiovisual law is about to be approved that recognizes university and school radio stations as a means of public ownership, a milestone that marks a turning point in the history of these stations.

Radios universitarias en la encrucijada. El caso de la regulación en Andalucía

espanolLas universidades son concebidas desde la antiguedad como las instituciones del saber, del futuro, y como potentes herramientas transformadoras de una sociedad, pero para ello, deben estar en sinergia constante con la misma, recibiendo, pero sobre todo aportando desde el servicio publico, todo lo que en ellas se genera. Como puentes de conexion, desde hace 40 anos, existen en Espana radios en algunas universidades. En la actualidad son 26 emisoras las que se aglutinan en la Asociacion nacional de Radios Universitarias (ARU). Todas ellas han demostrado esa funcion de extension a la ciudadania y sobre todo de servicio publico. Pero han sido numerosos los avatares y las dificultades para ponerlas en marcha o, peor, para mantenerlas con el paso del tiempo. En las paginas siguientes se analiza pero sobre todo se aportan soluciones que, indudablemente pasa por obtener un reconocimiento definitivo en las legislaciones autonomica y estatal. Nos detendremos a estudiar el caso de Andalucia donde esta a punto de ser aprobada una nueva ley audiovisual que reconoce a las radios universitarias y escolares como medios de titularidad publica, un hito que marca un antes y un despues en la historia de estas emisoras. EnglishUniversities have been conceived since ancient times as institutions of knowledge, the future, and as powerful tools for transforming a society, but to do so, they must be in constant synergy with it, receiving, but above all contributing from the public service, everything that is generated in them. As connection bridges, for the past 40 years, in Spain there have been radios in some universities. At present, 26 stations are grouped together in the National Association of University Radio Stations (ARU). All of them have demonstrated, as is described in this work, this function of extension to citizenship and above all of public service. But there have been numerous ups and downs and difficulties in getting them going or, worse, keeping them going over time. In the following pages we will analyze but above all provide solutions that undoubtedly go through obtaining a definitive recognition in the autonomous and state legislations. We will pause to study the case of Andalusia, where a new audiovisual law is about to be approved that recognizes university and school radio stations as a means of public ownership, a milestone that marks a turning point in the history of these stations.

Desarrollo de la competencia mediática en el contexto iberoamericano

This article is focused on the importance that the genre of novel has got for the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa and the Czech Milan Kundera. Both writers consider as the basis the Cervantean heritage in the Quijote, in particular the subject od freedom: the freedom of novel reflects the value of freedom of the human being in the Western culture. We also mention other key elements as the humour or the relation with the History.This paper analyzes hoy Postmodernism has not meant the total death of the author, as Poststructuralisms had once certified, but his/her mutation into new forms of presenciality, from TV to social networks. Some examples are proposed which show the continuities and changes from appearances of writers on TV during the 70s and 80s, and the current use of blogs or personal profiles in social networks such as Facebook. These cases reveal how literature???s place in everyday culture has changed. But it also shows the adaptation of writers, halfway between the business management of their own image and the conversion of this management in a literary matter.This article proposes a reading of some poems by Fina Garcia Marruz in which we can recognize her particular way of using commonplaces about the feminine. It is affirmed that this Cuban author radically reformulates the content of topics such as silence, domestic space or reproductive function, thus making possible to think about an active, productive and significant female subject, and inscribing transcendence into everyday life.Edublogs have traditionally been overlooked by scholars as they were not considered to be worthy of academic attention. Nevertheless, the pedagogic paradigm that now pervades has triggered a keen interest in the Web 2.0 and its resources. Students and teachers alike are facing great exposure to blogs, which have been conveniently transposed to the classrooms in all disciplines at all levels of education. Hereafter we will explore the use of edublogs for foreign language learning defending the stance that culture is a chief element that should not be taught separately from the target language that defines it. The target language should mediate learning, blurring all cleavage that may exist between culture and language. Edublogs–whether teacher blogs, student blogs or class blogs– stand as the perfect scenario for collaborative building of knowledge, where language is perfectly integrated in its culture. In this article we suggest the term: ‘CILTES’ Culture-Integrated Language Teaching in Edublog Scenarios as the key for effective language learning. The following research presents a new categorization of edublogs for language learning purposes enabling a closer look at the student-teacher tandem in relation to higher or lower presence of culture in blogs.This article is focused on the importance that the genre of novel has got for the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa and the Czech Milan Kundera. Both writers consider as the basis the Cervantean heritage in the Quijote, in particular the subject od freedom: the freedom of novel reflects the value of freedom of the human being in the Western culture. We also mention other key elements as the humour or the relation with the History.Edublogs have traditionally been overlooked by scholars as they were not considered to be worthy of academic attention. Nevertheless, the pedagogic paradigm that now pervades has triggered a keen interest in the Web 2.0 and its resources. Students and teachers alike are facing great exposure to blogs, which have been conveniently transposed to the classrooms in all disciplines at all levels of education. Hereafter we will explore the use of edublogs for foreign language learning defending the stance that culture is a chief element that should not be taught separately from the target language that defines it. The target language should mediate learning, blurring all cleavage that may exist between culture and language. Edublogs???whether teacher blogs, student blogs or class blogs??? stand as the perfect scenario for collaborative building of knowledge, where language is perfectly integrated in its culture. In this article we suggest the term: ???CILTES??? Culture-Integrated Language Teaching in Edublog Scenarios as the key for effective language learning. The following research presents a new categorization of edublogs for language learning purposes enabling a closer look at the student-teacher tandem in relation to higher or lower presence of culture in blogs.Panhispanic Anthology of Digital Writings of Hernan Casciari, Domenico Chiappe, Agustin Fernandez Mallo, Belen Gache, Milton Laufer, Pelayo Mendez, Elika Ortega, Eugenio Tisselli, Cristina Rivera Garza and Horacio Warpola / Canek Zapata.Ten years after the creation of a great number of writers’ blogs, the aim of this paper is to assess the use made of this medium by a dozen Spanish writers. It analyses the impact of such blogs on the process of cultural recognition, their potential as a tool for literary creation and their similarities, as well as their differences, with private diaries.Technological and thought changes that took place at the end of the last century have defined a new system of social relations. In the same way, the preponderance of the image as a medium of documenting what is happening and also as a new language has led, in a general way, to a communicative fact different from the usual one with modern broadcast channels for the message, a greater flow of information and an indeterminate plurality in the number of receivers. From a more concrete perspective, these transformations have affected to the literary fact, questioning the traditional roles assumed first by the reader and the writer, and later by editors and mediators. This paper pays attention to the literary criticism and to the BookTube phenomenon. It is not its objective to stablish a paradigm of the audiovisual review, but to make a social approach to it.Barcelona and Mallorca are two reference points to analyze not only cultural and friendship relationships of Ruben Dario with the writers of the Catalonian modernist generation, the way in that all of them, in Spanish or Catalan, read and shared the same style, but also to appreciate how nature and the Mediterranean landscape influenced in a significant way on Dario’s poetic development.This paper analyzes hoy Postmodernism has not meant the total death of the author, as Poststructuralisms had once certified, but his/her mutation into new forms of presenciality, from TV to social networks. Some examples are proposed which show the continuities and changes from appearances of writers on TV during the 70s and 80s, and the current use of blogs or personal profiles in social networks such as Facebook. These cases reveal how literature’s place in everyday culture has changed. But it also shows the adaptation of writers, halfway between the business management of their own image and the conversion of this management in a literary matter.This paper aims to show that fanfiction can be a way for young people to build their self, not only by writing about sexuality, but also by playing with the literary codes of fiction, especially with auctoritas. If the blognovel is a simulacrum where the author as a fake is the most important element of fiction, in the fanfiction, on the contrary, the author is supposed to disappear behind the rules of the fanon and his favorite characters. However, in some fanfics, the reader can observe how the young authors are making a kind of coming-out, emphasizing their literary authority.En 2017 se cumplieron veinte anos del nacimiento del blog, que llego a Internet no demasiados anos despues de que Tim Berners-Lee creara la web visual, es decir, Internet tal y como nosotros la conocemos hoy. La mayoria de los historiadores del mundo tecnologico coinciden en reconocer un hito particular: el 1 de abril de 1997 Dave Winer publico el primer texto en el que es considerado el primer weblog, que se titulaba Scripting News (frente a Justin’s Links from the Underground, de 1994, creado por el destacado pionero digital Justin Hall, un fundamental antepasado de lo que pronto iba a suceder). Como sabemos, en la eterna carrera por buscar lo primigenio, no faltan tampoco quienes consideran que el primer blog fue en realidad la primera web, que colgo Berners-Lee, What’s Up in ’92 (Escandell 20). Otros, en cambio, esperan hasta el 17 de diciembre de 1997 con Robot Wisdom Weblog de Jorn Barger, pues fue el quien invento el termino “weblog” (Ammann 279). No habia otra opcion: debia hacerlo alguien con un profundo bagaje humanista, caracterizado igualmente por su amplio dominio del mundo tecnico. En este caso, estamos ante un informatico de formacion y profesion que ha escrito abundantemente sobre James Joyce y sobre inteligencia artificial desde la epoca de la Usenet (creada en 1979).

Media Literacy and Digital Skills for Enhancing Critical Thinking in Networked Society

1 The development of media literacy and digital skills in citizenship is one of the main challenges acknowledged within the context of the European Unions 2020 Strategy. Boosting these digital skills and media literacy as necessary requirements in the digital society are viewed as essential, and must be included in the educational curriculum. In general programs and educational policies, the key issue for implementing effective measures and specific actions is to foster critical thinking within media literacy education to achieve a true integration of media and digital skills in educational contexts. In this regard, this essay presents a research project for an effective and active inclusion of media literacy; for critical participation of citizens in the digital society. The main goal of the study presented, although the project has broader scopes, is to first conduct in-depth review of the state of the art in order to compare international models and issues. The study of media literacy and digital competences will help establish the main dimensions for this study. This project aims to provide evidence-based guidance to those responsible for the education of children and young people on the proper use of the available digital media tools and knowledge, that is, teachers and families. To achieve this objective a first step is taken in the reviewing of national and international studies and programs by collecting different proposals of dimensions in the study of media literacy and digital skills. The result is a design of key dimensions for the present study that will serve to collect data demonstrating the impact that digital media are having in the new consumption habits of children and young people outside of the classroom. These dimensions will be the bases for the design of an assessment instrument.

El discurso mediático en la prensa digital del baloncesto masculino y femenino en Huelva

The present research focuses on the study of the transformation of journalistic discourse through a semantic analysis and interpretative hermeneutic units collected, in response to a study quanti-qualitative of topics and the most repeated rhetorical figures found in the news of the digital press of Huelva. The power of the media in shaping public opinion and the construction of reality generated a constant debate on the form of drafting the journalistic information. Gender differences, as well as the positive and negative aspects in the League masculine and feminine basketball cause the address information in the digital press to become an element of analysis. The results obtained show that the digital press of Huelva, bet for the prayers and positive codes at the time of informing about the male and female teams analyzed.

Modelo procedimental de la evaluación de las políticas públicas a través de la ludificación

Este articulo tiene por objeto proponer un modelo procedimental disenado para optimizar la experiencia de la ciudadania en la toma de decisiones de las politicas publicas a traves de la ludificacion. Se parte de la consideracion que la ludificacion promueve la motivacion hacia una actividad prolongando su participacion dentro de un ambito especifico. En este caso, se encamina su aplicacion para motivar la integracion de los ciudadanos en la toma de decisiones. Para ello se contrastan tres modelos de evaluacion de politicas publicas que incorporan la participacion civil en tres roles diferentes: auditor, pasivo y activo. Al aplicar la metodologia Delphi, los resultados de fiabilidad y consistencia interna demuestran que el modelo de participacion activa tiene mayor valoracion por parte de los expertos respecto a la ludificacion, Como conclusion, el modelo generado abre una nueva area de conocimiento dentro de la evaluacion de politicas publicas imbuida en la interactividad del contexto mediatico.This article proposes a procedural model designed to optimize the experience of citizens in decision making of public policies through gamification. The study assumes that gamification is motivating and contributes to increase involvement within a specific area. In this case, gamification is used to encourage citizens’ engagement in decision-making, based on three models of public policies evaluation that incorporate civic participation in three different roles: auditor, passive and active. Applying the Delphi methodology, the results of reliability and internal consistency show that experts attribute higher value to the model of active participation using gamification. In conclusion, the model designed opens a new area of knowledge within public policies evaluation, embedded in the interactivity of the media context

Construcción del discurso bélico desde las agencias internacionales de noticias: Estudio de Caso Atentados del 13 de noviembre de 2015

This study analyzes warmongering rhetoric presented by international agencies Reuters, Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera and Associated Press (AP) of the information related to the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13th, 2015 for 15 days after the event. We have started from a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 550 information units using the software MAXQDA (v. 11.0.11). Subsequently, the semantic criteria of media discourse: functionality, significance and direction of the goal was applied on the selected sample. The results demonstrate the prevailing demonization of Islam, the exaltation of fear and panic in the discursive construction and it highlighted the spectacle of the information as a communicative strategy on the rhetorical guidance.

Media Competencies for the Citizenship Training of Teachers from Andean America: Colombia and Ecuador

Em um mundo cada vez mais saturado e infoxicado, a literacia mediatica emerge como uma necessidade de filtragem eficiente da vasta quantidade de informacao que consumimos. A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar qualitativamente o grau de competencia midiatica dos docentes colombianos (cidade de Medellin) e equatorianos (cidades de Loja e Zamora) atraves da aplicacao de uma taxonomia adaptada do modelo de competencias mediaticas, que e constituido por seis dimensoes e 12 indicadores. A mostra analisada foi composta por 654 docentes de 81 instituicoes publicas e privadas. Foi aplicado um instrumento de levantamento de dados com a finalidade de determinar o nivel de competencia midiatica dos docentes por cada dimensao. Os resultados obtidos expressam um grau baixo e mediano de competencia mediatica, o que evidencia a necessidade de intervencoes prioritarias a partir de trabalhos locais, regionais e internacionais que mobilizem cooperacao cientifica, academica e politica para melhorar o desempeno de um grupo que deveria liderar a formacao geral da cidadania.

Toward a taxonomy of newspaper information quality: An experimental model and test applied to Venezuela dimensions found in information quality

The quality of information from communication media is a topic that has been dealt with by various theorists through the analysis of the final products of information. This research work offers an analysis model of the quality of information of printed news media by the use of three indexes of categories and structured dimensions that will allow for the assessment and evaluation of the quality of information from the media, and the identification of the incidence of political-economic conditions of the journalistic environment’s macro-environment. For this, an experimental test of two Venezuelan media outlets was performed. Their use allowed us to conclude that political polarization and discourse of social confrontation, as well as economic factors such as inflation and pay scales had a proportionally direct effect on the quality of information products.