Digital creativity to transform learning: Empowerment from a com-educational approach

 Iván Sánchez-López, Huelva (Spain)

 Mónica Bonilla-del-Río, Huelva (Spain)

 Ismar Oliveira Soares, São Paulo (Brazil)

https://doi.org/10.3916/C69-2021-09

Keywords

Media literacy, educommunication, school, education, digital media, young people

Abstract

Daily media use by an entire generation shows the distance that exists between the reality experienced by young people and the institutions responsible for their education. Formal education is still closely linked to the passive role of literary receivers, ignoring the potential of connected communication for student empowerment. At the same time, there is a growing interest in education from the professional media field. We have called this line of force the com-educational vector. In this study, we aim to describe the potential of a com-educational perspective to favor the empowerment of young people. The implemented methodology combines a chained articulation involving the analysis of multimodal discourse of com-educational platforms with interviews with privileged observers. The results show that the implementation of digital creation can be used for the construction of identity, interaction and socialization of students through emotion, empathy and the capacity for transformation. It enables the establishment of nodes between concepts, relational understanding, meaningful reconstruction and appropriation. It is concluded that, under this proposal, formal education institutions could move from a reactive model to a prospective model, revising the codes of emission and reception, and proposing meanings from creative action and feedback with the community.

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This study was made possible with the support of the “Youtubers e Instagrammers: La Competencia Mediática en los Prosumidores Emergentes” (Youtubers and Instagrammers: Media Competence among Emerging Prosumers) R&D Project (RTI2018-2093303-BI00), funded by the Spanish Agency for Research under the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain, European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), and the R&D&i (2020-2022) Project entitled “Instagrammers and Youtubers for transmedia empowerment of Andalusian citizens. Media Competence of Instatubers” P18-RT-756, funded by the Junta de Andalucia (Andalusia Regional Government) in 2018 (Andalusian Program for Research, Development, and Innovation 2020) and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER).

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Received: 24-02-2021

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