"Combining an innovative mix of traditional chapters, autoethnography, case studies, and dialogue within an intercultural framework, the handbook focuses on the future of media education and provides a deeper understanding of the challenges and affordances of media education as we move forward. Topi
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cs range from fighting disinformation, how vulnerable communities coped with disadvantages using media, transforming educational TV or YouTube to reach larger audiences, supporting students’ wellbeing through various online strategies, examining early childhood, parents, and media mentoring using digital tools, reflecting on educators’ intersectionality on video platforms, youth-produced media to fight injustice, teaching remotely and providing low-tech solutions to address the digital divide, search for solutions collaboratively using social media, and many more." (Publisher description)
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"En el primer momento de nuestra investigación plantearemos un estado de situación de la pastoral de la comunicación, analizando algunos documentos del magisterio pontificio desde comienzo del siglo XX hasta nuestros días. Presentaremos las perspectivas y las actitudes de la Iglesia en su víncu
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lo con los medios de comunicación y las líneas pastorales propuestas para afrontar los desafíos culturales suscitados por el impacto de las tecnologías de la comunicación en cada momento de la historia [...] Hemos dicho que somos testigos de los cambios culturales que han producido las tecnologías de la comunicación, pero ¿qué entendemos por el concepto de cultura? A partir de algunos autores, en un segundo momento profundizaremos brevemente en esta noción, a la luz de las ciencias humanísticas, de la antropología y la sociología. Presentaremos también la evolución de este concepto en el magisterio eclesial desde el Concilio Vaticano II hasta nuestros días, llegando a la definición de cultura que propone Papa Francisco en la exhortación Evangelii Gaudium, asumiendo el valioso aporte elaborado por el magisterio latinoamericano. A continuación presentaremos una descripción de la cultura comunicativa actual a la luz de tres autores, Henry Jenkins, Ruggero Eugeni y Luciano Floridi, quienes han investigado las tecnologías de la comunicación y su impacto en el hombre y la sociedad. Por último, presentaremos el aporte de Massimiliano Padula y Filippo Ceretti, que propondrán un retorno a la dimensión antropológica de la comunicación a la que llamarán humanidad medial [...] Luego de adentrarnos en este contexto comunicativo y su impacto en la cultura, la pregunta se hace evidente: ¿cómo pensar una pastoral de la comunicación en esta cultura postmedial? A partir de este análisis intentaremos presentar en el último capítulo algunos elementos para diseñar una pastoral medial hoy. Desde la perspectiva antropológica de las tecnologías de la comunicación, buscaremos reconocer cuál es el kairós propio de este tiempo que nos toca vivir, proponiendo algunos criterios para diseñar una pastoral medial con un nuevo estilo evangelizador a la luz de las enseñanzas de Papa Francisco. No es nuestra intención proponer una guía exhaustiva sobre cómo elaborar y establecer un plan de comunicación eclesial, sino presentar algunos elementos que sirvan como “materia prima” para la reflexión y el discernimiento sobre cómo llevar adelante una pastoral de la comunicación que sea evangelizadora en y de la cultura postmedial." (Introducción, página 6-7)
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"Este livro reúne experiências e reflexões de académicos e não académicos sobre as potencialidades dos media para envolver e capacitar comunidades. Ao longo destas páginas, encontram-se textos que documentam propostas educativas e cívicas em torno dos media ou refletem sobre as capacidades d
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os media para trabalhar no seio das comunidades, incluindo as esferas da infância/juventude e/ou dos adultos e seniores. As metodologias participativas têm uma grande tradição em países da América Latina, de África e da Ásia e estão agora a ser mais usadas na Europa, particularmente, em Portugal. Esta inspiração reflete-se nas diferentes geografias que podem ser encontradas nesta obra, desde Reino Unido, Alemanha ou Brasil, até ao Quénia. Este livro está dividido em quatro partes. Uma primeira foca-se no projeto que deu mote ao livro, o RadioActive Europe, dando conta das suas práticas em Portugal e noutros países europeus. De seguida, juntamos experiências comunitárias e participativas nacionais e internacionais e, por fim, expomos vários caminhos de reflexão em torno da literacia e dos media." (Sinopse)
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"Today, DIY- do-it-yourself - describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways (as in Egypt's "Twitter revolution" of 2011) and to repurpose corporate content (or create new user-generated content) in order to offer political counternar
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ratives. This book examines the usefulness and limits of DIY citizenship, exploring the diverse forms of political participation and "critical making" that have emerged in recent years. The authors and artists in this collection describe DIY citizens whose activities range from activist fan blogging and video production to knitting and the creation of community gardens. Contributors examine DIY activism, describing new modes of civic engagement that include Harry Potter fan activism and the activities of the Yes Men. They consider DIY making in learning, culture, hacking, and the arts, including do-it-yourself media production and collaborative documentary making." (Back cover)
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"The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transformation with pieces on social media, peer production, copyright politics, and other aspects of contemporary internet culture from all the major thinkers in the field. Culling a broad range and incorporating different s
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tyles of scholarship from foundational pieces and published articles to unpublished pieces, journalistic accounts, personal narratives from blogs, and whitepapers, The Social Media Reader promises to be an essential text, with contributions from Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Clay Shirky, Tim O'Reilly, Chris Anderson, Yochai Benkler, danah boyd, and Fred von Loehmann, to name a few. It covers a wide-ranging topical terrain, much like the internet itself, with particular emphasis on collaboration and sharing, the politics of social media and social networking, Free Culture and copyright politics, and labor and ownership. Theorizing new models of collaboration, identity, commerce, copyright, ownership, and labor, these essays outline possibilities for cultural democracy that arise when the formerly passive audience becomes active cultural creators, while warning of the dystopian potential of new forms of surveillance and control." (Publisher description)
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"The essays collected here capture the richness of current discourse about democracy and cyberspace. Some contributors offer front-line perspectives on the impact of emerging technologies on politics, journalism, and civic experience. What happens, for example, when we increase access to information
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or expand the arena of free speech? Other contributors place our shifting understanding of citizenship in historical context, suggesting that notions of cyber-democracy and online community must grow out of older models of civic life. Still others consider the global flow of information and test our American conceptions of cyber-democracy against developments in other parts of the world. How, for example, do new media operate in Castro's Cuba, in post-apartheid South Africa, and in the context of multicultural debates on the Pacific Rim? For some contributors, the new technologies endanger our political culture; for others, they promise civic renewal." (Publisher description)
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