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The vulnerability translates in concrete human groups that, although they know what occurs around them in a digital matter, by his own social and cultural condition they are alienated and, in this sense, away of the exercise of the information right. The aim has been to analyze [...]

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The use of social networks for protest purposes has been an essential element in recent global protests against the economic measures of privatization of public services. Social networks are changing political communication, mobilization and organization of collective protests. [...]

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This article analyses the status of media literacy in Brazil from the perspective of non-formal education. It quantifies the situation through a sample of projects (N=240) and organizations (N=107) that develop media literacy activities according to the internationally recognized [...]

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The current paper is based on the hypothesis that communication through the new digital technologies modifies the moral response of users, and therefore reduces social capital. This approach has been contrasted by designing and conducting an experiment (N=196) using our own adaptation [...]

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The effective recognition of an intercultural social framework in a democratic society can be achieved through the use of mass media in the teaching and learning process. Thus taking advantage of both new technologies and mass media in the ESO classroom m

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The violent and pornographic contents that appear in the mass media exercise a negative influence on children and young men(women). This influence, according to the authoress of this paper, owes to a cultural invasion that propagates with the new technolo

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In our times, globalization determinates that identity must be built by comsuption. A citizen is not anymore one voice in public opinion, but a consumer´s choice. People do not belong to a nation, but to a «consumers´community of common understanding». Me

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Since its very beginning television has always had the contents as an angular stone, basic source composing the wire netting of programmes that move the audio-visual sector, due that the interest of various actors of communication, State, announcers, TV chains and producers turn around [...]

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To transform an individual pain into a collective feeling of suffering is a capacity of all mass media. However, television has, in this point, a tremendous power. The capacity to join millions of TV viewers in front of itself is its most admirable merit, but it’s also its most [...]

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The aim of this paper is to show the evolution of Italian media education landscape in the last fifteen years and also to analyse its main challenges for the next future. The starting point is an investigation on Italian media educational situation carried out in 2005, which provides [...]