Abstract

The Spanish educative system is currently going through difficult times. Violence in schools, combined with a high failure rate, outlines the necessity of an education in values. On the one hand, mass media, together with the new information and communication technologies, play a crucial part in the development of civic ethics. On the other hand, the role of television, cinema and the Internet is decisive for the shaping of schoolchildren’s cultural identity. It is therefore primordial to conform the pedagogy of both the images and messages emitted on these media in order to enhance the pupils’ critical abilities, their social conscience building, as well as their cultural training.

Abstract

Television and publicity were never two independent screens as the second sustains the first, but since the end of the nineties Internet has become a meta-screen that feeds back, spreads and generates audio-visual and multimedia consumable contents. In spite of many institutional campaigns blessing the ICTs, we maintain that the concretion that publicity and the Internet have in the classroom is really scarce, at the same time that their presence in the street is enormous. This is our proposal: publicity keeps being a first school of models for our students, the Internet can be a channel for the exhibition, distribution, analysis and communication in the classroom in which publicity becomes an object of analysis and creative consumption.