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Three types of communities are defined: learning, interest and practice. Their characteristics, operation, commonalities and differences are discussed.
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The advances in technology, especially in the field of communication, cause mass media to constantly evolve- and thus not to perish. Indeed, this occurs in situations that [...]
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The elderly population has increased considerably in recent years and it is estimated that by 2050 32% of the Spanish population will be old people. This group is underrepresented [...]
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The paper presents the results of a survey of 1,552 journalism students from five public universities in Spain during academic year 2011-12. The research addresses two objectives: [...]
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This paper reports on collaborative research on and with young people. In this study five groups of students in the final year of their Compulsory Secondary Education (CSE) [...]
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Media fictional narrations on adolescents as characters and target are used by teenage audiences when looking for references for their identity building. As a starting point [...]
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This paper describes the results of a research study on the establishment of a Community of Practice through social eLearning and Computer Supported Collaborative Learning [...]
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The potential of technology in digital society offers multiple possibilities for learning. E-books constitute one of the technologies to which great attention has to be paid. [...]
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The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the classroom requires the creation of contextualized proposals which foster in students collaboration and the [...]
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Digital technologies offer new opportunities for learning in an increasingly connected society, in which learning to work with others and collaborate has become an extremely [...]
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This paper presents an exploratory analysis of the experience of educational innovation in the configuration of a social learning network in a subject for the Education degree [...]
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In this article we approach the topic of collaborative learning by means of the creation and maintenance of personal learning environments and networks (PLE and PLN) and their [...]
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Collaborative learning has a strong presence in technology-supported education and, as a result, practices being developed in the form of Computer Supported Collaborative [...]
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As a result of the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) we are currently experiencing a period of major changes. Higher education plays a key role [...]
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The aim of this article is to study in depth the changes taking place in the habits of adolescents using online communication, particularly due to the dramatic arrival of [...]
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This paper analyzes the representation of children’s gender in toy advertising on television during three different periods. To achieve our purpose, this study examines [...]
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This article presents the results of a quantitative and qualitative analysis of adolescent selfpresentations in Fotolog. The images which these adolescents create and share [...]
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One of the «black holes» of academic research in Communication is the shallowness of reflections on the classic origins of Communication, its aims and points of entry. In [...]
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The aim of this paper is to map out the research around the concept of interactivity, as well as to point out the dominant streams and underresearched areas. It is based upon [...]
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Communication can be understood, under an epistemological framework, as a macrocontext from which education participates as a part. One of the objectives of this work is to [...]
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At a time when academic activity in the area of communication is principally assessed by the impact of scientific journals, the scientific media and the scientific productivity [...]
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In this paper we review the socalled altmetrics or alternative metrics. This concept raises from the development of new indicators based on Web 2.0, for the evaluation of [...]
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Google Scholar Metrics' launch in April 2012, a new bibliometric tool for the evaluation of scientific journals by means of citation counting, has ended with the duopoly exerted [...]
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This study focuses on academic institutional repositories as tools that allow us open access to scientific and academic production. Specifically, we analyze the Top 50 European [...]
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The purpose of this research is to study the level of media literacy in a sample of elderly women, the so-called «silent generation», belonging to the Asturian Housewives [...]
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There is a widespread discourse across academic and scientific literature extolling the benefits of technology as an element of the educational process for people with disabilities [...]
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This paper presents the results of work on «Observar TV», a children’s observatory of television launched in the city of Barranquilla (Colombia) in which children participated [...]
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This paper describes the main contributions of the TV broadcasters in Spain to the study of the relationships between television and childhood. It is justified by the need [...]
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Social networks have become areas of social interaction among young people where they create a profile to relate with others. The way this population uses social networks [...]
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e-Research is changing practices and dynamics in social research by the incorporation of advanced e-tools to process data and increase scientific collaboration. Previous research [...]