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19
Jan 10

Suspended in media and digital literacy

Although recent years the evolution of technology and media in Spain, had reached a heavy force, Spain is in the 14e site below the European average within the process digital literacy.

The study titled Asessment Criteria for Media Literacy Levels, was designed by Communication and Education at the UAB and directed by Professor José Pérez Tornero. This examines 27 countries where the level of media literacy, the ability of citizens to measure the use of technologies and media, indicating that these low levels of media literacy, establishes a major difficulty for economic development and cultural whole of Spanish society.

These studies appear in several proposals in order to encourage media literacy, echoing efforts in promoting and implementing in the field of education policy, seeking new forms of curriculum innovation, improve public services and provide audiovisual families access to the information society. For their part, the european states should devote more attention to develop the critical sense of their citizens to deepen and enhance active citizenship and participative democracy.

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12
Jun 09

I’m green or red, or blue could be

Today, elections are held in Iran to choose its new president after a campaign where the battlefield was the site. To growing, many Iranians in Facebook, have changed their profile pictures to the green, green almost psychedelic. It is the color of Islam, which also has a political compromise in favor of Mir Hossein Mousavi, who now have the support of reformers. This is facing the current president Mahmoud Ahmadineyad, represented by the red color of its militants, although fewer in number but with a similar power to the network. In addition to his personal blog, it has five websites and support the dissemination of videos on YouTube, where does not hesitate to resume its more controversial statements about Israel, highlighting his speech on racism at the UN conference held in Geneva.

The distribution of color, came out of choose the order of candidates speeches TV does for just over a week, the representative of Ahmadineyad extracted the ball from the red and the green ball the representative Mousavi. Since then, the campaign has been impregnated color. On the Internet, the symbolic appropriation by the young has been vigorously with on display photo montages colored green and the girls with their nails painted green and covered with a same color scarf. Accompanied with techno background music very powerful.

All this after a censure by the Iranian authorities, who banned access to Facebook, for reproach for a few days later. According to Iranian news agency IRNA, the ban was "because the followers of Mir Hossein Mousavi candidate had been able to use Facebook to increase awareness of the candidate's positions." The reformer candidate had passed the 5000 friends at that time. It also has a profile on Flickr, with nearly a thousand photos that show the fury of the people regarding the elections and another on Twitter.

From this chromatic symbolism, the blue was the color of their supporters to boycott the elections. Remember the war of colors that lived in the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the Rose Revolution in Georgia

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25
May 09

Digital Journalist

Santiago Gala

With Web 2.0, the media has adapted quickly to a whole new set of formats, on blogs and video network provides a way to quickly access the information. Newspapers and periodicals have their own portal to the network, which allows reporters more information and facilitate very fast facts of the news. With the addition of video, news writing is complemented with images, creating a hybrid between the written press and television.

Although the role of the press have created a place in the digital environment, many other media have been born thanks to the Internet. Vilaweb is the first English newspaper on line, born in May 1996 as a news portal. With local editions represent a handful of Catalan cities, created from the demand of people and different groups of people who wanted to replicate the model Vilaweb in their city. Even a local release in Australia, sponsored by the Catalans living in Melbourne.

This change has led many journalists to incorporate the tools of the Internet 2.0 in their work. Many use the blog or wiki to publish the news and most relevant information, even when it occurs. Karma Peiró is one of the Catalan journalists used the blog as a tool of communication, following events in-house, and the reports from your laptop wherever there is news for half of his blog. This weekend has been following closely the various papers in InnovaCamp Mediterrania, hanging all the information minute by minute to block their Stories from a Digital Journalist.

Wikidiario is a citizen journalism project aimed at enhancing the participation of users in the construction of information, half of the tools of Web 2.0, inviting them to make contributions of any topic that may be of interest, enhancing information proximity to any geographical area. This process produces a good combination of participation and quality of information, where citizens provide relevant information, which will be subsequently validated and consolidated by journalists. With the collaboration of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and la Universidad Autónoma de México.

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