Communication and education in a digital connected world. Presentation

Abstract

The digital transformation builds societies based on participatory and connected logics where citizens become network users who participate on equal terms from mobile devices. The increasingly naturalized virtual interaction, accentuated after the last events of global confinement by the Covid-19 pandemic, forces a continuous reflection on communication and education as determining factors in the advancement of society. The question that emerges in the face of inexorable technological penetration and connectivity is whether they are carrying out the appropriate actions and practices for this resulting critical and democratic participation. In this context, this monograph is presented where communication and education are intertwined to offer specific contributions in four areas: 1) communication addressed in the educational field: journalism in the classroom and transmedia skills; 2) social networks as spaces for communication and education: use of Twitter and Instagram in an educational context, bots, misinformation, rumors and digital skills; 3) new connected generations, and 4) emerging actors in communication and education: youtubers, OTT platform gamers and family responsibility.