EDUCOMMUNICATION AND ‘MEDIA LITERACY’: SPACES OF REFERENCE IN SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC DIFFUSION IN SPANISH

Abstract

The present research carries out a detailed review of the main spaces for disseminating research on educommunication and media literacy in the Iberoamerican space, taking as a reference high impact journals (JCR/Scopus), publications in emerging indexes (ESCI), historical publications of recognized trajectory and congresses of international reference. In the field of high-impact scientific journals, there is evidence of reduced space for publication in Spanish, which results in high rejection rates. Nevertheless, some journals of the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have improved their relative positioning, taking the baton from the educommunication thematic. Likewise, some historical publications of communication and education are reviewed, such as Comunicar Journal, a specialist in the subject, Chasqui Journal, Estudios Venezolanos de la Comunicación, Contratexto and Comunicação & Educação, some of them with more than 50 years of existence. It concludes with a list of the leading international congresses on the subject of education semination of this topic in Spanish.