Screens' societies: Potentialities and limits for media education

Abstract

Social and technological transformations undergone during the last decades have lead to contemporary societies, where image has become one of the key elements. Although this process could be framed in qualitative dimensions, the simple observation of most of the citizenś daily lives would lead us to conclude that the presence of screens is one of the main characters of our closer environment. The increase and diversification of audiovisual devices do not walk together with a parallel augment of media literacy, which is still one of the pending subjects of the educational systems in the economically developed countries.