Healing a generation: Transmedia literacy and collective intelligence to promote participatory democracy in Venezuela

Session Description

Emerging technologies facilitate and promote the free exchange of knowledge becoming the ideal platforms for learning and civic engagement. Transmedia narratives are characterized by telling stories complemented through a media ecosystem, involving the participation of the audiences. Transmedia literacy has positioned itself in virtual education as a fundamental strategy for transformative learning. The creative component of this pedagogy opens up new spaces of engagement favoring the construction of democracies. Dynamics generated between students and the audiences promote an active community that interacts through social networks establishing the basis of a collective intelligence. The goal of this presentation is to share, through a range of multimedia tools, the results of a research conducted from 2015 to 2021, describing the learning benefits of transmedia literacy on a group of 2.000 Venezuelan communication’s learners living under structural violence. The project aims to train global citizens capable of performing adequately in the communication's field designing and implementing of projects that encourage collaborative work and citizen’s participation. Students become protagonists of their own learning having a leading role on promoting the gestation of a living, diverse and emerging community. The learner's work fosters an open educational approach, focused on the free exchange of knowledge that can be emulated by educators in digital pedagogical contexts.

 

Presenter(s)

José Luis Jiménez
Andrés Bello Catholic University

José Luis Jiménez is an instructional designer, techno scientist, and Project Coordinator for the Collaborative Online International Learning program. Expert in virtual exchange and university professor with more than 35 years of international experience. His research areas include technoscience; transmedia journalism; human rights; complex systems and the environment; sustainable development, and human ecology. He is a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Studies at Florida Atlantic University. In 1993 he was honored with a scholarship from the OAS to complete his Master of Arts at The American University in Washington, D.C. His work and publications include: the video "Caring for the Earth '' for the UN Environment Programme; and Building empathy through a comparative study of popular cultures in Caracas, Venezuela, and Albany, United States.

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