Sociedad del Conocimiento y Tecnologías Aplicadas a la Educación

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    Construcción del conocimiento, prácticas de lectura y usos de las tecnologías digitales
    (Universidad ORT Uruguay, 2024-1-1) Ayala, Soledad Analia
    The analysis of the relationship between digital technologies and communication requires a critical approach and a perspective that necessarily considers the study of power relations, the ubiquity of the objects of study and the specificities and complexity of their uses. In conversation with InMediaciones de la Comunicación, the well-known Canadian researcher DeNel Rehberg Sedo of Mount Saint Vincent University, Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Women and Gender Studies, and co-director of Beyond the Book Project, offers us a unique and enriching dialogue to understand how the themes of the three axes proposed in this dossier are mutually interrelated. The discussion explains the manner in which power relations and economic interests influence what we read, our use of digital devices and the consumption of information on various digital platforms, the needs of policies on digital literacy and the challenges - and the long way to go - related to access to information today. For this purpose, she quotes the contributions of renowned authors in the field, such as Jose van Dijk, the work carried out within the framework of the Society for the History of Authorship Reading and Publishing (SHARP), and the international research carried out jointly with Danielle Fuller. On this occasion, in her interview with InMediaciones de la Comunicación, she analyses in depth the microsystems of social media, because according to her point of view, this allows us to recognize regional differences, identify the affordances of the platforms, point out the current analytical challenges of research “online” and “offline” life, and the most relevant issue for her: the material and symbolic access to information. This dialogue between two researchers, a Canadian and an Argentinean, is a journey that takes a look at power relations and the way in which the business model of the platforms configures different uses of digital technologies and the multiple ways of constructing knowledge according to social practices, working conditions and available time.