Media literacy education in the CV of journalists

• Main Authors: Alejandro Buitrago, Joan Ferrés, Agustín García Matilla
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos 2015-03-01
• Series: Index Comunicación
• Subjects: comunicación audiovisual; enseñanza; educomunicación; alfabetización; Education; Communication; Curriculum; Media Literacy; Media Competence; Journalism
• Online Access: http://journals.sfu.ca/indexcomunicacion/index.php/indexcomunicacion/article/view/170

The aim of this article is to present some of the findings of the research: <em>Media Competence. The diagnosis of the three contexts: the professional one, the university level, and the compulsory educational leve</em>l”. Since 2011, the research groups have worked in this project with more than 50 researchers of 18 spanish universities. In previous works, the antecedents of Media Literacy have been studied collecting the contributions of several authors of media education. For more than five decades, a good deal of researchers have investigated the wide context of <em>educommunication</em> in Europe and Latin America. The traditional context of Literacy has been an inspiration to include other lenguages like the audiovisual media ones. First, the concept of media literacy won the battle but nowadays hypermedia, multimedia and transmedia, have taken over.