Today, media literacy in our society is no longer a distant horizon, but an intrinsic necessity for development in harmony with the environment. Broadly speaking, it refers to the ability to read, analyze, evaluate, and produce digital forms of communication. It involves understanding how media are created, distributed, consumed, and interpreted. Media literacy is important because media influence how we think and behave as individuals and as a society. In this sense, digital skills are the skills needed to use digital technology effectively. Digital literacy includes skills such as surfing the web, emailing, working with digital files, using social networks and applications, and protecting privacy and security online. Digital skills are important because digital technologies are increasingly present in our daily lives and at work.

Therefore, digital literacy must be fully implemented not only in the university environment, but also in teachers and learners, as well as in each one of the citizens who make up an advanced society that is almost defined as technological.

 

Keywords: media literacy, digital abilities, training resources, digital competence, communication.

Deadline: 15/03/23

 

 

Coordinated by:

 

Kris Buyse

PhD at KU Leuven (Belgium) and teaches Spanish and Foreign Language Teaching at the Leuven Language Institute (ILT) and the Faculty of Arts (Antwerp, Leuven, and Kortrijk). At the ILT he coordinates the research activities and is responsible for Spanish for Specific Purposes (Economical and Medical). At the Faculty of Arts he is responsible for the Master of Teaching in Spanish and co-responsible for the Master of Teaching in Languages in general. He also coordinates, along with Isabelle Delaere, the interdisciplinary Centre for Applied Language Research. Outside KU Leuven, Kris is a member of the research groups LAELE (Lingüística Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas Extranjeras) and REALL (Research in Affective Language Learning) at Universidad Nebrija (Madrid) and Universidad de Huelva, respectively. His publications and lectures are on the output and/of discussion of corpus based research in (or at the crossroads of) the following areas: language didactics and acquisition(particularly vocabulary, writing skills, pronunciation, feedback, motivation and affectivity, assessment), Corpus Linguistics, Lexicography, Contrastive Linguistics, LSP –particulary economic and medical-, CALL, Spanish as a Foreign Language, Heritage Learning and Translation Studies. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1112-1708

 

María Elena Jiménez-Pérez

PhD at the University of Malaga (Spain), she is a specialist in the learning competences defined by the European Union from a neuroeducational perspective (critical, digital or reading competences, among others). She has been invited to speak at conferences in Europe and Latin America; she is a blind reviewer for journals such as Comunicar, R. de Psicodidáctica or Reading and Writing, and she leads the ELLA research team. She designed the digital literacy tool DIGIGLO, published in the journal BJET. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1658-1220

 

Pedro García Guirao

PhD in the Department of Spanish Language and General Linguistics at the University of Murcia (Spain). BA and MA in Philosophy, he received his PhD in Modern Languages ​​& Linguistics from the University of Southampton (United Kingdom). A firm defender of multidisciplinarity, he is an expert in cultural studies on exile, in applied linguistics, in education, in L2/FL and in innovative promotion of silent and aloud reading in digital environments. In addition to being (or having been) a professor, researcher, and member of research groups at universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic (Ostravská univerzita), Poland, and Spain, he works as a professional reader, translator, and editorial advisor for Penguin Random House, Caligrama, and Octahedron. University. In the same way, he works as a guest editor in the scientific journal Frontiers in Psychology (and Educational Psychology) with a special issue dedicated to reading (“Reading and Writing Skills: Cognitive, Emotional, Creative, and Digital Approaches”) and is part of, among others, from the editorial team of the magazine Investigaciones Sobre Lectura (ISL). https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6641-508X