Transmedia literacy: taking advantage of adolescents’ transmedia skills in the classroom

Authors

  • Maria-José Masanet Departament de Comunicació de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  • Carlos A. Scolari Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Keywords:

Transmedia literacy, transmedia skills, informal learning strategies, adolescents, school.

Abstract

In this article, we present the Transalfabetismos project and we devote special attention to the results relating to teens’ photographic, video and fan-fiction production practices – the most common practices among this group. We present the data of the questionnaires, of the participatory workshops and of the interviews carried out in five autonomous regions of Spain. According to the data, there are different levels of production among adolescents: most teenagers have a spontaneous unplanned production while a small part carries out complex or very complex production processes or even professional ones. The context and support received by adolescents is the key factor in relation to their media practices. In the conclusions we ask how this knowledge and these abilities can be introduced into the classroom and we reflect on the need to enhance their value and recognition.

Keywords: Transmedia literacy, transmedia skills, informal learning strategies, adolescents, school.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

How to Cite

Masanet, M.-J., & Scolari, C. A. (2018). Transmedia literacy: taking advantage of adolescents’ transmedia skills in the classroom. Revista Catalana De Pedagogia, 14, 97–117. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/RCP/article/view/144986

Issue

Vol. 14 (2018)

Section

Miscellaneous

License

The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.
 
On submitting articles for publication to the journal Revista Catalana de Pedagogia, authors accept the following terms:
  1. Authors grant to Societat Catalana de Pedagogia (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Revista Catalana de Pedagogia.
  2. Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Pedagogia for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.
  3. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.
  4. Societat Catalana de Pedagogia declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.
  5. The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.
  6. The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.