Young people confronting the challenge of reading and interpreting a digital world

Jordi Castellví Mata; Breogán Tosar Bacarizo; Antoni Santisteban Fernández

doi:10.5565/REV/JTL3.905

Young people confronting the challenge of reading and interpreting a digital world

Jordi Castellví Mata, Breogán Tosar Bacarizo, Antoni Santisteban Fernández

Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

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Critical citizenship education must consider the global and digital context in which we live. Digital media and global processes have a decisive influence on people’s daily lives. However, digital literacy programs rarely go beyond teaching technological skills. Similarly, critical thinking approaches to education focus on developing cognitive skills, omitting the weight of values and emotions in decision making. This research analyses Spanish secondary school students’ narratives and reflections about two publications on Twitter that present biased information to encourage undemocratic attitudes. The results show that most students are far from being critical of the information they read on the internet, and they easily fall into the trap of defending undemocratic discourses.

Translated title of the contribution	Jóvenes enfrentando el reto de leer e interpretar un mundo digital
Original language	English
Article number	e905
Number of pages	17
Journal	Bellaterra Journal of Teaching and Learning Language and Literature
Volume	14
Issue number	2
Early online date	1 May 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5565/REV/JTL3.905
Publication status	Published - 20 Jul 2021

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