3º Workshop

Alternative Communication, Interculturality, Social Processes, and Educommunicational Approaches for Social Transformation in the Digital Era

Instructions are the same as for General Conference: view them here.

To upload an article to this Workshop, access the following link and, before the title of the contribution, place the code «WS_3»: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icomta23

Summary:

This workshop aims to foster interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on alternative communication, interculturality, social processes, and educommunicational approaches for social transformation in the current scenario of the digital era. It addresses aspects from a dialogical and participatory perspective. Its paradigmatic focus lies within the critical stream of communication, as well as the historical-cultural educational perspective. It problematizes culture from an epistemological, theoretical, and methodological standpoint. The objective is to reflect on processes of transformation in social and communicational reality, based on studies that gather research on processes committed to society, alternative media and content management, educational and community organization spaces, and intercultural educommunication.

Furthermore, the aim is to generate research from the outlined perspectives, both in digital media scenarios and in human communication of phenomena related to groups in situations of social inequality such as the LGBTQ+ community, children, adolescents, women, migrants, refugees, people with disabilities, older adults, individuals deprived of liberty, and their families. The goal is to understand both the narratives in the media and the forms of interaction and meanings that permeate their everyday practices.

The analysis is informed by an intersectional perspective involving gender, class, and ethnicity, allowing for the compilation, analysis, problematization, and proposals for action from communication, educommunication, and social processes. All of this is based on a principle that centralizes the voices of the subjects under study, from which strategies can be implemented for the dissemination and awareness of the various facets linked to the fields of study.

General Coordinator:

  • Lorena Alvarez G, Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi (Ecuador)

Technical Coordinator and Organizing Committee:

  • Paolo Arévalo, Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi (Ecuador)
  • Jorge Cruz, Pontificia Universidad Católica (Ecuador)

Scientific Comittee:

  • Franklin Falconí. Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi (Ecuador)
  • Lucía Naranjo, Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi (Ecuador)
  • Pablo Esteban Lomas, Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi (Ecuador)
  • Juan Pablo Toro, Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi (Ecuador)
  • Paola Salinas, Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi (Ecuador)
  • Paulina Tamayo, Universidad Técnica de Ambato (Ecuador)