5º Workshop


Tech & Generations: How Digital Technology Changed Generations?

Las instrucciones de envío y de publicación son las mismas que en la Conferencia General: consúltelas aquí.

Para subir un artículo a este Workshop, accede al siguiente link y, antes del título de la contribución, sitúa el código “WS_5”: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icomta23

Summary:

This workshop, intentionally named in both English and Spanish to narrow the hybridizations that also emerge in the language from the digital moment we live in, aims to generate a multidisciplinary discussion about what has happened to the generations of this digital era and how they have transformed (evolved?) hand in hand with technology.

Tech & Generations is directly associated with the consumption and production of content, expressed through the neologism «prosumption» – coined in 1980 by Toffler – which accounts for this dual activity of consumption and production, so characteristic of the space of social networks and digital communication.

From the perspective of media ecology, the workshop seeks to address the field of «hypermediations» based on Scolari’s understanding (2008). These refer not only to a greater (hyper) number of media and people involved in the communicative process but to the entire «web of referrals, hybridizations, and contaminations that digital technology, by reducing all textualities to a mass of bits, allows to articulate within the media ecosystem.»

Thus, this workshop aims to generate a discussion based on innovative and current studies, projects, and research that fall within the following thematic areas:

  • Digital Culture
  • Media Literacy
  • Consumption, Interaction, Production (prosumption)
  • Digital Gap
  • Digital Humanities

General Coordinator:

  • Jorge Cruz-Silva, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

Technical Coordinator:

  • Verónica Yépez-Reyes, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

Organizing Committee:

  • Branco Di Fátima, Universidade da Beira Interior UBI (Portugal)
  • Nancy Ulloa, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador – Sede Ibarra

Scientific Committee:

  • Marco López-Paredes, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador / OdeCom
  • Paola Ulloa, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (Ecuador)
  • Amaranta Alfaro, Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Chile)
  • Myriam Erazo, Universidad Nacional del Chimborazo (Ecuador)
  • María Alexandra López, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Chimborazo (Ecuador)