Class Research Methodologies in Media and Information Literacy I

With this UC we aim to provide the students with rigorous conceptual tools enabling them to investigate in the area of MIL.

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1. Introduction: 1.1. Specific domains of research in media education: online and offline interactions, specificities, and differences. 2. Historical Evolution: 2.1. Chicago School (John Dewey); 2.2. Participatory Action Research (Paulo Freire); 2.3. Ethnographic studies: from off to online. 3. The dilemmas between qualitative research and quantitative research. 4. Research concepts, methods and techniques 5. Aspects to be taken into account in the preparation of a research 6. From the influence of traditional methodology to new methodological concepts. 7. Analysis of social networks. 8. The problematic and the questioning in the investigation.

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