Vigías mediáticos. El observatorio mediático escolar como mediación pedagógico-simbólica en la apropiación de lenguajes digitales y su relación con el poder

Abstract

This article presents the results of a doctoral research focused on the reading, understanding and appropriation of digital languages and their relationship with power, which was implemented at the Francisco de Paula Santander School, a public institution in Bogotá and which led to the creation of a School Media Observatory, called Vigías Mediaticos. Through an action research methodology with a qualitative approach, analysis, production and reflection processes were designed around media discourses from a socio-semiotic, pedagogical and political perspective. The study shows the transformation of students from instrumental users to critical and observer subjects, capable of identifying, analyzing and redefining messages present in communicative ecosystems. It is concluded that critical media literacy, articulated from pedagogical-symbolic mediation, allows reconfiguring the links between education, communication and citizenship, proposing the school as a space of symbolic resistance against the hegemonic discourses of algorithmic capitalism.