RT Journal Article
T1 Self-destructive content in university teaching: new challenge in the Digital Competence of Educators
A1 Sixto García, José
A1 Melo, Ana Duarte
K1 ICT skil
K1 Moobile technolog
K1 Teaching innovation
K1 Digital natives
K1 University students
K1 Learning networks
K1 Transmedia storytelling
K1 Continuing education
AB The Z are the first digital native people gaining access to university. It is a generation that registers high rates of social media consumption, but their digital competence is not as outstanding as one might expect due to the training’ deficiency they have acquired in previous educational levels caused, among other reasons, by the primary and secondary teachers’ low digital competence. The current research aims to identify the demand for using social networks and messaging apps 2.0 in university teaching. A quantitative methodology was employed in order to know the technological prospects of the university Z in the Euroregion Galicia-North of Portugal, in the context of an Erasmus mobility. The results confirm the necessity to continue using social media, but only those within the students’ technological comfort zone; thus, it is necessary to combine transmedia storytelling with the insertion of technological proposals in environments initially not conceived for learning. It is concluded that the Z are starting to claim the use of state-of-the-art resources such as self-destructive content, which requires an immediate improvement in the university educators’ digital competence by means of continuing training programmes, since only the pioneer educators with a C2 level can detect and pay attention to this type of demands
PB Universidad de Navarra
SN 0214-0039
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24504
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24504
LA eng
NO Sixto-García, J. & Duarte Melo, A. G. S. (2020). Self-destructive content in university teaching: new challenge in the Digital Competence of Educators. Communication & Society,33(3),187-199
NO This research was funded thanks to the Erasmus+ program; the project of the State Program of Research, Development and Innovation oriented to social challenges ‘Uses and information preferences in the new media map in Spain: journalism models for mobile devices’ (Reference: CSO2015-64662-C4-4-R), from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, co-financed by the FEDER structural fund; and to the International Communication Management Research Network (XESCOM)
DS Minerva
RD 29 abr 2026