부산대학교 도서관

This doctoral dissertation analyses the elements of the dialogical learning that, applied to the media literacy processes, achieve to overcome the digital divide and to generate greater social participation and transformation in adult participants. For the consecution of this objective, a case study has been carried out, under the paradigm of the communicative methodology, and developed at the Omnia Point of the Association of Participants Ágora – La Verneda-Sant Martí Adult School. Omnia Point is a technology access project managed since 1999 by adult people in processes of basic education, where media literacy is carried out based on the principles of dialogic learning. This methodology allows adult people not only to learn technologies, but also to socially empower, hence achieving a greater social participation and transformation. The main results of the case of study show that its success is founded on two mainstays: on the one hand, a process of media literacy with the egalitarian dialogue as base for the learning interactions among the adult people to achieve results of academic excellence; on the other hand, the existence of participation mechanisms based on pretensions of validity and which facilitate the inclusion of the voices of the adult people themselves in the management of the Omnia Point. The structure of the doctoral dissertation is organized in five sections. The first one presents the state of the art: the four basic elements of this doctoral dissertation are defined –information society, information and communication technology, adult education and digital divide–, and the concept and dimensions of media literacy are introduced. In the second section, the questions of research, objectives and hypothesis of this doctoral dissertation are expounded. Besides, the methodology and analytical strategy followed are explained, as well as the field work performed. The third section reviews the main contributions from the postmodern discourse and the transforming perspective to the appropriation of technologies in the current information society. The fourth section describes the case of study context of learning and gathers the results of the field work analysis. Finally, the fifth section systematizes the conclusions corroborating the main hypothesis and sub-hypothesis considered.