Understanding the media sphere’s extensions: Testing knowledge by a quiz

• Main Authors: Fábio Ribeiro, Pedro Moura, Luís António Santos
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores de Comunicación para América Latina (CIESPAL) 2018-08-01
• Series: Chasqui
• Subjects: entretenimento; avaliação; aprendizagem; jogo; pesquisa
• Online Access: https://revistachasqui.org/index.php/chasqui/article/view/3397

The evaluation of knowledges regarding the media sphere is a growing activity, despite little consensus about how to do it. Notwithstanding these uncertainties, surveys are regularly used. This article presents the main outcomes of a quiz about the media. The game was played by 48 youngsters and adults. This experience sought to explore what people recognize in the media sphere and how can a game help in the task of assessing it. The analysis suggests that positive answers were mostly found among visual-based questions, in contrast to the ones related to sounds. This research also suggests the existence of “universal symbols”, recognizable by (almost) everyone. As a research method, the quiz was helpful to foster engagement, particularly when it became a one-o-one challenge.