Analfanauts and Fourth Screen: Lack of Infodiets and Media and Information Literacy in Latin American University Students

• Main Authors: Luis M. ROMERO RODRÍGUEZ, Ángel TORRES TOUKOUMIDIS, M. Amor PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ, Ignacio AGUADED
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2016-06-01
• Series: Fonseca: Journal of Communication
• Subjects: competencias mediáticas; competencias informacionales; competencias digitales; redes sociales; cuarta pantalla; Internet
• Online Access: http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/2172-9077/article/view/14615

Mobile devices have become an integral part of our lives. Through these terminals, users can not only communicate with their peers, but receive and produce vast amounts of information usually through social networks, making us in many ways in mass media. However, the question arises are we ready for it? In this research the problem of <em>analfanauts</em> understood as those individuals who dominate the digital skills necessary to interact with ICT is addressed, but lack sufficient media and information skills to avoid misinformation and structural infoxication present in the networks. In order to analyze these behaviors one quantitative and qualitative a sample of 1,603 university students in Colombia, Venezuela and Peru, consumption, use of social networks and making viral of pseudo-information in the communication system study will be conducted. The results present a forward-profile technical skills, relegating the analytical content consumption exposed digital media, which turns into an exponential growth of prosumer infoxication.