La mediatización de la cultura, la modificación del interés y la atención de los alumnos

Abstract

This doctoral thesis is inscribed in the disciplinary field of Social Communication and was the result of an ethnographic research carried out in a high school in the context of poverty in the city of Cordoba, Argentina, between 2010 and 2011. The problem addressed is related to the existing difficulties at the secondary schools to teach contents. At the studied institution it was observed that, in general, students have worsened attitudes as neglect and disregard for the knowledge provided as well as strong difficulties to develop literacy activities. This produces low scores, grade repetition, dropouts, tensions in institutional relationships and the loss of a sense of what the school offers. Currently, there is a disagreement between what the school expects from students and how they perform that role. From this thesis approach, we take the perspective of analysis that studies the media into the fabric of culture from the notion of "mediatisation" (Martin-Barbero,2002). The new media has radically transformed the relationship with knowledge. Nowadays, knowledge circulates and it is produced and received from outside school, books and the word of the teacher. Young people come to school with a subjectivity strongly built on these mediatisations, which comes into tension with the one required by the practice at traditional schools. The overall aim of this study was to establish links between the cultural aspects of school practice and the media practices for the youth that enable us to explain how it has generated the intensification of disinterest and neglect in the students in relation to what the school provides...