[ecrea] Digital Communicators / ICOD Network

>DIGITAL COMMUNICATORS
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>The fast expansion of digital media has been a 
>shock for institutions where future 
>communicators are being trained. The accelerated 
>rhythm that technology has given all social 
>activities has left communication degrees - both 
>in Europe and Latin America - quite out of sync 
>with reality: some of them where born two or 
>three decades ago, and they were projects that 
>had in mind a type of professional and a labour 
>market that are now endangered species.
>
>In this context, digital content has been 
>randomly incorporated in traditional 
>communication degrees, without really defining 
>the competences that the digital society 
>demands. Digitalism, in this sense, currently 
>enters degrees in the form of a subject at the 
>end of the training path ("Digital Journalism", 
>"Multimedia Communication", etc.). Reality shows 
>that there is no non-digital media anymore: all 
>communication professionals work in an 
>environment that has a strong technological 
>content that affects his/her productive 
>routines, regardless of the final product 
>(newspaper, radio, web, TV, etc.). On the same 
>level, digital content has to be integrated into 
>study programmes in their entire structure, 
>without being relegated to the last years of the degrees.
>
>Keeping this in mind, the project developed by 
>the Red Iberoamericana de Comunicación Digital 
>(ICOD Network) aims to find specific answers 
>that accelerate communication degrees adapting to the new digital reality.
>
>Conclusions in <http://www.icod.ubi.pt>www.icod.ubi.pt
>

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