This research arises from the need to know the elements that have an impact on the audiovisual competencies of adolescents during the confinements provoked to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The purpose is to diagnose the development of audiovisual communication skills among Ecuadorian adolescents as a contribution to sustainability, based on the intervention of educational actors. The methodology is qualitative, with a descriptive approach. The instruments used were: focus groups with parents, students, and teachers from public and private institutions in Ecuador; semi-structured interviews with experts: and non-participant observation. It can be concluded that adolescents acquire audiovisual skills, processes, and languages autonomously before entering college, but they do so without the social context, ethical values and responsibilities that should be part of complete media learning. The demands of online learning during the pandemic have resulted in the development of skills and attitudes, but they have not led to full media literacy. It is pertinent to provoke innovations and updates in the curricula of higher education, specifically in the careers of social communication, in order to be aware of the technological changes on the basis of deontological principles and in favour of democratic values, tolerance, and responsibility with the sustainability of nature and people.

The presence of social networks and the change of the traditional roles of teachers and students are a requirement on the educational centers in space to universities to integrate the new social dynamics in the classroom. The purpose of this investigation is to determine the use of social networks in the formation of social communicators. The methodology used was qualitative from semi-structured interviews with students, teachers and researchers of Communication Schools of Ecuador and a survey of university students. It was concluded that there is the use of social networks and networking. The teachers prefer to Twitter and Facebook students. It is increasingly frequent dialog through social networks among the actors of the educational process in the universities of Ecuador.

El propósito de esta investigación es identificar las impresiones y emociones que genera la fotografía en las personas al ser expuestas a un análisis interpretativo. Para este estudio se analizó la fotografía The firs Embrance de Mads Nissen 2020, ganadora del concurso World Press Photo 2021. La investigación es de tipo experimental, se emplea la metodología inductiva-cualitativa. Se aplicó un cuestionario a ciudadanos de forma aleatoria y se uso la técnica de observación para la comprensión de los códigos de fotografía. Por naturaleza creemos en la fotografía y damos por entendido que cualquier persona, con independencia de su estrato económico, cultural y social sin instrucción formal es capaz de entenderla y decodificarla correctamente. El análisis de las reacciones de los observadores concluyen que el acto fotográfico en el fotoperiodismo no termina con la publicación en las páginas de los medios, sino que despierta capacidades afectivas y emocionales en los observadores.

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