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Digital Inclusion and Computational Thinking: New Challenges and Opportunities for Media Professionals

Digital Inclusion and Computational Thinking: New Challenges and Opportunities for Media Professionals
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Author(s): Walter Teixeira Lima Jr. (Methodist University of São Paulo, Brazil)and Rafael Vergili (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 14
Source title: Handbook of Research on Comparative Approaches to the Digital Age Revolution in Europe and the Americas
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Brasilina Passarelli (School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, Brazil), Joseph Straubhaar (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)and Aurora Cuevas-Cerveró (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8740-0.ch008

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Abstract

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) brought new players to an environment that subverts industrial logic of communication, visibility and representation. The issue of digital inclusion is still latent, especially in developing countries, such as Brazil. However, with initiatives that facilitate access to technological innovations and ever cheaper devices, possession, remixing and distribution of information are no longer exclusive to large companies or mass media vehicles. Anyone with network access and knowledge about certain topics can generate content for various parts of the world. In this context of constant change, the media professional is faced with new challenges and, in order to gain competitive advantage in the labor market or in the academic environment needs to more adequately understand the technological environment in which he/she is inserted, topics that are discussed under the prism of computational thinking and digital literacy concepts, possible foundations for new paths of his/her activities.

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