Index Comunicación (Oct 2017)
From ICT to TRIC. A new socio-communicational reality in Cuba
Abstract
Technology has become one of the essential components of the contemporary world. Technological advances and their repercussion in society have become a new way of interacting and communicating socially, which represents new relationships between the Social System (SS) and the Communication System (SC). The R-elational Factor of TRIC provides a glimpse of this phenomenon beyond the mere technical component, because by introducing the term relational attention is shifted to the possible air of interaction, which can arise from this platform. This paper presents a contextualization of TRICs to the Cuban context. For this, the use of these technologies and the relationships derived from their use in different social areas, such as the educational one, are analyzed. In the same way it gathers some of the main theoretical conceptions about this phenomenon, which are taken as starting point for the analysis.