Transmedia Literacy in Colombia: Informal learning strategies of young gamers in precarious contexts

Abstract

In an environment of convergent devices and narrations, young people are acquiring a set of skills through informal learning strategies developed by their daily contact with technology. Within the frame of an international research project, this study proposes the ethnographic observation of the practices and uses of digital media by students of public schools in Bogota (Colombia). The result is the description and analysis of emergent transmedia learning competences related to videogames, regarded as a form of participatory culture.

Keywords

• videojuegos
• cultura participativa
• estrategias de aprendizaje informal