Juvenile Practices in Audiovisual Communication: Beyond the Classroom

Juvenile practices are associated with very specific social and cultural contexts. This work is situated within the environment of western societies, be it European or American. The groups living there are undoubtedly defined by specific traits, but also by other common ones, especially by the fact that they participate in a global universe mediated by digital instruments, where mobility and swiftness in communication prevail. I shall reflect on this matter within these pages: I will first show what it means to live in a mobile society, and then I will dwell on the educational opportunities that this offers outside the classroom: for example, the way in which, within the environments generated therein, young people can learn to build stories or think scientifically, as well as to develop multimodal languages and, finally, to become aware of the fact that they live in communities where values are shared.