Journalism and technology: how to teach digital and audiovisual journalism

The paper presents two educational experiences of digital and audiovisual journalism in Journalism course at the Federal University of Alagoas: The agency of scientific news Ciencia Alagoas and the research group Comulti. These educational experiments are being developed as academic practices for the formation of a journalist on the scientific dissemination by the internet. In addition to technical, these two works have helped the critical exercise of the students in understanding the economic context, social, cultural and educational site and the importance of communication activity for promoting citizenship through access information about science. Following a brief background of Alagoas reality, we discuss the concept of technology in shaping the journalist. From there, the two pedagogical practices will be reported individually. In the final considerations, we suggest reflection on the formation of journalist due to the integration of theory and practice binomial versus technicality-humanism for a pluralistic and democratic communication.