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The International
University of Andalusia (UNIA) opens a new permanent research line on
the practices and cultures emerging from the social uses of digital
technologies with its project: Space-Network of Digital Practices and Cultures
In general terms, the project
addresses the most significant aspects of the whole set of digital practices
and cultures, of how the incorporation of the new technologies into
the daily life of citizens/users is changing the forms of social interaction,
and subsequently, the configuration of contemporary societies, as well
as their institutions and communities.
Within this wide scope the
project is intended to focus more specifically on those aspects that
are priorities for higher education and ultimately, for the institutional
characteristics of UNIA.
To this purpose a special task
force has been set up, which will be responsible for organizing an activity
programme based on an agenda of topics defined as priorities in a first
stage, as well as for starting a cross-sectional academic module aimed
at acquiring digital skills (digital literacy), with the purpose of
feeding tools and reflections into the different graduate academic programmes
and plans offered by UNIA, which due to their specialized character
cannot devote a chapter to new technologies, despite of the role they
play in updating and further enhancing knowledge in all fields of study.
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