Youth Civic Engagement and Educommunication in Vulnerable Contexts. Case Study with Socio-Educational Organisation in Barcelona

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https://doi.org/10.62008/ixc/14/01Compro

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educommunication, audiovisual, civic engagement, young people, non-formal education

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This article aims to understand how manifestations of civic engagement emerge in young people from vulnerable contexts and how educommunicative processes could be useful to understand how they connect with civic engagement. These results stem from the case study of a Horizon 2020 project that took place from January to June 2022 with young people aged 16-18 from an educational association in the Raval neighbourhood in Barcelona. It involved 32 workshops in which we applied participatory audiovisual methodology and ethnographic work based on participant and non-participant observation. The results identified that the educommunicative process allowed young people to develop a collective outlook and a social identity that favoured awakening their interest, expressing opinions and reacting to the problems of their context. Thus, we conclude that these processes can contribute to guaranteeing the right of young people to participate in civic and political life with a diverse perspective that pays attention to their own motivations and ways of expressing themselves.

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Author Biographies

María José Palacios Esparza, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Pre-doctoral researcher in the Youth, Society and Communication research group (JOVIS.com) of the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University and recipient of an FI-AGAUR grant. She holds a Master's degree in Social Communication Research from Pompeu Fabra University and a degree in Communication for Development from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She teaches in the blended learning programme derived from the Erasmus + ComPra project and has taught Qualitative Research at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She actively participates in various national and international projects and is part of the scientific coordination team of the Erasmus + ComPra project, the H2020 SMOOTH project and the i+D EducoGen project.

Mittzy Arciniega Cáceres, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

PhD in Communication from Pompeu Fabra University, her lines of research are media education, educommunication and the representation of youth and gender. She is a member of the Youth, Society and Communication research group (JOVIS.com); she is currently scientific coordinator of the Erasmus + ComPra project, the H2020 SMOOTH project and the i+D educoGen project, all linked to media education and youth. She teaches on master's degree programmes in the Department of Communication at the UPF, such as the Master's Degree in Media, Power and Difference, the Master's Degree in Communication Research, Digital Culture and Emerging Media and the Inter-University Master's Degree in Youth and Society. She participates in the Master's Degree in Protocol and Events at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).

Mònica Figueras Maz, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

She is a lecturer in the Department of Communication at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). She is the coordinator of the consolidated research group JOVIS.com since 2017, the coordinator of the Official Interuniversity Master in Youth and Society at UPF since 2009 and the director of the Audience and Reception Studies section of the Spanish Association of Communication Research (AE-IC) since 2016. Her main lines of research are youth and communication, media literacy and communication ethics. She has directed different international, national and regional competitive research projects.

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2024-01-15

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Palacios Esparza, M. J., Arciniega Cáceres, M., & Figueras Maz, M. (2024). Youth Civic Engagement and Educommunication in Vulnerable Contexts. Case Study with Socio-Educational Organisation in Barcelona. index.Comunicación, 14(1), 31–54. https://doi.org/10.62008/ixc/14/01Compro

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Vol. 14 No. 1 (2024): Communication, peace and human rights

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Monográfico 14(1) Comunicación, paz y derechos humanos

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