Laboratorios ciudadanos y transmedia para pensar en el nosotros

Abstract

The communication and the processes inherent in its research, production and dissemination must be collaborative learning and creation spaces, which integrate various points of view and realities, to exploit the possibilities of solving a communication problem through prototypes that address the different areas of thereality, and thus have a greater connection. Collaborative laboratories are spaces for co-creation and prototyping that bring together feelings, experiences and diverse knowledge around a communicational problem seen from all angles for their solution. Incorporating them into the curriculum contributes to the collaborative work not only of students but of teachers and researchers so that the educational institution is part of the cyberculture. Based on three teaching practices in Ecuadorian universities, it is concluded that group and collaborative work in creation workshops is the best learning and prototyping space for journalistic and communication experiences for students, since they develop their skills and complement those of their colleagues, and help improve and change existing content in the local media landscape.