Educación, Tecnologías y Comunicación popular, comunitaria y alternativa. Una revisión cartográfica-conceptual en revistas latinoamericanas.

Abstract

This paper seeks to articulate the fields of Popular, Alternative and Communitary Communication along with those of Education and Technology or ICT. The proposed conceptual crossover has a critical-political perspective, elaborating upon the social, territorial and cultural construct from a formal academic standpoint -such as that of scientific journals- on the premise that scientific and academic development should not be separated from the social issues they investigate, but rather get involved with them. Cartographic and conceptual analysis of scientific papers containing the issues related to the referred fields was carried out especially through a specific software (QDMiner). Cartographic mining was performed on articles which were previously selected by the REDALYC network, and in which conceptual relations, connections and differences were established. A new conceptual weaving was constructed, enabling a reflexive meta-analysis and hence the creation of new interpretations and categories regarding the current academic-theoretical crossover between Education, Technology and Communication, in terms of community and culture.