Internet research and its pedagogical dimension

• Autor(a) principal: Cordeiro, Paula
• Data de Publicação: 2004
• Outros Autores: Reia-Baptista, Vítor
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/9124
• topic: Internet; Mass media

There is a great need for research and development of multidisci- plinary studies about the Internet and the credibility of the information available online. For example, in the field of Cultural Studies, in partic- ular, and in Communication courses, in general, it is possible to develop a corps of analysis which main goal should be to develop different approaches to the research and the organization of information in the Internet. At the University of Algarve we have been trying to develop some projects about themes of cultural identities different and distant to those of the students’ own cultural identities in order to discover and study some of the main characteristics of the information available in the Internet and trying to compare them with other characteristics already known from other media and communication contexts. These students also study the risks of the Internet, namely in what respects the information credibility and the adequate contextualization of that information, as well as the correct identification of information sources and channels.