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Comunicar Journal 21: Technologies in a global age (Vol. 11 - 2003)

Construction of war conflicts: an analysis from education in mass media

https://doi.org/10.3916/C21-2003-22

Fernando Tucho-Fernández

Abstract

One of the main purposes of the media education is the formation of critical citizens. For this reason the media education has to develop a continual analysis of how they function. War conflict periods are an incomparable opportunity for this work, because the usual actions of media are encouraged and emerge much more clearly. From this point of view this article pretends an approach to the mediatical construction of this war conflicts.

Keywords

Media education, information, propaganda, censorship, war conflicts