Educammunication and third environment: dialogs with Galimberti, Echeverría and Martín-Barbero

Abstract

This paper proposes new approaches to the comprehension of the relationship between technology and education in the context of social intervention inside the emerging field of
Educommunication. Its goal is to identify authors who can provide input to understand the nature of mediations that involve technologies, which are seen as constitutive elements of the information society, where the educomunicative act operates. The authors Umberto Galimberti, Javier Echeverría and Jesús Martín-Barbero allow us to understand how, from the theory of action, the educomunicative subject can fit in the third environment. According to this interpretation, an opened, communicative, democratic and participatory ecosystem is
built, overcoming the functional and operational perspective in which the technologies have been introduced, sold and largely
implemented by educational systems.