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MEDIA LITERACY AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE<br />
Strategies, Debates and Good Practices<br />
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The objective quality in the training of media professionals<br />
How to measure the quality of journalistic content<br />
Concha Pérez Curiel<br />
Department of Journalism II<br />
University of Seville<br />
cperez1@us.es<br />
Abstract<br />
Expert researchers, reference institutions or new citizen journalism demand<br />
accountability to the media in building the knowledge society. The evaluation of<br />
the content broadcast highlights the dangers they are exposed, especially<br />
children and young people and lower social classes economically and<br />
intellectually. This situation is aggravated when it comes to consumption of<br />
television or the Internet.<br />
The interest of the media to redirect the situation is questionable and very<br />
different depending on which political, economic and media control and digital<br />
audiovisual space. Public and private operators ignore, ignore or fail in their<br />
attempt, pressed by a common goal: the audience rankings and profit.<br />
Not only the family and the school, but of course the media have to be able to<br />
recognize what makes a quality journalistic product. The core objective of the<br />
research presented is to inform and educate professionals in the media about<br />
how to produce quality programs. Let the viewers themselves are able to certify<br />
the excellence of the quality of that product or digital television would be the<br />
highest recognition of a job well done.<br />
Supported by previous researchs in universities in Chile and Argentina on<br />
Method VAP (Value Added Journalism) will be measured through an analysis<br />
card the treatment that professionals give the news in their selection process<br />
and creation.<br />
A second stage of the research also raises the need to work with families,<br />
students and teachers from schools (surveys and interviews) to "learn" to<br />
recognize and demand that the media quality.<br />
Keywords: Quality, content, media literacy, Value Added Journalism,<br />
measurement, variables.<br />
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