Competencias argumentativas, literatura y booktubers

Abstract

This proposal emerges as an answer for the need to face the effects of highly prompt responses and superficiality that information carries nowadays, acknowledging the fundamental role that schools have towards this reality. Hence it seeks to strengthen argumentative competences on young adults, using literary works as a starting point, and keeping Youtube platform as the main source for communication, specifically 'Booktubers'. Virtual etnography was used to analyze literary discourse that booktubers held on the net, aiming to generate a reflective process and comprehend pedagogical approaches that these sites can bring attached. Afterwards, through an inverstigation-action centered on an interpretative paradigm and qualitative focus, a constant reflection exercise was held in the classroom. Similarly, there were a series of workshops which target was ninth grade students from the school María Auxiliadora Norte, with the aim of strengthening the group in their argumentative and communicative competences, mass media analysis and literary criticism. It was concludeed that this thinking exercise is higly important to transfer all knowledge learnd in class to websites such as the ones particularly studied here, intrinsically relating the academic work with the new communicative environments. Furthermore, this process evidences the symbiosis that both argumentation and literature have to articulate the skills of the first with the knowledge of the other. Last but not least, the importance of having the students become fully responsible of their production and consumption of online content was udoubtedly promoted.