Audio-Visual Media Production and Screen Interface Interaction: Teaching and Learning in the Contemporary Visual Ecosystem

The aim of this presentation is to discuss and analyse some specific audio-visual practices in the context of the contemporary media ecosystem. In the first part of our speech, we intend to proceed with a mapping of contemporary media practices, focusing in particular on those aspects that are particularly relevant for teaching and learning in the field of visual and media literacy. More specifically, the issues of “interactivity” with screenic interfaces and “social relations” into the screenic environments will be discussed as an integral part of the contemporary media scenario. According to a number of internationally renowned scholars, this scenario will be literally defined as an environment. The “environmental” approach to the study of the media will be, for these reasons, the key theoretical element also for analysing some teaching and learning practices. A key question should be: What does it mean to build a “learning environments” on and off the screens of everyday digital media? On the basis of these premises, and of this preliminary question, some practices related to the use of social media in learning environments will be analysed in the second part of the presentation.