Núm. 08, julio-diciembre (2005)

Alleging that television «does not educate» numerous TV programs fill homes with trash. With the so-called «reality shows», the culture of violent void invading other media--such as newscasts and printed media--has been massively sown. A new era emerges at media threshold: reality simulation and apology of morbidity and violence with humor overtones, providing not a personal equality but a mass equality. Reality shows become a sort of virtual hospital where «patients» are healed by exposing their miseries to the public eye. In this way, through the coarsest massification, mediocrity is democratized since, faced with the contemplation of other people's miseries, common man contemplates himself as a privileged being not aspiring to being more than he is. This reality of ideological and personal vacuity is rampant both in-«family» and newcast programs. All the media carnival focused on the attention to this irreplaceable resource of human communication has to do with the booming of the Constructivist tinted education. This has a basis student's autonomy, based on what he or she knows and is able to develop. Verbal language is the premise for knowledge construction. The universities have echoed this trend, and now the curriculum allows for those subjects promoting the exertion of reflection and expression.