Felicidad García-Sánchez

University of Salamanca · Department of Art History / Fine Arts

We are delighted to welcome readers to this Special Issue on “Research Advances on User Interactions in Social Media Using Data Science Approaches” [...]

This chapter presents a new approach of a quantitative analysis used to research the understanding of visual literacy issues. The objective of the research is to find common patterns, opinions, and behaviors between different people regarding the use of visual communication and people's state of visual literacy, while also considering the possible...

The aim of the didactics of color is to create a connection, a state of harmony between the observable color and color which is created. This objective unfolds in the teaching methods employed. On one hand, analytical observation must be taught, allowing the gaze to distinguish different shades of color, to organize hierarchically levels of light a...

Since the appearance of the term visual literacy in the second half of the 20th century, many authors have spoken of visual competencies. These competencies are acquired through the use of visual language and an understanding that the use of human and cultural capabilities makes people free to create and interpret messages. Furthermore, since the i...

This paper includes the results of an experience of educational innovation for the study of color structures carried out with the students of the Degree in Fine Arts of the University of Salamanca during the 2017-2018 academic year. This experience was explicitly focused on the introduction of digital tools that contribute to the acquisition of nec...

This chapter presents a new approach of a quantitative analysis used to research the understanding of visual literacy issues. The objective of the research is to find common patterns, opinions, and behaviors between different people regarding the use of visual communication and people's state of visual literacy, while also considering the possible...

Resumen-Este artículo presenta un proyecto de investigación actualmente en desarrollo que pretende implementar una serie de herramientas y sistemas que permitan a investigadores entender los flujos de comunicación visual que suceden en las redes sociales, permitiendo a su vez realizar análisis cualitativos y cuantitativos sobre dichos procesos. Dic...

The usage of visual communication is broadly extended nowadays; with the intensive usage of social networks based (partially or totally) in sharing images and visual representations, people has adopted this kind of communication as normal and develops new dimensions in the knowledge, understanding and communicating processes even without knowing cl...

This paper presents a work in progress project that implements a set of tools and systems to allow researchers performing qualitative and quantitative analysis about visual communication in social networks. This analysis is intended to discover learning by imitation patterns, the usage of visual language in non-formal contexts like social networks...

[ES]Libro de Actas de los Premios de Investigación e Innovación de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria, Bachillerato y Formación Profesional de Castilla y León 2015 (PIIECYL 2015), organizados por la Junta de Castilla y León en colaboración con el Instituto Universitario de Ciencias de la Educación (IUCE) y el Grupo de Investigación en InterAcción y e...

[ES]Introducción al Libro de Actas de los Premios de Investigación e Innovación de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria, Bachillerato y Formación Profesional de Castilla y León 2015 (PIIECYL 2015)

This paper describes the initial stages of a PhD research work in visual literacy, including the state of art, the theoretical framework and the methodology proposed for this PhD work. The use of the photographic medium in education has varied throughout history. Photography is evolving and renewing since its beginnings, therefore it is necessary a...