Francisco Javier Fernández Medina

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | UC · Departamento de Creación Audiovisual

Multimorbidity is defined as the presence of two or more chronic medical conditions in a person, whether physical, mental or long-term infectious diseases. This is especially common in older populations, affecting their quality of life and emotionally impacting their caregivers and family. Technology can allow for monitoring, managing, and motivati...

The executive council of UNESCO claims that media and information literacy (MIL) constitutes a concern for the entire world, due to the primary role of information, technology, and media in everyday life and in participating in every aspect of public life. However, in Chile, media education (ME) is not included in the school curriculum or in teache...

El acceso a la información pública, la transparencia y el gobierno abierto son prácticas habituales en el ámbito de las administraciones públicas, obligadas por leyes nacionales y recomendaciones de carácter internacional. En el caso de las televisiones, en su condición de empresas informativas que trabajan con un bien de servicio público, el estud...

Watching television and tweeting at the same time changes the nature of the media experience; thus, this quantitative research applies a frequency analysis and the seminality index to describe the evolution of this convergence between 2013 and 2017 in Chilean political shows. The comparison showed an increase in tweeting rates in second screening,...

Esta investigación estudia las interacciones entre la televisión y las redes sociales (lo que podríamos llamar televisión social) en el entorno latinoamericano, con dos grandes propósitos. El primero es explorar los factores que explican cómo las redes sociales inciden en el consumo televisivo, y en segundo lugar cuantificar estos factores para ten...

This paper shows the results of an analysis of the health communication needs of 181 autonomous Chileans over 60 years, aimed to design the prototype of a system of preventive health communication for these audiences and their support networks. A questionnaire regarding personal information, sociability indicators, media and technology use habits,...

This paper analyzes media convergence between Twitter and television by describing the nature of discursive connections in tweeters' conversations during a talk show. Using a qualitative methodology, it characterizes real "convergent" tweets. The aim is to collaborate in the research of new transmedia experiences in digital social networks.

This paper analyzes media convergence between Twitter and television by describing the nature of discursive connections in tweeters' conversations during a talk show. Using a qualitative methodology, it characterizes real "convergent" tweets. The aim is to collaborate in the research of new transmedia experiences in digital social networks.

The conversionfrom analogic to digital television offers opportunities for new services and interactive content that in Chile can be found in TV channels webpages and in pay television, but that are not present in the current offer of Chilean digital terrestrial television. This paper describes the main results of an investigation that describes th...

La discusión sobre la norma técnica de transmisión de televisión digital terrestre en Chile ha dejado prácticamente de lado la importancia y el potencial que hay detrás de la creación de aplicaciones interactivas para la televisión abierta. El aumento de la experiencia televisiva, el desarrollo de mejores interfaces gráficas y el acceso a funciones...

Digital divide in Chile is not as large as it seems. Last figures obtained from a research made in aproximately twenty countries shows that at least 65% of the Chilean people are users of the Internet and have access to this technology. Therefore, digital literacy should focus on activities which would help to surpass the lack of access either by o...