The presence of the «Advanced High School Program with emphasis on Information and Communications Technologies» (PROA) in Facebook

Abstract

Since the emergence of the internet in our daily lives and the digital revolution as the most relevant phenomenon of the last decades, the ways of living together, thinking, communicating and reflecting have been mutating. Today, digital social networks occupy new spaces such as electronic agoras, where various communicative prototypes are tested and where different ways of managing emotions and thoughts are put into play. In this context, the exclusion of the digital world can generate threats and dangers, especially to the profiles of public institutions of various kinds. This article analyzes the presence of the PROA Schools (Advanced High School Program with emphasis on ICT) in Córdoba, Argentina, on Facebook in order to describe and analyze what is said about schools, how and who says so. As an analysis platform, we have chosen a Facebook group that brings together teachers from all over the province and we have used the search tool to locate the publications of the last two years. As main conclusion we highlight that the formal presence of the program is low, so it increases disinformation and the circulation of fake news; at the same time, most of the comments linked to schools refer to criticisms of funding and the way of selecting teachers.