DIGITAL COMPETENCIES IN THE JOURNALISM CURRICULUM: CASE ANALYSIS OF A CENTRAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

This case analysis is a study proposal on digital competencies in the journalist training curriculum, a model proposed from the intersection of Ferres and Piscitelli's proposal on the dimensions of Media Competence and DigComp developed by the European Commission. The object of study was the Bachelor of Social Communication at the Jose Simeon Canas of El Salvador Central American University due to its tradition of studies in journalism and its curricular adjustment in 2019 proposing a double presence and assuming the virtual before the pandemic. As a method, content analysis was used from the dimensions of digital competencies in their study plan. The results show that there is no deepening of the concept of competence is equivalent to skill and there is no description of what is understood as image and digital competence, limited spaces where students can generate elements of assessment and criticism of the use of the fourth screens, no topics were found that address content related to copyright, collective intelligence and especially Internet security as forms of protection of identity and personal information on the web and social networks, abuses and/or dependencies created by technology and personal care about the abuse of technologies.