Taking stock of teaching practice at the onset of COVID-19

COVID-19 closed schools across the USA and forced teachers and students to navigate virtual learning with little guidance. This mixed-methods study examines K-12 teachers' beliefs about their teaching practices that were abruptly transitioned to online during the first four months of COVID-19. Surveys and interviews were analysed using sociocultural theory and the four-dimensional model of digital literacy. Teachers felt unprepared for online teaching and expressed an inability to meet their students' needs. Concerns focused on digital access inequalities, a desire for support to build digital pedagogies, particularly to enhance student engagement. The findings point to a responsibility to support digital pedagogies across pre-service and in-service contexts so that, at a minimum, teachers can operate efficiently. For greater educational equity and outcomes, teachers need to be able to build competencies to facilitate communication, critique and creative expression across contexts, digital spaces, media and for multiple purposes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Enhancing sociality, self-presentation, and play: A case study of digital scenarios among schoolchildren in an epidemic context

This study explores what types of digital life scenarios children practiced while facing the challenges of epidemic isolation, in which distance learning and limited social contact depended largely on new digital platforms. The study of children's mediatised activities within epidemic isolation can be approached from the perspective of radical contextualism, which has been widely used since the ethnographic turn in audience research that began in the late 1980s. Following this conceptual framework, the aim of the study is to identify the predominant experiences of isolated everyday life in a case study of schoolchildren and uncover typical collective groupings among young people. Based on a follow the child perspective, an online survey was conducted at a selected primary school, targeting children from 6th to 9th grade, to capture children's perceptions of online education and distance learning, prevalent digital use and their personal digital positioning. In an analytical sense, the collected sample of 110 schoolchildren was categorised using a cluster analysis to identify the typical scenarios of digital culture and show the diversity of online practices that children experienced during the COVID-19 isolation, even in a relatively homogeneous group of schoolchildren. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Educational participation of young refugees in the context of digitized settings

This article focuses on the educational participation of young refugees in the context of digitalized settings. Education policies often consider digital media beneficial for the educational participation of disadvantaged groups, or vulnerable groups facing many challenges in education and society, such as young people with a forced migration background. Moreover, digital media are highly relevant in the everyday lives of young refugees. Our 3-5-year (02/2019-07/2022) research project focuses on the trans-organizational orientation occurring in different everyday media-permeated life contexts of young refugees, which includes the formal educational setting of school, the non-formal setting of child and youth welfare, and informal contexts in the everyday life of young refugees. Through combining grounded theory, ethnography, and neo-praxeological methodologies, organizational cross-connections and cross-relations were revealed in practices and arrangements, involving digital artifacts as well as human actors. This article presents methodological insights into distributed educational practices concerning understanding information, acquiring knowledge, and developing agency in which digital media are implicated. Emerging dimensions of educational inequalities within digitalized educational contexts, which became apparent during lockdown periods in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Femvertising and COVID-19—What Did Brand Owners Broadcast during the Lockdown?

The aim of this study was to analyze, from a gender perspective, advertising broadcasts during a time of crisis. A holistic perspective of the stereotypes, roles, professions, and gender relations represented is offered by utilizing a content analysis of all the advertisements and their corresponding images during broadcast. Methods: a content analysis of 20 variables was conducted;of these, 7 variables were obtained from under the gender perspective of 1.350 images, corresponding to 71 audiovisual spots on YouTube that were broadcasted during the lockdown. Results: this analysis showed the special sensitivity of advertisers when balancing male and female presences, and in projecting an equitable and co-responsible vision between both genders, with special emphasis on gender professions, teleworking, and childcare. Corporate advertising predominates over commercial advertising, which may explain why the discourse and images blur inequalities and imbalances with respect to official statistics. Conclusions: advertisers seem to have noticed the strategic role of introducing gender perspectives into advertising, thus assuming a more social function that better connects them with today's society while also supporting the advances and challenges of equal opportunities.

What do you (really) meme? Pandemic memes as social political repositories

The commentary examines coronavirus memes circulating around forms of generational conflict that have risen from experiences of self-isolation. Employing participant-observation methods within online spaces of meme circulation, the commentary analyzes the political, social, and affective aspects of the memes considered. The commentary offers insight into how we operationalize our social media spaces in times of deep uncertainty in order collectively bring differing experiences and perspectives into a contingent, shifting, and affectively constituted public sphere. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Towards change in the identity of music therapists through digitalisation

Accelerated by the corona pandemic, the opportunities and challenges of digitalisation are also increasingly important in music therapy. This article deals with the use of digital music technologies and online settings in music therapy. These are related to the previously defined identities of musician and therapist for music therapists. The authors conclude that both the German description of professional music therapy and the Kassel Theses on Music Therapy need to broaden identifying attributes. In the field of digital media and music technologies in music therapy there is an urgent need for both continuing education and study programs as well as for an (inter)national network for practice, research and instruction. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (German) Beschleunigt durch die Coronapandemie gewinnen auch in der Musiktherapie die Chancen und Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung an Bedeutung. Der Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Einsatz von digitalen Musiktechnologien und Online-Settings in der Musiktherapie. Diese werden mit den bisher definierten Musiker.innen- und Therapeut.innenidentitaten von Musiktherapeut.innen in Beziehung gesetzt. Die Autor.innen kommen zum Ergebnis, dass sowohl im Berufsbild Musiktherapie als auch in den Kassler Thesen zur Musiktherapie die Identitatsmerkale erweitert werden mussen. Ebenso sind Angebote von musiktherapeutischen Aus- und Weiterbildungsmoglichkeiten sowie eine Vernetzung von Praxis, Forschung und Lehre im Bereich digitaler Medien und Musiktechnologien auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene dringend notwendig. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Our ultimate hope or something sinister: Social media advertisements, digital discourse with physicians, and maternal source credibility perceptions of pro-vaccine messages during a global pandemic

This dissertation investigated vaccine-related content on two dominant social networks, Facebook and Twitter, and explored how this content could influence vaccine decision making. First, Study 1 included a framing analysis of paid vaccine advertisements collected from the Facebook Ad Library during the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Overarching frames included: support for vaccines;dual benefits, including individual and community protection;presentation of information;and the necessity for liberty in medical choices (anti-vaccine frame). COVID-19 specific frames included: 1) vaccine development and the politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2) COVID-19 as a backdrop to illustrate the need for other vaccines. Study 2 included a thematic analysis of tweets utilizing the #DoctorsSpeakUp hashtag, which was designed by physicians to collectively promote vaccines on Twitter but was hijacked by anti-vaccine advocates. Through the lens of counterpublic sphere theory, analysis revealed that the hashtag hijacking by a scientific counterpublic was successful, and the majority of tweets were oriented against vaccines. Five overarching themes emerged in anti-vaccine hijacked tweets, including: personal experience with vaccine injury, profits over people, a lack of liability, a perception that doctors were uninformed, and "We are the Herd." Finally, Study 3 included interviews with vaccine-accepting mothers to understand their perceptions of paid vaccine advertisements on Facebook, identified in Study 1, through the lens of Source Credibility Theory. Thematic analysis revealed five themes related to current ads, including: one-sided pro-vaccine advertisements;"you can't tell me what to do;" the perception of an underlying agenda;the need for more scientific data-driven information;and a sense of confusion and lack of clarity related to ad elements. Relevant credibility cues included sponsor, context, image selection, wording, and spokesperson of each advertisement. Overall, the three studies revealed key findings, including the politicization of vaccines and vaccine-related messaging on social media, the need for neutral, credible sources and medical provider buy-in, the need for a change in message emphasis from community to personal health, and recommendations for the best platform and strategy to promote vaccines on social networks. Practical and theoretical implications for advertising practitioners and public health communicators were provided. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Employing satire and humor in facing a pandemic

This research employs the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Focus Theory of Normative Conduct to convey how The Late Show with Stephen Colbert employs humor and satire with the aim of providing information, proffering injunctive norms, and modifying attitudes and subjective norms in its public audience, while exposing the inefficacy of behavioral controls and urging public authorities to adopt effective ones instead. In the earlier stages of the pandemic in the US, the Show primarily appealed to people to change their behavior through providing information, invoking injunctive norms and affiliations, foregrounding appropriate attitudes and subjective norms;at the same time, its repertoire included social and political satire drawing on organizational and institutional mechanisms of behavioral control. As the health crisis became increasingly politicized, the Show redirected its satire to policies and political figures and sought to change the behavior of policymakers in setting proper role models and adopting wiser behavioral controls to lead the nation through the crisis. Meanwhile, individual responsibility was never spared in satiric attempts to change behavior as the Show continued to provide its audience with new scientific information and encouraged them to follow scientific recommendations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Inaccessible media during the COVID-19 crisis intersects with the language deprivation crisis for young deaf children in the U.S

The article briefs about the language deprivation crisis for young deaf children in the U.S. With so much online and at home during the pandemic, real digital access for all children is a necessity. The legacy of U.S. media encouraging or requiring certain types of translation, while discouraging or ruling out others, matters for ideas about what does, or does not, constitute "access" to community and media for deaf children. Programming that is provided or translated into visual, fully accessible ASL and other signed languages is a key step. Rather than transcribing English into captions, it's worth looking past technologies of translation and to other countries' examples before and during COVID-19, as well as ongoing grassroots deaf organizing, to ensure that this crisis does not amplify the language deprivation crisis for deaf children in the U.S. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Digital marketing communication in global marketplaces: A review of extant research, future directions, and potential approaches

Digital marketing communication, that is, communication through digital or electronic media among businesses and consumers, is growing rapidly, especially during the COVID-19 era. We propose a framework for analyzing digital marketing communication along four major dyads, business-to-consumer (B2C), business-to-business (B2B), consumer-to-consumer (C2C), and consumer-to-business (C2B). We review and summarize, for researchers and practitioners, the literature during 2000-2021 in these dyads along four major components: goals;channels, media, and platforms;content;and responses. We find that extant research in digital marketing communication pertains mostly to a specific, national level rather than a global level, despite the porousness of national boundaries for digital marketing. We derive important insights, identify key research gaps and questions in each of the dyads along these dimensions. We suggest approaches to address these research questions under three major components: substantive issues, data, and methods. These approaches can offer the insights that managers need to better formulate digital marketing strategies in local and global contexts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Explaining news spreading phenomena in social networks: From data acquisition and processing to network analysis and modelling

When a high-ranking British politician was falsely accused of child abuse by the BBC in November 2012, a wave of short messages followed on the online social network Twitter leading to considerable damage to his reputation. However, not only did the politician's image suffer considerable damage, moreover, he was also able to sue the BBC for 185,000 in damages. On the relatively new media of the internet and specifically in online social networks, digital wildfires, i.e., fast spreading, counterfactual or even intentionally misleading information occur on a regular basis and lead to severe repercussions. Although the example of the British politician is a simple digital wildfire that only damaged the reputation of a single person, there are more complex digital wildfires whose consequences are more far-reaching. This thesis deals with the capture, automatic processing, and investigation of a complex digital wildfire, namely, the Corona and 5G misinformations event - the idea that the COVID-19 outbreak is somehow connected to the introduction of the 5G wireless technology. In this context, we present a system whose application allows us to acquire large amounts of data from the online social network Twitter and thus create the database from which we extract the digital wildfire in its entirety. Furthermore, we present a framework that provides the playing field for investigating the spread of digital wildfires. The main findings that emerge from the study of the 5G and corona misinformation event can be summarised as follows. Although published work suggests that a purely structure-based analysis of the information spread allows for early detection, there is no way of predictively labelling spreading information as probably leading to a digital wildfire. Digital wildfires do not emerge out of nowhere but find their origin in a multitude of already existing ideas and narratives that are reinterpreted and recomposed in the light of a new situation. It does not matter if ideas and explanations contradict each other. On the contrary, it seems that it is the existence of contradictory explanations that unites supporters from different camps to support a new idea. Finally, it has been shown that the spread of a digital wildfire is not the result of an information cascade in the sense of single, particularly influential short messages within a single medium. Rather, a multitude of small cascades with partly contradictory statements are responsible for the rapid spread. The dissemination media are diverse, and even more so, it is precisely the mix of different media that makes a digital wildfire possible. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Untapped sources of contextualized knowledge: Exploring occupational disruption during COVID-19 as showcased through YouTube parodies

The COVID-19 pandemic led to stay-at-home mandates and lockdowns around the globe. During this time of occupational disruption and social distancing measures, many engaged through online environments. Social media are ever-increasing hosts of occupation and participation, rich with research opportunities. In this study, we explored COVID-19 experiences by analyzing parody videos posted on YouTube by various content creators. We analyzed the lyrics of 27 viral videos (accrued 1 million or more views) by 20 content creators. Using a transactional framework, we identified five themes related to occupational disruption in the lyrics and explored the polarity of the concepts within each theme: old norms vs. new normal, time expanded vs. time condensed, control seeking vs. lack of control, social isolation vs. excess socialization, and cynicism vs. hope. Our findings demonstrated the complex transactions between previous habits and routines, changing spaces of occupation, and meaning of daily occupations within evolving social, economic, and physical contexts. While this study showcased YouTube videos as one untapped source of contextualized knowledge for occupational science, there is a need for further exploration of methodological and ethical challenges of studying digital content. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Chinese) COVID-19 ,,, YouTube COVID-19 20 27 ( 100 ),,:,,, YouTube -,- (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Spanish) La pandemia de la Covid-19 dio lugar a mandatos de confinamiento y cierres patronales en todo el mundo. Durante esta epoca de interrupcion laboral y medidas de distanciamiento social, muchas personas se involucraron a traves de plataformas en linea. Cada vez mas, los medios de comunicacion social se han vuelto un lugar para ejercer la ocupacion y la participacion, y ofrecen muchas oportunidades orientadas a realizar investigaciones. En este estudio examinamos las experiencias vinculadas a la Covid-19, analizando videos de parodia publicados en YouTube por varios creadores de contenido. En este sentido, analizamos las letras de 27 videos virales (que han alcanzado un millon de visitas o mas) de 20 creadores de contenido. Utilizando un marco transaccional, en las letras de las canciones identificamos cinco temas relacionados con la interrupcion ocupacional y examinamos la polaridad de los conceptos dentro de cada tema: antiguas normas versus nueva normalidad, tiempo expandido versus tiempo condensado, busqueda de control versus falta de control, aislamiento social versus exceso de socializacion y cinismo versus esperanza. Nuestros resultados dan cuenta de las complejas transacciones entre los habitos y las rutinas anteriores, los espacios de ocupacion cambiantes y el significado de las ocupaciones diarias dentro de contextos sociales, economicos y fisicos en evolucion. Aunque este estudio mostro que los videos de YouTube son una fuente de conocimiento contextualizado sin explorar para la ciencia de la ocupacion, es necesario seguir analizando los retos metodologicos y eticos que supone el estudio de los contenidos digitales. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Toxicity and the effect on digital communities

Social networks or social media platforms have been around since the 1980s. With the increase of users every year, we have seen the rise of harmful content such as rude, disrespectful, unreasonable, abusive comments, and hate speech. The increase of harmful content was even more noticeable in 2020 with COVID-19 and election topics. Mainstream social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, continue to increase their efforts to reduce harmful content such as hate speech, harmful content, and misinformation. However, social media platforms cannot catch and remove all toxic content from their platforms before it impacts an individual or community. This dissertation compares toxicity at the platform level for mainstream and non-mainstream social media, analyzes these differences between the two platforms, and examines toxicity at the macro level by analyzing the effect of toxicity on community dynamics for and pro and anti-COVID datasets from Twitter. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Exploring the definitions and experiences of the digital divide-it is more than a digital distraction: A case study in one Midwestern suburban high school during the COVID-19 pandemic

This case study was an exploration into the digital distraction occurring in a 1:1 integrated American high school. Twenty-first century education allows students and teachers to navigate learning using digital resources (internet, social media, academic databases) via school-issued and student-owned mobile digital technology (laptops, tablets, smartphones, smartwatches, etc.). This digital inclusion has been concerning for those who must supervise on-task learning, as managing devices, such as Chromebooks, cellphones and smartwatches has become both a pragmatic and ethical matter. In this case, I explored stakeholders' perspectives on digital devices, and the distraction they can cause in secondary education. Specifically, I attempted to discover the impact of digital distraction on engagement and attention during learning in the secondary 1:1 integrated classroom. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Teaching Audiovisual Media in Chile: Problems and Challenges after COVID-19

[...]according to a survey conducted by the University of Chile, 80% of university students had never taken a virtual module before.

"Video Unavailable": YouTube and Barriers to Fair Use for The Audiovisual Lexicon

[...]we considered only the two most trafficked Anglophone video sharing sites for pre-recorded content: The site is also the second most-used search engine after Google, which has over seventy-five percent of the search engine market-share (and owns YouTube), a combination which helps to give YouTube videos priority over other videos in most search results. Both platforms anchor their policies in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [https://www.copvright.gov /legislation /dmca.pdf] (DMCA) enacted in 1998 in the United States, which (along with Section 280 of the Communications Decency Act [https: / /www.eff.org /issues /cda230] 1 protect websites from being liable for copyright infringement by participating users. [...]the system is rarely used. Because Vimeo's business model is membership-driven-rather than advertisement-driven like You l ube's-the company lias little incentive to pre-emptively screen for copyright violations, given their financial success relies on attracting and maintaining paying creators and not appeasing copyright holders outside the scope of the DMCA.

Best practice guidance for digital contact tracing apps: A cross-disciplinary review of the literature

Background: Digital contact tracing apps have the potential to augment contact tracing systems and disrupt COVID-19 transmission by rapidly identifying secondary cases prior to the onset of infectiousness and linking them into a system of quarantine, testing, and health care worker case management. The international experience of digital contact tracing apps during the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates how challenging their design and deployment are. Objective: This study aims to derive and summarize best practice guidance for the design of the ideal digital contact tracing app. Methods: A collaborative cross-disciplinary approach was used to derive best practice guidance for designing the ideal digital contact tracing app. A search of the indexed and gray literature was conducted to identify articles describing or evaluating digital contact tracing apps. MEDLINE was searched using a combination of free-text terms and Medical Subject Headings search terms. Gray literature sources searched were the World Health Organization Institutional Repository for Information Sharing, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control publications library, and Google, including the websites of many health protection authorities. Articles that were acceptable for inclusion in this evidence synthesis were peer-reviewed publications, cohort studies, randomized trials, modeling studies, technical reports, white papers, and media reports related to digital contact tracing. Results: Ethical, user experience, privacy and data protection, technical, clinical and societal, and evaluation considerations were identified from the literature. The ideal digital contact tracing app should be voluntary and should be equitably available and accessible. User engagement could be enhanced by small financial incentives, enabling users to tailor aspects of the app to their particular needs and integrating digital contact tracing apps into the wider public health information campaign. Adherence to the principles of good data protection and privacy by design is important to convince target populations to download and use digital contact tracing apps. Bluetooth Low Energy is recommended for a digital contact tracing app's contact event detection, but combining it with ultrasound technology may improve a digital contact tracing app's accuracy. A decentralized privacy-preserving protocol should be followed to enable digital contact tracing app users to exchange and record temporary contact numbers during contact events. The ideal digital contact tracing app should define and risk-stratify contact events according to proximity, duration of contact, and the infectiousness of the case at the time of contact. Evaluating digital contact tracing apps requires data to quantify app downloads, use among COVID-19 cases, successful contact alert generation, contact alert receivers, contact alert receivers that adhere to quarantine and testing recommendations, and the number of contact alert receivers who subsequently are tested positive for COVID-19. The outcomes of digital contact tracing apps' evaluations should be openly reported to allow for the wider public to review the evaluation of the app. Conclusions: In conclusion, key considerations and best practice guidance for the design of the ideal digital contact tracing app were derived from the literature. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Impact of advertising on educational apps used by children: A parental perspective

India's education sector is being impacted by COVID-19 in unprecedented ways. The pandemic is disrupting the traditional education system, affecting over 320 million students. This sector is trying to develop robust, innovative approaches to foster a paradigm shift toward digital education. These efforts are being supplemented with the launch of quality-focused multilingual educational applications (apps). Parents are also swiftly adopting a variety of e-learning apps. This research addresses the role of advertisements to empower parents to be educated consumers for educational apps for children. The purposeful sample data were collected from 307 parents of students from the top 10 ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education) and CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) schools in Urban India. The findings indicate that advertising media accelerates the diffusion of educational technology and apps among parents. However, it does not help in overcoming insecurities that parents may have regarding these apps for their children. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Digital revolution and youth: Consequences for their development and education

The digital revolution, which started in the latter quarter of the 19th century, refers to the shift from mechanical and analog electronic technology to digital technologies, which mostly use the internet. In contrast to traditional media, digital technologies include social and interactive media and allow users to consume and actively create content. Young people's lives are increasingly mediated by digital technologies used both at home and at school. The use of digital media by young people may be adaptive, but it may place their adaptation at risk. Whether media use is adaptive or maladaptive depends on a number of factors, including, among others, the developmental stage of the individual, the type of media, the type of use, the extent of use, and the characteristics of the individual using the media. The place of digital media in young people's lives has never been more prominent than during the COVID-19 pandemic. During this period, their lives were upended, and they turned to digital media for their education, entertainment, information, and social contact. Thus, the study of the effects of the digital revolution on youths' development and education has never been timelier than it is right now. This article introduces the Special Issue on youth in the digital age. It includes six reviews that focus on the affective, cognitive, and social consequences of the digital revolution for young people. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Radio, televisión, audio y vídeo en educación. Funciones y posibilidades, potenciadas por el COVID-19

El medio audiovisual está tan extendido que fue apuesta educativa en entornos a distancia y ahora, de forma notable, durante los tiempos de pandemia. Esos recursos audiovisuales bien utilizados potencian las posibilidades de aprendizaje y retención. A pesar de que hoy muchos podrían pensar que se trata de recursos obsoletos, de escasa eficacia para el aprendizaje en esta sociedad digital, siguen siendo hoy bien valorados. Fue evidente que la radio y la televisión tuvieron una destacada relevancia en los tiempos de confinamiento, con el propósito de que nadie se quedase atrás, sobre todo, los grupos más vulnerables. Hoy, los sistemas digitales pueden alojar, grabar y reproducir cualquier tipo de documento audiovisual, y esto último, sea en formato síncrono o asíncrono. La radio, en tiempos de pandemia se aprovechó como medio de comunicación flexible, masivo, de bajo coste y de largo alcance, como alternativa a los grandes avances de las tecnologías digitales, llegando a todos los rincones del globo. Sobre la radio, el podcast cuenta con la ventaja de poder grabar y reproducir cualquier tipo de contenido sonoro, con posibilidades de escucha reiterada, pausa y vuelta atrás. Por una parte, integrar oído y vista, por la otra, el texto, audio e imágenes en un mismo recurso educativo, casos de la televisión y el vídeo, potencian de forma sustancial las posibilidades didácticas en cualquier área del saber, índole del curso y nivel educativo. Sin embargo, ha de concluirse que el potencial de estos recursos no se ha explotado, ni mucho menos, lo suficiente en entornos educativos. La videoconferencia síncrona parece haber integrado las posibilidades de estas herramientas, obviando algunos de sus problemas y convirtiéndose en gran complemento para la educación.Alternate :The audiovisual medium is so widespread that it was an educational bet in remote settings and now, notably, during the times of the pandemic. These well-used audiovisual resources enhance the possibilities of learning and retention. Despite the fact that, nowadays, many might think that these are obsolete resources, of low efficiency for learning in this digital society, they are still highly valued today. It was evident that radio and television had an outstanding relevance in times of confinement, so that no one was left behind, especially the most vulnerable groups. Today, digital systems can host, record and reproduce any type of audiovisual document, and the latter, both in synchronous and asynchronous format. Radio, in times of pandemic, was used as a flexible, massive, low-cost and long-range means of communication, as an alternative to the great advances in digital technologies, reaching all corners of the globe. Over the radio, the podcast has the advantage of being able to record and reproduce any type of audio content, with the possibility of repeated listening, pausing and going back. On the one hand, integrating hearing and sight, on the other hand, text, audio and images in the same educational resource, such as television and video, substantially enhance the didactic possibilities in any area of knowledge, nature of the course and educational level. However, it must be concluded that the potential of these resources has not been exploited, far from it, sufficiently in educational settings. Synchronous videoconferencing seems to have integrated the possibilities of these tools obviating some of their problems and becoming a great complement to education.