Corporal Imaginaries. Gender Perspective Applied to Digital Media Literacy in Early Childhood.

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The methodological basis of YOYOMIOMIO1 , a video installation intended for display in museums, is fundamentally based on the research of two authors. On the one hand, Marshall McLuhan, by coining the expression global village, assured that technologies would be considered extensions of our bodies and senses. This prediction, launched during the 1960s, according to which mass media are observed as prolongations of our nervous system, has actually been surpassed; our bodies now interact with all kinds of electronic elements. On the other hand, Haraway (1991) provides feminism with a powerful understanding of the new possibilities for the human being of today: the postmodern subject by means of the cyborg. In this understanding, the cyborg era is in an advanced state, with the deconstruction of our own bodies to create new models that interact with the electronic elements implanted in them.The main objective of YOYOMIOMIO, which will be described throughout this chapter, has been to translate into artistic language McLuhan s exploration in the visual and acoustic space, as well as Haraway s assertions about the sex/gender system. In addition, the authors have developed a research methodology that combines electronic art with the creation of corporal imaginaries during the early childhood years.