El valor del signo netbook en el discurso del programa Conectar Igualdad

Abstract

The present paper is part of a research that analyzes the discursive strategies through which the social representations (Raiter, 2016) of technology are constructed in the discourses of public policies of "digital inclusion". This time, we recover the different valuations that are sought to impose on the ideological sign "netbook" in a document published in 2012 by the Ministry of Education within the frame of the Programa Conectar Igualdad. Through the classification of the netbook as the agent of the overcoming of an undefined "social inequity", the document mitigates the responsibility of the institutional actors, while legitimizing the state program, persuading the benefits of the machines and the advantages of using laptops in education. We inscribe the research within the Critical Linguistics postulates (Hodge and Kress, 1993, Hodge, 2016).