Maria Laura Flores Barba

Maria Laura Flores Barba

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I am an art historian and digital humanist whose research bridges visual culture, material studies, and community-based memory work. My postdoctoral project, Rebuilding Memory, Shaping Futures, explores how testimony, mapping, and digital tools can foster historical justice, intergenerational dialogue, and collective healing in postwar El Salvador.

Historias ancestrales en tiempos digitales: narración digital, inteligencia artificial y educación patrimonial crítica en el aula ELE

Published in Alfabetización mediática y ciudadanía en la era digital y de la Inteligencia Artificial, 2026

This chapter (in Spanish) examines an experience developed in a university-level Spanish language and culture course in Canada, in which students worked with myths, legends, and urban legends from the Spanish-speaking world through digital storytelling, generative artificial intelligence, and narrative mapping. It argues that digital storytelling (DS), framed within a pedagogy of critical heritage education (CHE), can serve as a form of mediation through which students interpret, reinterpret, and narrate heritage based on their own experiences. In this regard, digital identity texts can function, as Pandhiani (2022, p. 1079) suggests, as channels for community communication, memory banks, and dynamic repositories of knowledge.

Recommended citation: Devo Colis, Alba and María Laura Flores Barba. (2026). "Historias ancestrales en tiempos digitales: narración digital, inteligencia artificial y educación patrimonial crítica en el aula ELE." In Nereida López Vidales, Alba Devo Colis and Teresa Fernández-Ulloa (eds.). Alfabetización mediática y ciudadanía en la era digital y de la Inteligencia Artificial. (Forthcoming)