Comunicação e Sociedade: Crianças, jovens e media: perspetivas atuais [37, 2020] (2024)

Comunicação e Sociedade

A domesticação de ecrãs na infância: usos e mediação parental em meios citadino e rural

2020 •

Fábio Anunciação

Este estudo procura caracterizar a utilização dos ecrãs no espaço doméstico em função dos contextos citadino e rural das crianças até aos cinco anos e conhecer como a família intervém na sua introdução e utilização. Para o efeito foram realizados quatro grupos de foco com crianças de quatro e cinco anos residentes na cidade de Lisboa e em Vila Pouca de Aguiar, no distrito de Vila Real e oito entrevistas semiestruturadas com pais e mães de ambos os contextos, chegando a várias conclusões: 1) as crianças do contexto rural são mais utilizadoras dos ecrãs em casa que as crianças da cidade; 2) os pais/mães de ambos os contextos são os responsáveis pelo acesso dos filhos aos ecrãs, sobretudo smartphones e tablets; 3) a principal explicação é a preocupação dos pais/mães com a exclusão social das crianças caso não os utilizem; 4) os progenitores/as do meio urbano denotam uma maior perceção dos riscos associados à exposição dos filhos aos dispositivos tecnológicos.

Children, youth and media: current perspectives

2020 •

Nelly Elias

Active citizenship and participation through the media: a community project focused on pre-school and primary school children

2019 •

Vitor Tome

Children, young people and the news: a systematic literature review based on Communication Abstracts

2020 •

Sara Pereira

Despite having their roots in Medicine and being more frequently used in Natural Sciences, systematic reviews can also be extremely useful when it comes to the Social Sciences, namely when the aim is to conduct a study that identifies and maps the subject of interest of scientists in a given area. In this paper, a systematic literature review has been applied to the main database in the field of Communication, Communication Abstracts, as to try and understand who studied the relationship between children and/or young people and the news, when and where that happened, as well as the angle of the investigation. A sample of 146 titles and abstracts was reviewed. The findings show that most of them were reception and representation studies, whereas production studies were in much smaller number; studies on parental mediation and journalists’ ethical concerns when covering events involving children and young people were practically residual.

Young people and daily life contexts of news appropriation

Maria José Brites

This article analyses the news social cir- culation in the private sphere, using a sample of thirty-two young Portuguese people interviewed because they showed some form of civic participation of diffe- rent types and intensities. Through news consumption and political information, we identi ed ve pro les: Informed Con- sumers, Poorly Informed Consumers, Emergent Consumers of Information, Consumers in a Self-Project, and Online Consumers. These pro les revealed the signi cance of social and civic capitals, the importance of daily life and family environments in the habits of news con- sumption and an important connection to the family with the political news.

(2015) Agents and voices: A Panorama of Media Education in Brazil, Portugal and Spain

Ilana Eleá

Media and Communication

Digital Rights, Institutionalised Youths, and Contexts of Inequalities

Teresa Sofia Castro

In this article, we aim to discuss digital rights and media literacy in the context of socio-digital inequalities experienced by institutionalised youths. In the case of these digitally disconnected youths in detention centres, there is evidence of multiple life-course disadvantages that will resonate throughout their future lives. They see their present and future lives deeply challenged by the fast pace of technological innovation and its social impacts while living in environments that we see as digital deserts. The data we bring to the discussion results from the Portuguese participatory project DiCi-Educa. We worked for three years with institutionalised youth on digital media production and critical thinking regarding digital citizenship, participation, and otherness issues. This article is organised around two research questions: What were youths’ practices regarding media and digital environments before institutionalisation? How did they discuss these digital environments an...

Comunicação e Sociedade

Rescuing Participation

2019 •

Nico Carpentier, Fábio Ribeiro, Ana D U A R T E Melo

Why is participation relevant? What is meant when the concept is used? How can we ensure that participation is used/organized in a responsible way? How can it be rendered meaningful in the different spaces of society? These may be the most important questions that motivated this discussion on the contemporary relevance of participation. The result of this long process is a thematic issue entitled “Rescuing participation”, which presents 10 articles, available in both Portuguese and English, produced by researchers from different latitudes that span the globe. Many come from Europe (Belgium, Portugal, United Kingdom, Spain and Sweden), but some come from Brazil and Indonesia. These authors present their perspectives on what they see as a positive – and pragmatic – approach to participation, in a variety of fields, including public consultations on environmental issues; participation within the scope of cultural policy; participation in elementary schools (as a media literacy project); in fiction/drama; and, ultimately, as a way to engage underprivileged and marginalized communities. This thematic issue thus offers a convincing case, theoretically and analytically embedded, for the relevance of participation in the many fields that make up our societies.

Ponte, C. (2012). "Digitally empowered? Portuguese children and the national policies for internet inclusion " Estudos em Comunicação. Communication Studies 11: 49-66.

Cristina Ponte

Media and Communication

“The Kids Hate It, but We Love It!”: Parents’ Reviews of Circle

2020 •

Ellen Wartella

The contribution aims to present a critical analysis of Circle—a screen time management and parental control device—through the lens of parental mediation, children’s surveillance, and children’s rights to online participation. Circle promises to sell parents peace of mind by allowing them to monitor their children’s online activities. In order to investigate how parents themselves understand Circle, we conducted a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of a sample of 154 parental reviews about the device on Amazon and Searchman by parents of children from early childhood to adolescence, with respect to perceived advantages and disadvantages of the device, parenting styles, and (the absence of) children’s voice and agency. Results suggest an ambivalent relationship between parents and the device. Most reviews adhere to the dominant discourses on ‘screen time,’ framing children’s ‘intimate surveillance’ as a good parenting practice, and emphasize the need for the ‘responsible ...