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Media, Children and Youth

Objectives

At the final the student should be able to:
a) Identify the social construction of the concept of child and how the media contributed to this construction;
b) Be aware of guidelines for policis and research on children and the media, placing them in their contexts and matrices (developmental psychology, pediatrics, pedagogy).
c) Situate the perspective of the rights of the child as part of human rights and explore guiding elements, such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) - its historical and media context, articulation between rights of protection, provision and participation.
d) Identify challenges to children's rights posed by the contemporary media context marked by digitization and the responses from various institutions (UN, OECD, Council of Europe, European Commission).
e) Learn about ongoing research projects on these themes and built a research plan for the final work.

General characterization

Code

722011099

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Maria Cristina Mendes da Ponte

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

Plataforma CO:RE (Children Online: research and evidence) e outros recursos digitais
Alper, M., Katz, V. & S. Clark, L. (2016). Researching children, intersectionality and diversity in the digital age. Journal of Children and Media, 10:1 (107-114).
Lemish, D. (2015). Children and Media. A global perspective. New York, Wiley Blackwell.
Ponte, C. (coord). (2020) Nós na rede. Ambientes digitais de crianças e jovens. Almedina ERC
Ponte, C. (2012). Crianças e Media. Pesquisa internacional e contexto português do século XIX à actualidade. Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais.
Drotner, K., Livingstone, S. (2008). International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture. London: Sage

Teaching method

In class introduction to the topics, research proposals, discussion, individual and group work. Final work.

Evaluation method

Available soon

Subject matter

1. The role of the media in the modern construction of childhood. Influences, discourses and representations.
2. Articulating the media representation and the evolution of the perspetive regarding children's rights until the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), contemporary of the world wide web. Challenges of the children's rights for media coverage and representation of children.
3. The childhood in the contemporary context of deep mediatization and digitalization. References to children's rights at the international and national level.
4. The contemporary research agenda. Presentation of ongoing research projects and digital resources, as inspiration for final works.