Sara Pereira, coordinator of the project "bYou – Study on children and young people´s experiences and expressions of the media", financed by FCT, presented the general outline of the project and some of the results during the program 90 Segundos de Ciência (90 Seconds of...
Cláudia Agostinho (24 years old), Martim Agostinho (20), Mariana Agostinho (11) and Catarina Mota (23), born in Leiria, and Sofia Oliveira (18) and André Oliveira (15) from Almada, Portugal, sued 32 countries for lack of satisfactory actions to promote significant changes against the effects of...
Researchers from the bYou project presented the communication Participation through the lenses of children and youth in Portugal: conceptions, forms and reasons for participating and not participating at the conference “Disrupted or disruptive audiences? From reception to participation in a post-truth era”. The ECREA Audience...
In a small town in northern France, four teenagers from a neighbourhood with a reputation for being "problematic" are selected to star in a film, which will profoundly affect their lives. The residents wonder why they have chosen the "worst" in their neighbourhood. The film's...
Milobs, the Media, Information and Literacy Observatory, launched a Cycle of Seminars that aims to contribute to thinking about the present and future of media literacy. The next seminar will be on the 15th of June, will take place in digital format and will have...
On Europe Day, the bYou/MILObs seminar discussed the well-being, interests and concerns of children. On May 9, in an online meeting, Margarida Gaspar de Matos (University of Lisbon/ISAMB and Catholic University), Sara Pereira (bYou Project, University of Minho) and Margarida Toscano (bYou Project, School Libraries...
The next bYou/MILObs seminar, entitled "Well-being of children and young people: what are their interests and concerns?", takes place on 09 May at 3pm online (Zoom). Access is free, with prior registration here. What is the overview of the well-being of school-age children and young people...
They are young, avid readers and booktokers. Sergio and Iris are part of a new generation of literary disseminators on tik tok who are creating a new generation of readers on TikTok. Sergio, who had no reading habits, started reading in 2021 because of TikTok, devouring many...
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the British data protection regulator, fined the social network Tiktok €14.4 million for the misuse of personal data of users under the age of 13. The ICO estimates that around 1.4 million children under the age of 13 used the platform...
Cellphones in schools: yes or no? This was the theme on which psychologist Eduardo Sá reflected this Thursday in the podcast "Why yes is not an answer" on Rádio Observador. According to the psychologist, children under the age of 12 should not systematically use their...