The Portuguese Scientific-Pedagogical Council for Continuing Training (Conselho Científico-Pedagógico da Formação Contínua, CCPFC) accredited the “bYou Congress — Children, young people and the media: (dis)connected lives?” as a training course (12h). The accreditation is valid for Educators and Teachers in Basic and Secondary Education (from...
ECREA - the European Communication Research and Education Association - brings together communication researchers and university teachers from all over Europe. Every two years, this association brings together more than 1,000 professionals in a different European city to participate in the ECREA conference and to...
Sara Pereira and Daniel Brandão, researchers of the bYou Project, attended the IV Conferencia Internacional en Comunicación y Tecnologías Aplicadas (IV International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies) which took place at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas in the city of Lima (Peru) between...
On August 30th, the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) of Brazil suspended the operation of platform X, previously known as Twitter. The argument for the court decision is based on the fact that the company did not appoint a legal representative in the country, contrary...
Visual culture is an intrinsic part of our daily lives and photographs are just a click away. However, the ease and speed of taking photographs is a recent phenomenon. In 1975, the North American company Kodak sold the first digital camera, while the cell phone...
As the US presidential election approaches, Democrats and Republicans experienced a rare moment of unity in the US Senate on July 30. The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) passed with 93 votes in favor and only 3 against, and the House of Representatives will soon consider...
The bYou Congress Children, young people and the media: (dis)connected lives? will be held between the 7th and 8th of February 2025, at the University of Minho, Gualtar. The event will present current debates about the younger generations´ daily uses of the media, their practices...
The Annals of the VII Luso-Brazilian Seminar on Early Childhood Education and the III Luso-Afro-Brazilian Congress on Childhood and Education has been published and includes two new articles by the bYou project: "'Grita, diz, faz, expressa-te!' Uma campanha para promover a expressão de crianças e...
The video of the Seminar held on June 11th is available. It is the fourth and final session of the cycle of seminars "Present and future of media literacy - contributions to a new agenda" organized by MILObs in partnership with bYou Project, with interventions...
The Spanish Council of Ministers approved a draft of the organic law for the protection of minors in the digital environment at the beginning of June. The new legislative package increases the minimum age for the treatment of personal data from 14 to 16 years...