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Kids and TV: watching wisely

Despite many changes in the media panorama, television continues to assume a significant presence in children’s daily lives. TV is a means of communication that plays an important role in children’s socialization processes. It represents a privileged source of learning and contact with the world. The amount of time young people devote to TV and [...]

Videogames: stepping up to the next level

After dedicating the first booklet, Kids and TV: Watching Wisely, to television, the second issue of this series now analyses videogames. Learning about videogames is crucial to helping children and young people become more critically minded about this much appreciated activity. Several studies have shown that parents find it difficult to deal with this reality— which, [...]

Internet and Social Networks

This booklet closes a series of three brochures which put young people and the media at the centre of the discussion. After television and video games, social networks come up as a central topic that is prevalent in the daily lives of a significant number of people. The goal of this publication meets the purposes [...]

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In 2009, the Evens Foudation awarded the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) of the University of Minho and the British Film Institute (England) the “Prize for Intercultural Education 2009 – Media Education“.

The application submitted by CECS (with the team of researchers Sara Pereira, coordinator, Luís Pereira and Manuel Pinto) resulted in a project entitled Media Education in Booklets: Learning, Knowing and Acting.

The prize awarded by the Evens Foundation, Belgium, under the patronage of the European Commissioner for Information, Society and Media, Viviane Reding, was designed “to highlight the importance of media education and to support the development of new sustainable projects in this field in Europe, aimed at children”.

The CECS project has resulted in the production of three booklets that include the graphic creation of characters (by Pedro MotaTeixeira) as well as texts and drawings done by children and young people from several schools of the region of Braga. The booklets sought to provide parents and educators with useful information on how to deal with the relationship between children and media. The first booklet focused on TV and was followed by two others – one about Videogames and the third about the Internet and Social Networks.

The Portuguese version of these booklets was distributed for free by a regional newspaper, with a circulation of about 9000 copies, and disseminated in schools, libraries and scientific conferences. In order to cross borders and reach a wider audience, they were translated into English.

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