How elderly people experience ICT within their family context

UIDB/05021/2020 UIDP/05021/2020Starting from the concept of intergenerational solidarity, this paper examines how relations of 36 elderly people with younger generations of their families influence their appropriations and uses of ICT. A multi-qualitative approach - non-participant observation in ICT classes attended by the participants, followed by focus groups and semi-structured interviews - conducted in Brazil and Portugal reveals that the family contexts influence how older people deal with ICT in distinctive ways. In both countries, the influence happens either by building up social interactions and increasing communication inside and outside the family or by contributing to social and emotional isolation, even when family generations are physically close. Even within families - where supportive ties tend to be stronger than outside - intergenerational solidarity regarding digital access and use cannot be taken for granted.publishersversionpublishe

Crianças (3-8 anos) e ecrãs

UID/CCI/04667/2016Os Estatutos da ERC (Lei n.º 53/2005, de 8 de novembro) estabelecem como competência do Conselho Regulador «assegurar a realização de estudos e outras iniciativas de investigação e divulgação nas áreas da comunicação social e dos conteúdos, no âmbito da promoção do livre exercício da liberdade de expressão e de imprensa e da utilização crítica dos meios de comunicação social». No contexto desta orientação, a ERC promove, desde 2014, o projeto «Públicos e Consumos de Media», cada edição aprofundando um tema: em 2014, foram os media digitais; em 2015, o consumo audiovisual. Para a terceira edição do projeto, que consubstancia uma parceria ERC-Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH), propusemo-nos empreender um estudo pioneiro em Portugal (e na maior parte dos países europeus) sobre usos de meios eletrónicos por crianças de três a oito anos. A escolha deste tema enquadra-se no objetivo da regulação dos media de «assegurar a proteção dos públicos mais sensíveis, tais como menores, relativamente a conteúdos e serviços suscetíveis de prejudicar o respetivo desenvolvimento». Com um trabalho de campo realizado em 2016, o estudo visou promover o conhecimento sobre como as crianças mais novas estão a crescer em contacto com a tecnologia digital existente à sua volta, os usos que fazem dos ecrãs, as competências e literacias que vão adquirindo, as situações de dano que podem experimentar e os modos como as famílias intervêm nessa socialização digital. Esta teia de envolvimento combina expectativas, preocupações e pressões sociais. Rapidamente se percebeu que o resultado final era muito mais do que isso. As respostas dos pais contrariavam ideias como a das crianças como «nativas digitais» ou a da «morte da televisão» em tempos de ecrãs tácteis. Daí a interrogação do título deste livro: Boom digital? in introduçãopublishersversionpublishe

Reasons and circumstances that lead to the non-use of media by young people and their families

This article argues for the need to pay attention to the dynamics of refusing and rejecting the use of media to better understand a highly mediatized consumer society. The theoretical background utilizes resistance to the media, family contexts of socialisation and mediated society. We analysed 18 interviews carried out in Portugal – undertaken as part of wider research project involving 40 young people and their families, on their relationship with the media regarding citizenship rights –, which showed signs of non-use of media. This article characterises these individuals, their contexts and motives. Through identifying refusal of the internet, social networks, news and television, we arrive at distinct five types: “I do not like and I do not want to use”; “At this stage of life, no!”; “Split between I can’t have and I can’t buy it”; “I don’t want to draw attention to myself and don’t want to get ‘hooked’”; and “Doing something different and doing it better”

Whose contexts? Whose homes?

UID/SOC/04647/2013This paper reviews background factors of the research questions that guide this network. From the White Paper I move on to other methodological contributions emerging from recent international literature.publishersversionpublishe

Researching the roles of news in children's and young people's identities

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Masters of the Digital? Who are the children who self-report online aggression?

There are overlaps between online victimisation and aggression – this is what the EU Kids Online study in Portugal of 1,440 children aged 9-16 showed. In this blog, Cristina Ponte, Maria João Leote de Carvalho and Susana Batista discuss the common traits and risks factors between the two pathways, as revealed in their recent article. High levels of perceived digital skills and high levels of emotional vulnerability are common to both online victimisation and aggression

Schools’ and Children’s Practices with Digital Media

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Digitally empowered? Portuguese children and the national poli- cies for internet inclusion

Accessing the internet more than their parents, two out of three Portuguese children and youths (9-16 years) have laptops and go online in their bedrooms while one in four use public libraries to access the internet, both values being above the European average. Summing up the national ICT policies that led to the wide availability of laptops together with the development of a public network of centers, this paper is based on two research presents profiles of Portuguese children and youth attending those centers. The analysis demonstrates their enthusiasm as internet users as well as the constraints and challenges in being empowered with informational and communicational skills

Retos online para los jóvenes portugueses e italianos en 2018

Based on the results of the EU Kids Online survey (2018) already completed in Portugal and Italy, this article analyses two issues related to the growing dissemination of hate messages and fake news: firstly, how Italian and Portuguese children and young people aged 9-17 are coping with negative online content and conduct. Secondly, how they report their informational skills and their relationship with the news content. In comparison to previous surveys conducted in both countries (EU Kids Online 2010, Net Children Go Mobile, 2014), the results reveal an increase in negative online experiences – such as exposure to hate messages, to violent and gory images, or being the victim or perpetrator of cyberbullying. Although the levels of troubling experiences are much higher in Portugal, Italian and Portuguese children present relatively similar patterns of coping. In both countries informational skills relating to surfing or searching for accurate information are reported much less frequently than technological or social digital skills. Gender and age are significant in these two issues. These results underline the need for empowering children with human values and critical literacy, as part of a culture of digital rights and responsibilities.Derivado de la encuesta EU Kids Online (2018) este artículo analiza dos temas relacionados con la creciente difusión de mensajes de odio y noticias falsas: en primer lugar, cómo los niños y jóvenes italianos y portugueses (9-17) se comportan ante los contenidos y conductas negativas online. En segundo lugar, cómo aprenden a informarse y cómo gestionan las noticias. En comparación con las encuestas anteriores realizadas en Portugal e Italia (EU Kids Online 2010, Net Children Go Mobile, 2014), los resultados evidencian un aumento de experiencias negativas en línea (mensajes de odio, imágenes violentas y sangrientas, ser víctima o perpetrador de acoso cibernético). Aunque esto ocurre con más frecuencia en Portugal, los niños italianos y portugueses presentan patrones relativamente similares de afrontamiento. En ambos, la competencia navegando o buscando información precisa es menor que la competencia tecnológicas o sociales, afectando el género y la edad. Los resultados subrayan la necesidad de empoderar a los niños con valores humanistas y alfabetizaciones críticas, como parte de una cultura de derechos y responsabilidades digitales.Financed by ‘EU Kids Online’ is a thematic network funded by the EC Safer Internet plus Programme (SIP-2005-MD-038229)