Resources for media literacy : mediating the research on children and media

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Sara
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Pinto, Manuel, Pereira, Luís
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/27090
• topic: Media literacy; Knowledge mediation; Children and youth; School; Family; Television; Videogames; Social networks; Alfabetización mediática; Mediación del conocimiento; Niños y jóvenes; Escuela; Familia; Televisión; Videojuegos; Redes sociales

Much has been said and written about media education, its relevance and goals. Beyond directives, resolutions or recommendations, research in this area has allowed deepening of its foundation, but it has also facilitated the acknowledgement of its weakest points or faults. One of the critical points noted by the training and research work that has been developed at the University of Minho, Portugal, during the last 20 years is the inexistence of resources and materials that might be used for promoting media education in different contexts. And this is not only about the existence or inexistence of materials, it is about the importance of transferring knowledge into practice; it is about the importance of mediating the produced knowledge to its audience. This concern was the main basis of the project ‗Media Education in Booklets‘ carried out at the Society and Communication Research Centre and funded by the Evens Foundation, Belgium. This paper intends to present the resources produced within this project, concerning three booklets: one about mediation of TV at school and at home; another one, about videogames, ways of playing, benefits, dangers, creativity and interculturality; and the third, about the Internet and social networks and the new forms of relationships and communication that these means allow.