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MEDIA LITERACY AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE<br />
Strategies, Debates and Good Practices<br />
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news, there was particular concern on focus on the news where children were<br />
the protagonists.<br />
Based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in particular on information<br />
rights (articles 13 and 17), the authors consider that, in Portugal, although there<br />
is concern about the recognition of children as subjects of rights, in practice,<br />
there is still no effective implementation of them.<br />
According to the results, 55.9% of children said that they read usually<br />
newspapers. The portuguese newspaper A Bola was primarily referenced by<br />
boys, while girls chose mainly Correio da Manhã. Although fewer children have<br />
answered the question about how to read the news reports, most of them do it<br />
with company. Girls said they read more news, talking about what they read<br />
with parents, siblings or other relatives.<br />
Television stills to be very present in daily life of children, who reported that this<br />
médium is present in the bedroom. With regard to news information, most<br />
children showed interest by the news. In reasons to like it, those states<br />
"because they talk about children" and "because they say interesting things".<br />
Moreover, they do not like when the stories are bored or upset. 16% of the<br />
children like to watch TV news and only four children are forbidden by their<br />
parents, to see it. Contrary to the results observed in the case of newspapers,<br />
most children prefer to talk about the news with parents and siblings.<br />
Although, in general, there are no substantial differences with regard to gender,<br />
girls talk more about what they see and read, and their answers are more<br />
diverse, when compared to boys.<br />
Internationally, we highlight the work done by both teachers and researchers, as<br />
David Buckingham, Professor of Media and Communications in the School of<br />
Social Sciences at Loughborough University, or by institutions like the Centre<br />
de Liaison de l`Enseignement et des Médias d`Information (CLEMI), in France,<br />
or the Media Awareness Network (Mnet), in Canadá.<br />
Authored by David Buckingham (2000), the book The Making of Citizens had as<br />
central concern to rethink how the understanding of politics is done in<br />
contemporary societies, as well as the link between young people and the<br />
perceptions they create around themselves as citizens.<br />
For the author, the media hold a key role in society, as vehicles of information<br />
that citizens depend, establishing itself as a gateway to the public sphere and<br />
political debate.<br />
According to the results, the author emphasizes the apparent lack of interest<br />
and alienation on the news, especially when they talk about political issues.<br />
There is, also, a lack of enthusiasm in talking about it. For Buckingham, young<br />
people watch the news, but that does not mean they like to do so, since it is a<br />
way to occupy their free time, or as a result of the insistence of the parents.<br />
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