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MEDIA LITERACY AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE<br />
Strategies, Debates and Good Practices<br />
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Overall, the news are considered repetitive and unattractive, although for some<br />
of these young people attend them is a sign of maturity. This position was more<br />
evident in older students, though not always explicitly. And while the boys<br />
showed greater interest political issues, the girls were concerned primarily with<br />
environmental and climate issues.<br />
In turn, the news continues to be connoted as something that has credibility,<br />
young people continue to trust them to get information about the world.<br />
Although Buckingham consider, in the case of television news, that they create<br />
the illusion of being informed, the studies suggest that these lead to a sense of<br />
belonging and stability.<br />
In conclusion, Buckingham says that the common idea that children are cynical<br />
and apathetic in the face of news is a symptom denoting the need for more<br />
innovation in content, in order to capture the interest of youngsters. With regard<br />
to television and the content it produces, the author believes it is important to<br />
look at how producers position their audiences, because, in relation to the<br />
children, they should look at them as citizens and potential participants of the<br />
public sphere.<br />
4. Methodology<br />
This work is the result of a qualitative research framework, with a class of 15<br />
children (8 girls, 7 boys), aged 9 and 10 years old, from a public school located<br />
in Oporto disctrit.<br />
The main objective was to see, from the look of the children themselves, what<br />
kind of understanding they creat around news, putting them in a perspective of<br />
receptors, producers and evaluators of news discourse. We assume that<br />
children are active right subjects, with power to engage in the affairs of<br />
everyday life, creating views expressed freely and in conjunction with their<br />
maturity.<br />
Methodologically, we used a registration tool. So we asked the group to develop<br />
a short text for each of three specific issues: What is information? If you were a<br />
journalist, what choises would you do? How do you assess the information?<br />
The choice of these issues stemmed from the need for children to talk about the<br />
news, showing the role and place of information in their daily lives. It was a<br />
reflection free, so from the outset, we clarify that there would be no right or<br />
wrong answers.<br />
Contrary to what is usual, the answers were developed in children’s homes,<br />
although we have made contact with the class and presented the aim of the<br />
research in the classroom environment. This is because, during the weekend,<br />
we wanted to give children freedom to write the texts and arouse curiosity for<br />
news, so they were more attentive to the current affairs.<br />
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