Share Paper: Communicating through school newspapers, local newspapers and social media: what are the preferred K12 students’ topics?

  1. Vitor Tomé, Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  2. João Ruivo, Instituto Piaget, Portugal
  3. Lídia Barata, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
  4. Valentina Valente, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Abstract: In a media-saturated world it is crucial to empower children and young people to deal with the media which means that we have to develop Media Literacy. To do that the society has to prepare them to do critical analysis and reflexive production of media messages both in traditional and new media. Besides that at school it is important to allow the students discuss and choose the topics that they want to talk about. This paper presents results of a Media Education project in Portugal (2008-2011) about school newspapers production. By the end of the project we analyzed all the ...