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Comunicação e Sociedade
Print version ISSN 1645-2089On-line version ISSN 2183-3575
Abstract
PRIETO, Julián de la Fuente; MARTINEZ-BORDA, Rut and DIAZ, Pilar Lacasa. Guided participation in youth media practices. Comunicação e Sociedade [online]. 2020, vol.37, pp.21-38. ISSN 1645-2089. https://doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.37(2020).2383.
Youth has to deal with some digital practices and develop media discourses on their own. Our study aims to deepen these concepts from the point of view of the guided participation, understood in this case as a collaborative process of media literacy based on culturally significant activities. Our data comes from a series of workshops that took place at the Telefonica Flagship Store (Madrid, Spain) with teens between eight and 14 years old. The evidence was collected by qualitative research techniques such as observation, conversation and descriptive analysis. The results give us some preliminary ideas for discussion: 1) social media practices enable youth to connect their online and offline activities with their interests; 2) the generation of collaborative learning scenarios based on the interaction between young people becomes a fundamental element of media literacy and 3) user-generated content emerges as an identity and habits depiction in media, especially among young people.
Keywords : youth; media; literacy; guided participation; user-generated content.