Author(s): Bonacho, Fernanda ; Mata, Maria J. ; Lopes, Anabela de Sousa ; Rezola, Maria Inácia ; Santos, Zélia
Date: 2019
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/13045
Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
Subject(s): Comunicação; Jornalismo; Literacia mediática; Literacia transmedia; Jovens
For a long time already, we have been searching for the best ways to promote critical thought, especially due to the phenomenon of disinformation. Scholars and journalists have long hoped that media education could positively enhance social goals such as political and civic engagement particularly among youngsters. Today, more than ever, it is important to know how to distinguish information, news, and fiction. It is important to know how to read the world and be able to communicate and be informed. This paper presents the methodological architecture of a communication literacy project for young adults from 13 to 25 years old, not only to understand the actual use of information and social media but also to develop their critical thought, communication, and self-regulation skills. The project “Reading the World Academy: Journalism, Communication and I” has been conceived by a multidisciplinary group of ESCS/IPL researchers, embraced by other academic institutions specialized in communication and journalism studies and selected as one of the Gulbenkian Knowledge Academies. Engaging youngsters from high school and university level in a national collaborative and immersive experience, the Academy selected a set of competences considered essential to deal with contemporary media complexities that insist on hindering our reality readings.
