The emergence of the Internet and the way it has grown worldwide is considered by many as a revolution, not only because it has changed the way people interact with the world, but also because it has become an essential part of most people's lives [1], becoming an increasingly indispensable tool in our daily lives, whether, for leisure activities, work or study, and its users are constantly increasing. In this ...
With the emergence of social media and continuous progress and paradigm-shifting breakthroughs in new media, communication professionals need to keep up to date with what consumers are talking about online. Brands tapped into this reality and understood that to influence interactions in this digital landscape, they would need to bring digital influencers into the equation about social media. By recognising that...
The project “Media Literacy in Higher Education: an exploratory study within Media Studies Students” aims to assess the degree of media literacy of students in the field of Communication Sciences, namely in terms of its ethical challenges. This article presents partial results of the student’s assessment in terms of journalism practices and its code of ethics. 72 students, from the three years of the degree in ...
Apresentam-se neste artigo resultados de uma investigação que envolveu estudantes do Instituto Politécnico de Viseu (IPV) e que procurou perceber qual a tendência em termos de acesso e uso da Internet por parte dos estudantes do IPV durante os períodos de confinamento em Portugal. Neste estudo de caso implementou-se um questionário e realizaram-se entrevistas que permitiram a recolha de dados junto de 94 partic...
As part of the project “Media Literacy in Higher Education: an exploratory study with Social Communication students”, the authors intend to assess the degree of media literacy of students attending a course in Media Studies. This article analyses the data that crosses the answers to an online questionnaire with the results of a focus group, instruments applied to first-year undergraduate students in the scope o...
A partir do projeto “Literacia Mediática no Ensino Superior: um estudo exploratório com alunos de Comunicação Social”, é intenção dos autores avaliar o grau de literacia dos estudantes de um curso na área das Ciências da Comunicação. Neste artigo são analisados os dados que cruzam as respostas a um questionário online com os resultados do focus group, instrumentos aplicados a alunos do 1.º ano da licenciatura, ...
The challenges of misinformation remain at the top of current concerns, both in terms of the need to understand the phenomenon and in terms of the challenges that fake news represents for the generations more connected to digital media. As part of the project "Media Literacy in Higher Education: an exploratory study with Social Communication students", this article seeks to understand how senior students of a M...
The global pandemic, triggered by the COVID-19 virus, drove millions of higher education post-grad students into a spiral of challenges that, according to their scientific field of studies and focus, could even differ among students from the same program and course. This paper presents the deconstruction, presentation, and analysis of the almost iterative reviewing and rescheduling of research conducted by a st...
Journalism plays an important role in the construction of reality and is, at the same time, one of the doors of access to the world. Traditional media underwent an inevitable reconversion with the emergence and growth of the internet and, currently, there is a significant change in the information consumption profile, especially among the younger population, who are digital natives and the main users of social ...
Social distancing as a prophylactic measure against COVID-19 inevitably caused several changes in the teaching-learning processes at a global level. Among the different strategies adopted by educational institutions, remote learning was one of the most chosen options to replace physical presence. According to this reality, the demand for and the offer of short online courses, without the need to be in a particu...