Media and Citizenship

Recommended Prerequisites

There are no recommended prerequisites 

Teaching Methods

Lectures by academic staff, active participation of students through discussion, analysis of texts in various formats, and group work.

Learning Outcomes

Given an increasingly ubiquitous, technologically sophisticated, and seductive communication context, this course aims to raise awareness of the relationship between the critical use of  media and the exercise of a responsible and participatory citizenship. It is expected to create opportunities for reflection and construction of knowledge about the evolution of media and its implications in terms of access to information, social relationships, civic participation and the concept of literacy itself.

Skills to be developed:

-Understand the place media occupies in everyday life and in social sphere

-Identify key features of the current communication context

-Understand the impact of new media on access to information, social relations, and civic participation

-Characterize the potentialities and risks of using new media

-To analyse the concept of literacy

-To reflect on the role of schools and education in the promotion of media literacy as a condition for the exercise of citizenship

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1.Media and the information and communication technologies

- Characteristics of communication in the digital age

- The new media in everyday life. Uses and trends.

 

2. Potentialities and risks of new media

- The media and the access to information

- The media in social relations

- Citizens as participants in online communication and producers of media texts: ethical choices and social responsibility

 

3. Media, Literacy and Citizenship

- Literacy or literacies?

- Literacy, social participation and citizenship

- Role of school and education in promoting literacy

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 50.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

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Matos, A. (2012). A nova mídia: Desafios sociais e educativos. In N. Baldin & C. Albuquerque (Orgs.), Novos desafios na educação: Responsabilidade social, democracia e sustentabilidade (pp. 123-143). Brasília: Editora LiberLivro.

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Pailliotet, A. W., Mosenthal, P. (2000). Reconceptualizing literacy in the media age. Oxford: Elsevier Science.

Tyner, K. (2010). Media literacy: new agendas in communication. New York: Routledge.