CIJED - Competências de informação para jovens da era digital

Eurointelligence (2019), an online economic news service, claims that the so-called Generation Z (born around the 2000s) forms their opinion mainly on platforms such as Youtube and Instagram and that the party system is still very much connected to the media traditional people, does not know how to communicate with these young people. Numerous studies attest to the popularity of so-called digital influencers – producers of digital content who narrate their lives to gain followers and monetize them (Marshall, Barbour & Moore, 2018) – among children and adolescents (Àndo, 2016; Pereira et al, 2018 ; Aran-Ramspott, 2018 & Marôpo et al, 2018; Jorge et al, 2018). Crystal Abidin (2018), renowned researcher of digital culture, warns that although academics and journalists underestimate digital celebrities, they promote messages with great repercussion, especially among the youngest. In this sense, this project aims to study, in partnership with the Sebastião da Gama School Group, how young people (2nd and 3rd cycles) consume information, in a broad sense, in social media. The objective is to better understand how they build meanings about political issues, consumption and lifestyles, taking into account the digital content they access. As a final product, measures will be developed to promote digital literacy and information in a school context (workshops for teachers and students), with a focus on promoting a critical view of the world.