[Commlist] CFP: bYou Congress on "Children, young people and the media: (dis)connected lives?"

CFP: bYou Congress on "Children, young people and the media: 
(dis)connected lives?"

The bYou project, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and 
Technology (FCT), would like to invite interested researchers to submit 
abstracts for presentation at the Congress to be held on 7 and 8 
February 2025 at the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal). Submissions 
are accepted in Portuguese, English and Spanish, but please note that 
the working language of the Congress is Portuguese. The Call for 
Presentations is open until 30 September. Abstracts should not exceed 
500 words and are submitted on the Congress website (in Portuguese): 
https://www.byou.ics.uminho.pt/congresso-byou/ 
<https://www.byou.ics.uminho.pt/congresso-byou/>

Call: "Children, young people and the media: (dis)connected lives?"

14 hours and 30 minutes is the average amount of time that 1131 children 
and young people from 26 school groups in Portugal, aged between 11 and 
19, say they spend on media-related activities on a ‘normal’ weekday, 
with a significant proportion of this sample recognising their 
dependence on mobile phones. These are the figures obtained by the bYou 
project - Study of young people's experiences and expressions of the 
media, funded by the FCT. While media consumption points to lives 
connected to screens, the dimension of expression and participation 
points to a more disconnected and less involved public. It is on the 
basis of this data that we launched the motto for the byou Congress: 
‘Children, young people and the media: (dis)connected lives?’. Taking 
the results obtained as a starting point, we want to understand how 
their daily lives are woven with the media; analyse their practices of 
expression and participation; and identify the issues that connect and 
disconnect them from screens and the world. In line with what French 
philosopher Paul Virilio (2020) says, this Congress will be an 
opportunity to debate whether ‘we are no longer looking at the stars, 
but at the screens’.

The bYou Congress accepts proposals that discuss the results of studies 
or pedagogical practices involving the media, children and young people 
up to the age of 18, around the following themes:
- Media practices (Internet, social networks, cinema and audiovisuals, 
consumption of information and news...);
- The role and importance of the media in everyday life;
- Well-being and the media;
- Children's rights and the media;
- Participation and expression in and using the media;
- Creation and production about, with and for children and young people;
- Media productions for children and young people;
- School media;
- Media literacy;
- Research methodologies with children and young people;
- Other topics that are relevant to the theme of the congress.

For further information, please contact (byou /at/ ics.uminho.pt) 
<mailto:(byou /at/ ics.uminho.pt)>

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