Until September 30 October 10, the bYou project is accepting proposals for papers for the congress it is organising between February 7 and 8, 2025, at the University of Minho in Braga. All abstracts will be subject to blind peer review and the results of the evaluation will be known by 31 October this year. Paper proposals should be submitted using the form available on the congress website.
Based on the motto ‘Children, young people and the media: (un)connected lives?’, the bYou project congress has the following call for papers:
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:
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