bYou Congress: first registration phase until 1 December

With the call for papers phase over, the first registration period is now open, until 1 December, via the congress website.

Based on the motto ‘Children, young people and the media: (un)connected lives?’, the bYou 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 mobile phone dependency being recognised by a significant proportion of this sample. 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’.

[Posted: 06-11-2024]