Project description DEENESFRITPL What happens when teens plug in Digital technology is all around us. Today’s generation of adolescents is immersed in a digital environment that includes social and interactive media. The EU-funded TecWell project will conduct a qualitative, holistic and longitudinal study of adolescent digital literacy and digital media use. Whereas most studies to date rely on quantitative measures that offer little insight into the actual content consumed, this project will take a mixed qualitative approach with an emphasis on ethnography. Specifically, it will investigate the relationship between two factors found to potentially impact teen well-being while using digital media: digital literacy, and the manner in which digital media is integrated into family life. The differences will be examined across gender and socioeconomic divides. The findings will be useful for the development of strategies and guidelines. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective The project is a comparative study of adolescent digital literacy and digital media use, using a mixed qualitative approach with an emphasis on ethnography. The rapid increase in children’s engagement with digital technologies raises questions regarding their potential impact on wellbeing. However, the data currently available to us as to this impact are largely inconclusive. This is partially due to the fact that most studies rely on quantitative measures that offer little insight into the actual content consumed, or the contexts within which engagement with media takes place. The study addresses these limitations by introducing the use of ethnographic methods to investigate the broader relational contexts within which teens’ interaction with digital media takes shape. Specifically, it investigates the relationship between two factors found to potentially impact teen wellbeing while using digital media: digital literacy, and the manners in which digital media is integrated into family life. Differences in digital literacy and family integration patterns are examined across both gender and socioeconomic divides, as well as between children who mostly consume digital media, and those who also produce digital media artifacts and contents through active engagements in spaces such as Fabrication Labs or Makerspaces. By taking a qualitative, holistic and longitudinal approach, the study aims to identify mechanisms involved in facilitating a fruitful integration of digital media into children’s lives, and to generate data needed for the development of strategies and guidelines to aid teens, parents and educators promote digital media engagement in manners that would enhance teen wellbeing. Fields of science social scienceseducational sciencesdidactics Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility Topic(s) MSCA-IF-2019 - Individual Fellowships Call for proposal H2020-MSCA-IF-2019 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF Coordinator UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI Net EU contribution € 172 932,48 Address Carrer de escorxador 43003 Tarragona Spain See on map Region Este Cataluña Tarragona Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
