Description du projet
Que se passe-t-il lorsque les adolescents se connectent
La technologie numérique est partout autour de nous. La génération d’adolescents d’aujourd’hui est plongée dans un environnement numérique qui comprend des médias sociaux et interactifs. Le projet TecWell, financé par l’UE, mènera une étude qualitative, globale et longitudinale de la culture numérique des adolescents et de leur utilisation des médias numériques. Alors que la plupart des études reposent à ce jour sur des mesures quantitatives qui proposent peu d’informations sur le contenu réel consommé, ce projet adoptera une approche qualitative mixte en mettant l’accent sur l’ethnographie. Plus précisément, elle étudiera la relation entre deux facteurs susceptibles d’avoir un impact sur le bien-être des adolescents dans leur utilisation des médias numériques: la culture numérique et la manière dont les médias numériques sont intégrés dans la vie familiale. Elle examinera les différences entre les sexes et les catégories socio-économiques. Les résultats permettront d’élaborer des stratégies et des lignes directrices.
Objectif
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.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
43003 Tarragona
Espagne