Abstract Scholars and journalists have long hoped that media education could positively tackle the information challenge and enhance social goals such as political and civic engagement particularly among youngsters. This paper seeks to present the way the “Academy for Reading the World: Journalism, Communication and I” promotes an interdisciplinary approach to media literacy … [Read more...] about Reading the World: Journalism, Communication, and I
Author Profile: Lídia Marôpo
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Assistant ProfessorPolytechnic Institute of SetubalLídia Marôpo is assistant professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Setubal and a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences-Nova University (CICS.NOVA). She holds a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences from Nova University (2010) and has published on different aspects of the relationship between children and media: the representation of children in the news, children as media audience, and more recently as content producers in the digital media.