18 de setembro de 2013: Brites, M. J. e Jorge, A. Community web radio and including young people through media education: problematising before changing. COST Action IS0906 - Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies/Meeting in Belgrade, Universidade de Belgrado. http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/system/files/Belgrade%20Programme%202013_08_27.pdf

1. Community webradio and including young
people through media education:
problematising before changing
Lifelong Learning Programme: 531245-LLP-1-2012-1-UK-KA3-KA3MP
COST Action IS0906
Maria José Brites, CIMJ/FCSH, ULP
Ana Jorge, CIMJ/FCSH/NOVA
Belgrade, 18-20 September, 2013

2. RadioActive Europe
• Consortium: United Kingdom, Germany, Malta, Portugal
and Romania
• Implement a participatory online radio among socially
young people and adults
• Financed by European Commission’s Lifelong Learning
Programme (531245-LLP-1-2012-1-UK-KA3-KA3MP)
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3. Purposes
• Promotion of social and technological inclusion through
the production of contents for an online radio and social
media, while building capacity for participants in the
research-action process.
• The theoretical and methodological pillars are thus
located in the field of Media Education and of
Participatory Action Research.
• These implicate that we have to take into consideration
the pre-existing contexts, established in the long run.
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4. Research model
• Develop participatory personal
competences in non-learning
contexts
• Educational potential
• Among disenfranchised
communities
• Participants take up the role of
partners and acquire competences
for their job search and life in
society (Ravenscroft, Attwell,
Blagbrough and Stieglitz, 2011)
• Community empowerment
Participatory
action research (PAR)
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5. Problematisation
Identify: problems and needs and more realistic goals for
change were established.
«Teaching is not a transfering of knowledge, it is the
ability to make its creation possible»
(Freire, 2010/1996: 22)
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6. Problematisation
• WHY: This step is crucial to demonstrate that the researchers are not seen as
experts, but are involved in the experience (Ravenscroft, Attwell, Blagbrough
& Stieglitz, 2011).
• WHAT FOR: Identify problems and needs; set up realistic goals for change
• HOW: Workshops; Focus Groups; Participant and Direct observation;
Informal conversations
• WITH WHOM: Main players (young people, technical workers and
community managers).
• OUTPUT: With this data, we reflect on the processes of analysis, state its
implications for implementation and establish priorities.
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7. Portugal
• Partnership with Programa Escolhas (Choices)
– Created in 2001, as an inter-ministerial approach to social
exclusion of children and young people living in the most excluded
neighbourhoods
• Porto – Metas and Catapulta
• Coimbra – Trampolim
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8. Metas
• Parish with social contrast
• Three levels of participants
• Previous use of webradio (school) and other digital media
• Disseminate their activities and so the programs are expected
to be done with reports and news about the activities: Youth
and Art; Youth and Comunity; Youth and…
• More competitive
• Interaction with other European partners
- http://pt.radioactive101.eu/2013/07/26/metas-programa-01/
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9. Catapulta
• Oporto downtown
• Non-racist NGO
• Two levels of participants
• Lack of digital competences
• Working close to each other – more participation
• Cover issues
• Growing with RA
- http://pt.radioactive101.eu/2013/08/01/catapulta-programa-01/
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10. Trampolim
• Low-income neighbourhoods
(Roma community)
• Three levels of participants
• Way to improve the youngsters' confidence and as form of
widening their cultural and social horizons beyond their
comfort zone
• Difficulty in engaging some of the younger users led to the
development of a more practical approach to the workshops
- http://pt.radioactive101.eu/2013/08/19/trampolim-programa-01/
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11. Final remarks
→Problematisation – field action as a valuable
scientific tool
→Portuguese comparativeness
→European level
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12. http://radioactive101.eu/

13. http://pt.radioactive101.eu/

14. Thank you!
• Maria José Brites, CIMJ/FCSH, ULP: britesmariajose@gmail.com
• Ana Jorge, CIMJ/FCSH/NOVA: anajorge@fcsh.unl.pt