Digital Media in Primary Schools - Literacy or Technology? Analyzing Government and Media Discourses

Sara Pereira; Luis Pereira

doi:10.1177/0895904813492378

Digital Media in Primary Schools - Literacy or Technology? Analyzing Government and Media Discourses

Sara Pereira
, Luis Pereira

University of Minho

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Abstract

This article examines the political and the media discourses concerning the Portuguese governmental program responsible for delivering a laptop named “Magalhães” to all primary school children. The analysis is based on the official documents related to the launch and development of the initiative as well as the press coverage of this topic. The main purpose is to recognize the dominant public discourses and to find out what the media select for the debate in the public sphere. This analysis was done with a particular focus on the critical media literacy framework. The results reveal that the press highlighted the negative aspects of that program and that this framing could have a strong impact on how it was accepted and understood by the public opinion. Analysis also reveals that the governmental initiative was predominantly driven by technological objectives, in particular the access to technology, rather than media literacy objectives.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	316-341
Number of pages	26
Journal	Educational Policy
Volume	29
Issue number	2
Early online date	20 Jun 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904813492378
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2015

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Keywords

Digital Media
ICT governmental program
educational public policy
media literacy
basic education

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