Docente
Teresa Sofia Castro

Resume

Teresa Sofia Castro (ORCID iD0000-0002-7148-9443) is a Professor and Research Assistant at Universidade Lusófona (she achieved 1st place in the Communication area in the FCT CEEC 2022 - DOI 10.54499/2022.00105.CEECIND/CP1760/CT0001). She teaches in the Bachelor Applied Communication and the Master Media and Information Literacy and Digital Citizenship. She is the Co-Pi of the FCT-funded project YouNDigital: Youth, News, and Digital Citizenship (DOI 10.54499/PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021), with M. J. Brites as PI. Her research interests are children and young people's (0-24) digital lives, digital parenting and mediation, digital citizenship, ethics in research, innovative methodologies and participatory-action research. She has experience doing research with children and families with different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. She did a Post-Doc (1st place award funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology-FCT in 2017), with the supervision of Cristina Ponte (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and Emma Bond (University of Suffolk, UK), in the field of Communication Sciences - Media and Cultural Studies (2017 to 2022). The longitudinal study iTech Families involves the participation of families based in Portugal and the UK. She holds a European PhD in Sciences of Education, Educational Technology (University of Minho). The research project, funded by FCT, resulted in the thesis: "It's a complicated situation", a qualitative study with school-aged children. She explored contributions from sociology of risk, childhood studies, science and technology studies, and zemiology (critical criminology). Holds a Master in Childhood Studies, ICT (University of Minho), and a degree in Philosophy and Humanities (Portuguese Catholic University). She is an integrated researcher at CICANT (DOI 10.54499/UIDB/05260/2020); member of EU Kids Online and DigiLitEY: COST networks, collaborates with the Children and Adolescents Online (CriA.On) platform, translating scientific data and information to society. To contribute to children's and young people's digital literacies and citizenship, she creates innovative educational materials, workshops and training for young people, professionals, carers and parents. Collaborates with Portuguese Safer Internet Centre, Lusoinfo Multimedia writing funding proposals and giving training on digital citizenship; Child Support Institute (IAC) in the writing of interactive books for children, families, and schools on the wise use of digital technologies (Alerta Premika! Online risk detected). She gave training to young offenders in the Portuguese project: Dici-Educa- Educational centres with digital and civic competencies, coordinated by Maria José Brites (funding Academies of Knowledge, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Universidade Lusófona - COFAC and CICANT). She collaborates on European-funded projects: ySKILLS - funding AH2020 (2018...); ASAP - funding E+ (2022...); DIGcapabilities - FORSKER23 (2024...). She did three international research internships (UK -University of Suffolk, Belgium - KU Leuven, and Italy - Università Cattolica of Milan) and one Erasmus Mobility (Doba University, Slovenia). Her research has been published with e.g. JOCAM, Media&Communication, springer, Routledge, Palgrave, Emerald) on the topics she investigates (digital uses, abuses and harms, digital citizenship and digital literacies, online violence, self-harming produced by children, digital parenting and digital families, research and ethics ). She edited three books and is the author of an encyclopaedia entry. In 2019-2022 she was appointed a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Suffolk, UK. In 2023 she received training from Erasmus+ and was an evaluator of applications submitted to the national Agency. She is the supervisor of Master's students at Lusofona University and Portuguese Catholic University.

Graus

• Doutoramento
  Ciências da Educação/ Sciences of Education: Tecnologia Educativa/Specialisation: Educational Technology
• Licenciatura
  Filosofia e Humanidades/ Philosophie and Humanities
• Mestrado
  Estudos da Criança/ Childhood Studies
• Pós-doutoramento
  iTec Families: Parents and children - A longitudinal and ecological perspective on socialization, consumption and mediation processes around digital media
• Outros
  First Certificate in English of University of Cambridge
• Outros
  Escrita Científica em Inglês / English scientific writing
• Especialização pós-licenciatura
  Estudos da Criança/ Childhood Studies
• Outros
  Certificado de Registo de Formador (Teacher AdvancedTraining Certificate)
• Outros
  Certificado de Aptidão Pedagógica (CAP/CCP)/Pedagogical Aptitude Certificate
• Outros
  Curso de Escrita de textos de opinião/Writing opinion pieces course
• Outros
  Curso de Análise de Conteúdo com MAXqda/ Content Analysis with MAXqda course
• Outros
  SPSS
• Outros
  Métodos e técnicas para análise de dados: plataformas sociais/Methods and techniques for analysing data: social platforms
• Outros
  Sessões formativas para a avaliação de candidaturas Erasmus+ KA2/Training sessions for evaluating Erasmus+ applications KA2
• Outros
  e-Learning Ecologies: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning for the Digital Age
• Outros
  A Inteligência Artificial vai transformar a Escola

Publicações

Magazine article

• 2022, Cidadania Digital e "Educação para o Direito": Contributos do projeto DiCi-Educa para a intervenção em centros educativos/Digital Citizenship and "Education for the Law": Contributions of the DiCi-Educa project to intervention in educational centres, Sombras e Luzes - Revista da Direção-Geral de Reinserção e Serviços Prisionais
• 2021, Analisando desigualdades e competências digitais em tempos de pandemia, Estado da Educação 2020
• 2011, Quando as teclas falam, as palavras calam - utilização de telemóvel e Messenger por crianças do 5.º e 6.º anos de escolaridade/ When keys speak, words remain silent. Use of mobile phones and Messenger by 5th and 6th grade school children, Revista Científica e-curriculum

Journal issue

• Media & Jornalismo, 24

Journal article

• 2024-11-14, Perspetivas dos jovens sobre o mundo que os rodeia e contextos de cidadania digital/ Youth views of the world and contexts of digital citizenship, Media & Jornalismo
• 2024-06-24, Young People Learning About Algorithms: Five Profiles Spanning From Ineptitude to Enchantment, Media and Communication
• 2023-12-31, VIEWS OF THE WORLD AND LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE OF NEWS: RESEARCHING YOUTH, NEWS, AND CITIZENSHIP IN PORTUGAL, AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
• 2022-11-21, Digital rights in digital exclusion settings: the experiences of institutionalised youth in Portuguese detention centres, Journal of Children and Media
• 2022-11-15, Digital Rights, Institutionalised Youths, and Contexts of Inequalities, Media and Communication
• 2022, Cidadania Digital e "Educação para o Direito"/ Digital Citizenship and "Education for the Law", Revista Sombras E Luzes
• 2021-01-02, Overcoming pandemic social distancing challenges in research in Portugal and England, Journal of Children and Media
• 2021, "Cuidado com quem você fala na internet" - mediação parental pelo olhar de pré-adolescentes / "Be careful to whom you talk to on the internet" - parental mediation through the eyes of pre-adolescents, Cadernos CEDES (CENTRO DE ESTUDOS EDUCAÇÃO E SOCIEDADE)
• 2021, "A ponto Pé de Flor: discutindo competências digitais entre jovens em Portugal"/ "A ponto Pé de Flor: discussing digital skills among young people in Portugal", Saber e criação na cultura digital: diálogos interdisciplinares
• 2019, Parenting young children in changing media environments with twenty years apart, Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies
• 2019, Implicados, intermitentes, desengajados?: Estilos de mediação de pais de crianças de 3-8 anos que usam a internet/ Implicit, intermittent, disengaged?: Mediation styles of parents of 3-8 year old children using the internet, Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas
• 2019, Contar o tempo ou fazer com que o tempo conte? A perspectiva dos pais portugueses sobre tempo de tela/ Counting time or making time count? Portuguese parents' perspective on screen time, Revista Cocar, Crianças, Mídias e Mediações
• 2018-09, Internet of Toys: advantages, risks and challenges of a consumption scenario that is intriguing parents and researchers, Intercom: Revista Brasileira de Ciências da Comunicação
• 2018, A influência familiar nas atividades digitais de crianças portuguesas de 6-8 anos/ Family influence on the digital activities of Portuguese children aged 6-8 years, Revista Científica Educação para o Desenvolvimento
• 2017, Research, children an ethics:, Revista EDaPECI – Educação a Distância e Práticas Educativas Comunicacionais e Interculturais, dossiê: Ética em Pesquisa em Contextos Educativos
• 2015-12-18, "Everybody does pirating!" Children's views about online piracy, Configurações
• 2013, "I love my bones!" - Self-harm and dangerous eating youth behaviours in Portuguese written blogs, Young Consumers
• 2012, Online violence: Not beautiful enough... not thin enough. Anorectic testimonials in the web, PsychNology Journal
• 2006, A Holografia: uma possível viragem qualitativa no Ensino acompanhado?/ Holography: a possible qualitative shift in accompanied teaching? , Revista Configurações

Thesis / Dissertation

• 2023, Master, É uma era diferente… é normal : famílias digitais no pós-pandemia : um estudo qualitativo com famílias e crianças entre os 9 e os 16 anos
• 2023, Master, Arquitetura da marca e comunicação digital : o contexto da empresa Samsys
• 2015, PhD, It's a complicated situation. Harm in everyday experiences with technology. A qualitative study with school-aged children
• 2008, Master, Quando as teclas falam, as palavras calam : estudo sobre a utilização do telemóvel e do messenger por crianças do 5º e 6º ano do distrito de Braga/ When keys speak, words remain silent: a study on the use of mobile phones and messenger by 5th and 6th grade children in the district of Braga

Book

• 2021, Alerta Premika! Risco online detetado - Um jogo online arriscado: e agora, Tiago?/Premika Alert! Online risk detected - a risky online: now what, Tiago?, Teresa Sofia Castro, Edições Afrontamento
• 2017, Alerta Premika! Risco online detetado - Ameaça nas redes sociais: e agora, Marta?/ Premika alert! Online risk detected - Threat on social networks: what now, Marta?, Teresa Sofia Castro, Edições Afrontamento

Book chapter

• 2024, It’s not by Accident! It’s by Design. Design Methods to Reach (Inter)generational Perspective
• 2023, YouNDigital: A Multidisciplinary Co-creation Strategy to Define Audiences, Users, and Contexts of Use of a Digital Newsroom
• 2023, Jovens institucionalizados e desconexão digital forçada/Institutionalised young people and forced digital disconnection, TECNOLOGIA DIGITAL E PROTEÇÃO DE CRIANÇAS, ADOLESCENTES E IDOSOS: Segurança, inclusão e educação digital , Editora Thoth
• 2022, Overcoming pandemic social distancing challenges in research in Portugal and England, Children and Media Research and Practice during the Crises of 2020 , 1st, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
• 2022, Contribution Participatory Methodologies and Generational Research, Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design, Interaction and Technology Acceptance, Springer International Publishing
• 2021, Ás vezes torna-se difícil saber o que devemos fazer: mediação parental em tempos de COVID-19 /Sometimes it's not easy to know what to do: parental mediation during COVID-18, DIGIKIDS - A Utilização de tecnologias touchscreen por crianças até aos 6 anos, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
• 2021, Thinking the digital in offline contexts, Edi{\c c
• 2021, Playing, empowering, dialoguing and reflecting, Edições Lusófona
• 2021, Digital parenting and transnational migration: cultural and emotional drives for digital media use, Young Children’s rights in a digital world: Play, design, and practice, 23, Springer
• 2021, DICI-Educa methodologies, Edi{\c c
• 2021, Conhecer e antecipar competências digitais de jovens. Primeiros contributos do projeto ySKILLS com foco em Portugal , Juventude (s): Movimentos Globais. Desafios Futuros, Húmus
• 2020, Pensar o digital em offline/ Thinking the digital offline, DiCi-Educa: Experiências e Reflexões sobre Cidadania Digital, Edições Lusófona
• 2020, O mundo emergente da Internet das Coisas e a gestão da privacidade/ The emerging world of the Internet of Things and the management of privacy, Crianças e Meios Digitais em Portugal - Resultados nacionais do inquérito EU Kids Online, Edições Almedina
• 2020, Metodologias DiCi-Educa/ Dici-Educa Methodologies, DiCi-Educa: Experiências e Reflexões sobre Cidadania Digital, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
• 2020, Jogar, empoderar, dialogar e refletir/ Playing, empowering, dialoguing and reflecting, DiCi-Educa: Experiências e Reflexões sobre Cidadania Digital, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
• 2020, Be careful with whom you speak to on the internet - Framing anxiety in parental mediation, through children's perspectives, "Discourses of anxiety about childhood and youth across cultures"
• 2019, Não há parentalidades perfeitas: caminhos e desafios do digital no dia a dia das famílias modernas/ There is no such thing as perfect parenting: ways and challenges of digital in the daily life of modern families, Crianças, famílias e tecnologias. Que desafios? Que caminhos?, CIED (Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos Educacionais) Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
• 2018, Ossos apareçam! Eu sou uma thinspiration!/ Bones come out! I am a thinspiration!, :testemunhos pró-ana de adolescents brasileiros e portugueses, Quixote+Do
• 2018, Mi hermano lo utiliza. Mis padres lo utilizan. Cualquiera de nosotros coge un Ipad y lo utiliza/ My brother uses it. My parents use it. Any one of us picks up an iPad and uses it., La influencia familiar en las actividades digitales de niños portugueses de 6-8 anos, Editorial Gedisa
• 2018, Educando entre ecrãs/ Educating among screens, ERC ¿ Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação
• 2017, Crescendo entre ecrãs: competências digitais de crianças de 3 a 8 anos, Atas do IV Congresso Media, Literacia e Cidadania, Universidade do Minho
• 2017, "É uma situação complicada": perspetivas de raparigas sobre interações mediadas pela tecnologia/ It's a complicated situation : girls' perspectives on technology-mediated interactions, Violências de Género
• 2015, Online Violence: Listening to Children's Online Experiences, Handbook of Research on Digital Crime, Cyberspace Security, and Information Assurance, IGI Global
• 2015, "I created a blog to enter this world" Online dangerous pro-anorexic contents produced and disseminated by children, Visual Stimulation: Shaping Teen Identities, Inter-disciplinary press
• 2013, "Fat and Happy? I'd Rather Die!" Online Violence Involving Children: Pro-Anorexia Communities and Dangerous Eating Behaviours on the Web, Skins, Visual Culture and Youth, Inter-Disciplinary Press

Edited book

• 2021, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
• 2020, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
• 2015, Inter-disciplinary press

Encyclopedia entry

• The networked effect of children and online digital technologies, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology

Report

• 2024-02, Literacias digitais de adolescentes portugueses
• 2023-12, YouNDigital: Relatório Survey - Task 3, https://drive.google.com/file/u/2/d/14_ec1kPXWhFyWCa1uN4MrIYIBgdj2_Zc/view?usp=sharing
• 2023-11, YouNDigital: End of Fieldwork , https://drive.google.com/file/d/15XwlVcO-68VwnOx1zLcD0lxRTdi3S5YQ/view
• 2023, YouNDigital - Relatório Revisão de Literatura PRISMA (fase 2), https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JodRcmcZXUm99Kj3rF6Mxg0lOELPq3NF/view
• 2022-06, YouNDigital ethical guidelines
• 2022, YouNDigital - Enquadramento teórico e futuras linhas de pesquisa/ YOUNDigital - Theoretical framework and future lines of research, https://youndigital.com/index.php/disseminacao/
• 2019, Relatório interino Dici-Educa
• 2019, Avaliação Julho 2019 - DiCi-Educa
• 2017, Family digital time: Understanding contexts, emergent literacies and mediation, http://digilitey.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Report_KU_Leuven__Website-1.pdf
• 2017, DigiLitEY Summer School 2017: Collaborative/Participatory Methodologies and the Digital Practices of Young Children - A Collective Report on the Summer Training and Workshops, http://digilitey.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Workshops-GroupReport-FinalSept2017.pdf
• 2017, CRESCENDO ENTRE ECRÃS: Usos de meios eletrónicos por crianças (3-8 Anos)/ GROWING BETWEEN SCREENS: Children's Uses of Electronic Media (3-8 Years Old), http://www.erc.pt/pt/estudos-e-publicacoes/consumos-de-media/estudo-crescendo-entre-ecras-usos-de-meios-eletronicos-por-criancas-3-8-anos

Manual

• 2018, O que farias tu?/ What would you do?, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas

Online resource

• 2023-02, How can non-academic audiences be involved in research findings?, https://yskills.eu/how-can-non-academic-audiences-be-involved-in-research-findings/
• 2023-02, Espelho meu: que mediação digital faço eu/ Mirror, mirror: what kind of digital mediation am I doing?, https://criaon.fcsh.unl.pt/artigo/espelho-meu-que-mediacao-digital-faco-eu/
• 2023-01, O NOSSO ACORDO DIGITAL/ Our family digital agreement, https://criaon.fcsh.unl.pt/recursos/
• 2022-07, Como responder às perguntas das crianças em situações de crise?/How do you answer children's questions in crisis situations?, https://criaon.fcsh.unl.pt/artigo/como-responder-as-perguntas-das-criancas-em-situacoes-de-crise/
• 2021, The Digital Surge during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Carrying out Ethnographic Interviews under Lockdown?, https://yskills.eu/the-digital-surge-during-the-covid-19/
• 2018, What is Google doing for my child's sexual education?, https://www.betterinternetforkids.eu/web/portal/practice/awareness/detail?articleId=3510125
• 2018, Portuguese families facing the challenges of screen time, http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2018/04/04/portuguese-families-facing-the-challenges-of-screen-time/

Conference paper

• Violência online em idade escolar - realidades, problemas e soluções: uma proposta de investigação/ Online violence in school age - realities, problems and solutions: a research proposal, CHALLENGES 2011 – Conferência Internacional de TIC na Educação: Perspectivas de Inovação
• SimSafety - simulador de navegação para a segurança na Internet : analisando a implementação de um projeto europeu em quatro escolas do norte de Portugal/ SimSafety - navigation simulator for internet safety : analysing the implementation of a European project in four schools in the north of Portugal, CHALLENGES 2011 – VII Conferência Internacional de TIC na Educação
• Crescendo entre ecrãs
• 2017, ICT and gender: Parental mediation strategies, International Symposium on Computers in Education
• 2016, MaisCidadania: recursos educativos digitais e cidadania participativa das crianças/ +Citizenship: digital educational resources and participatory citizenship for children, Criança, Cidade, Cidadania

Conference poster

• 2012, "Um dia quero ser leve como uma fada!" Contributo para a compreensão das caraterísticas dos discursos anoréticos na Web, no âmbito de um estudo sobre violência online em idade escolar¿/ One day I want to be as lightweight as a fairy! Contribution to the understanding of the characteristics of anorectic discourses on the Web, within the scope of a study on online violence in school age, A Crise da(s) Socializações¿

Research technique

• iTec Families board game, research tool to use with families, children, and young people on key topics around digital parenting, Internet of Things, screen time, Sharenting, Datafication, Digital privacy, Online gaming, Geolocalization, YouTubers and influencers along with other topics that are part of a balanced on/offline life, such as nature, healthy food, breathing techniques and exercise.