Reasons and circumstances that lead to the non-use of media by young people and their families

• Brites, Maria José ^[1] ; Ponte, Cristina ^[2]
  1. [1] Faculdade de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação, Universidade Lusófona do Porto
  2. [2] Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH)
• Localización: Comunicação e Sociedade, ISSN-e 2183-3575, ISSN 1645-2089, Nº. 34, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Os Estudos Lusófonos e as Ciências da Comunicação), págs. 411-429
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article argues for the need to pay attention to the dynamics of refusing and rejecting the use of media to better understand a highly mediatized consumer society. The theoretical background utilizes resistance to the media, family contexts of socialisation and mediated society. We analysed 18 interviews carried out in Portugal – undertaken as part of wider research project involving 40 young people and their families, on their relationship with the media regarding citizenship rights –, which showed signs of non-use of media. This article characterises these individuals, their contexts and motives. Through identifying refusal of the internet, social networks, news and television, we arrive at distinct five types: “I do not like and I do not want to use”; “At this stage of life, no!”; “Split between I can’t have and I can’t buy it”; “I don’t want to draw attention to myself and don’t want to get ‘hooked’”; and “Doing something different and doing it better”.