'Children can not know anything': peripheral children and news consumption

peripheral children and news consumption

Abstract

Based on interviews with boys and girls of lower income and with ages between 10 and 12 years, residents of the peripheral neighborhood, Jardim Orion, south zone of São Paulo, this work sought to understand how the consumption of news reports by especially on the Internet and digital media. We understand that, as other works in the area show, children are aware of what journalistic news is and that their journalistic consumption is first made on television, although they use the network frequently. We can also see that sensationalist journalism is present in the lives of children living on the periphery more intensely than in the higher classes, and this has become a reference for them in the news.