Dr.  Lídia  Oliveira
University of Aveiro,  Portugal

Title: The new challenges of education in the era of digital culture: screen time and artificial intelligence

Abstract:

Children and young people are daily challenged by digital technologies that attract and steal their attention. They spend many hours a day on endless scrolling through social media and online games. This scenario, in which children and young people are sedated by screens, without developing their abilities to connect with space and the people around them, poses a significant challenge for parents and schools. Recently, with the availability of artificial intelligence-based systems like ChatGPT, new challenges are presented to teachers. After all, what skills should families and schools foster in children and young people? This will be the guiding question of the lecture.

Biography:

Lídia Oliveira (lidia@ua.pt) holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Coimbra (1990), a master’s degree in Educational Technology from the University of Aveiro, in partnership with the University of Valenciennes (France) and Mons (Belgium) (1995), and a PhD in Communication Sciences and Technologies (University of Aveiro, 2002).

In 2009-2019 she carried out a post-doctorate at CES – Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra; in 2010 she obtained the degree of Aggregation in Communication Sciences and Technologies; in 2013-2014 she carried out Post-Doctorate/visiting researcher at the Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain, from the École Des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris. In 2021-2024 degree in Psychology (in progress, 132 ECTS completed) at the University of Coimbra-Portugal.

In 2020-2021 she was a Fellow at Fundación Carolina (https://www.fundacioncarolina.es), at the Instituto de Cultura y Tecnologia – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and in 2023 she was a Fellow at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

She is Editor of the Journal of Digital Media & Interaction (https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/jdmi). And, she is Coordinator of the Digital Media Observatory, of the Digital Media & Interaction Research Center of the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Her research focuses on individual, collective and institutional behavior on the internet. the areas of interest are social network analysis, cyberculture studies, cultural heritage and new media, sociology of communication, science and technologies of communication, ICT and education, multimedia, information systems, digital libraries, science communication, communication in the scientific community (theoretical and empirical studies). Her publications and the projects in which she has been involved as a responsible researcher or team member can be consulted at ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3278-0326, Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?hl=pt-PT&user=LHoxd0QAAAAJ, Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=54581462800  and ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lidia_Oliveira_Silva/