Entre o Tempo Livre e a Educação: Considerações sobre Juventude, Mídias e Lazer

This essay reflects about the relationships between youth, media and leisure, seeking to identify the main training demands arising from this relationship, as well as to present some of the answers given to them. The relevance of the media in the field of leisure is old and goes back to a not so recent past in which mass media such as TV occupied a significant part of the free time of the masses. With the rise of digital media, new information resources are emerging, whose potentialities have been widely recognized and disseminated. In this sense, the appropriations of young people are the object of intense debates, sometimes for the originality and avant-gardism presented by  them, or for the determinist and essentialist discourses that have hidden their contradictions and insufficiencies.