PLAY YOUR ROLE

PLAY YOUR ROLE PROJECT PARTICIPATES IN GULBENKIAN ACADEMIES FOR KNOWLEDGE 

On 31st May (Monday), the portuguese team of the Play Your Role project will participate in a session of the initiativeWorld Reading Academy: Journalism, Communication and Me” (Media, Culture and Technology), moderated by researcher Filipa Cerol (CIAC-UALG).

The motto of the session will be the presentation of the european project hosted by CIAC, Play your Role – Gamification Against Hate Speech, to a group of students from the middle school João de Deus, in Faro (Portugal). One of the project’s researchers, Susana Costa, will lead a workshop in which students will be able to try out some of the tools available on the playyourrole.eu platform, namely one of the serious games, created based on hate interactions present on the internet, in games and in virtual communities.

The World Reading Academy is part of a national network of Gulbenkian Academies for Knowledge, whose main aim is to create a space for promotion of competencies to understand the world and be aware and active in the society. Through an immersive experience in the media’s world, this Academy aims to provide to young people with ages between 14 and 25 years, tools to decode news, question the passive consumption of information and stimulate a critical and constructive attitude, appropriated to the challenges of the contemporary media culture.