@article{Brites_Ponte_2018, title={Reasons and circumstances that lead to the non-use of media by young people and their families}, volume={34}, url={https://revistacomsoc.pt/index.php/revistacomsoc/article/view/758}, DOI={10.17231/comsoc.34(2018).2956}, abstractNote={<p>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”.</p>}, journal={Comunicação e Sociedade}, author={Brites, Maria José and Ponte, Cristina}, year={2018}, month={Dez.}, pages={411–429} }