This paper presents some of the main results of a study conducted with teens from Portugal, Spain and Italy in the scope of the European project Transmedia Literacy. It analyses the media uses and production practices of teenagers aged 12-19 years. The results show that teenagers use the media very regularly but few have complex production and participation practices aimed at an audience other than their peers.Este artículo presenta algunos de los principales resultados de un estudio realizado con adolescentes de Portugal, España e Italia dentro del proyecto europeo Transmedia Literacy. Analiza los usos de los medios y las prácticas de producción de los adolescentes entre los 12 y 19 años. Los resultados muestran que los adolescentes usan muy a menudo los medios pero pocos tienen prácticas complejas de producción y participación dirigidas a un público diferente al de sus pares.

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Transmedia teens: the creative transmedia skills of Italian studentsThe objective of this article is to analyse the extent of creativity and autonomy of Italian teenagers' digital media practices and to link it to the new transmedia skills developed within their favourite digital environments (social media, video games, participatory cultures). The data studied emerged from the Transmedia Literacy project (European Commission-Horizon 2020) which involved eight countries from three continents: Spain, Australia, Colombia, Finland, Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay. Through the analysis of information gathered with multiple methodologies (survey, in-depth interviews, workshops and media diaries), the article explores both the consuming and producing media practices of Italian teenagers and the ways in which they are connected with emerging transmedia skills (Guerrero-Pico, Masanet, & Scolari, 2019;Scolari, 2018aScolari, , 2018b. The data shows that Italian teenagers may still be considered quite traditional media users: their creative participation is limited and often they merely imitate or remix others' works, acting as "functional prosumers" rather than "critical prosumers" (Chen, Wu, & Wang, 2011). The outcome of the research reveals teenagers' meta-reflexive approach to media, an approach that seems to regulate and restrict their attitude towards creating and, above all, exposing their own creativity online. At the same time, teens demonstrate the acquisition of new and creative skills related, in particular, to the mechanisms of media industry and self-management.

Abstract:The paper's aim is to explore, through an empirical, qualitative research (focus groups conducted in Turin with preadolescents, adolescents and university students) if web 2.0 can constitute a suitable environment for discussing, sharing and elaborating historical public events and contemporary issues. The research states that web 2.0 is not really decisive for sharing practices related to memory. Web 2.0 is rather a place where people can talk about everyday lives. Most important are, instead, the traditional off line agencies, such as family and peer group.From the point of view of young people interviewed, media elaborate and give relevance to events that should not have so much relevance. Young people's memory though, doesn't have any specific features -it's not specialized -; it seems to be aligned to the global and mediatized representation of a recent past.

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