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Acting as facilitators of focus groups composed of older participants, exploring intergenerational and intragenerational differences and similarities that emerge from different age cohorts, and critically reflecting on this experience on their individual essays, students were able to build a contextual knowledge of media uses among their grandparents\u2019 and parents\u2019 generation in Portugal. The choice of focus groups as a tool for research and the topic of generations to be investigated within Media Studies proved to be very productive. The article argues on the potentialities of this intergenerational relation between facilitator and focus groups\u2019 respondents as a way of activating the interactions inside the groups, leading \u2013for instance\u2013 the participants to assume an \u00abexplaining\u00bb attitude in selfaccounting. Final notes are presented about the educational gains of this methodology for Media Education and for different branches of Media Studies, such as media and social history, journalism and the news or political participation.<\/jats:p><jats:p>A partir de orientaciones te\u00f3ricas y metodol\u00f3gicas previas sobre medios de comunicaci\u00f3n y generaciones, este art\u00edculo presenta un proceso de investigaci\u00f3n y aprendizaje a partir de la supervisi\u00f3n del trabajo de campo desempe\u00f1ado por estudiantes licenciados en el Seminario del M\u00e1ster en Medios de Comunicaci\u00f3n en la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nueva de Lisboa. Los estudiantes implicados lograron construir conocimiento contextual sobre el uso de los medios en la generaci\u00f3n de sus abuelos y en la de sus padres en Portugal, actuando como facilitadores en los grupos de discusi\u00f3n, formados siempre por participantes de mayor edad, explorando las diferencias y similitudes intrageneracionales que emergen en grupos de diferente edad y llevando a cabo una reflexi\u00f3n cr\u00edtica sobre la experiencia en sus informes individuales. La elecci\u00f3n de los grupos de discusi\u00f3n como herramienta para la investigaci\u00f3n y la elecci\u00f3n del tema en el marco del Estudio de los Medios de Comunicaci\u00f3n result\u00f3 muy eficaz. Este art\u00edculo pretende defender la potencialidad de esta relaci\u00f3n intergeneracional entre los facilitadores y los miembros de los grupos de discusi\u00f3n como forma de activar la interacci\u00f3n entre grupos, permitiendo, por ejemplo, que los participantes asuman una actitud explicativa para consigo mismos. Las notas finales que se presentan contemplan las ventajas de esta metodolog\u00eda para la Educaci\u00f3n en Medios y para diferentes ramas del Estudio de los Medios, como la historia de los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n e historia social, el periodismo o la participaci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3916\/c41-2013-16","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,30]],"date-time":"2013-05-30T12:55:59Z","timestamp":1369918559000},"page":"167-176","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3916\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Connecting generations. 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