Biography

Borbála Timár is an expert on digital child protection and she is also a media trainer. She was a secondary school Hungarian and media teacher, and she has been involved in media education since 2005. She has developed a number of educational materials on media literacy, trained teachers, held workshops for children and parents, and written professional background material, initially independently from 2011, and then as a civil servant from 2019. She continues to work in this field. Her work includes keeping abreast of the literature and trends in the field, and speaking at various conferences. A number of years ago, she realised that traditional ways of teaching media literacy were no longer capable of responding to many of the issues in the changing digital media environment, which is why she turned to research. The concept of digital well-being, which she chose as the topic of her doctoral research, frames both individual and social aspects, as well as the perspectives and needs of various stakeholders (users and designers), thus opening new perspectives on approaching the subject.

Academic publications:
Németh, Sz., Timár, B. (2023), “Digital Child Protection Profiles of 12 to 14 Year-Olds – Experiences of Testing a Diagnostic Measurement Instrument”, in András Buda, György Molnár (ed.), Oktatás – Informatika – Pedagógia 2023: Tanulmánykötet (Debrecen: Debreceni Egyetem BTK Nevelés- és Művelődéstudományi Intézet), pp. 75–102.
Timár, B. (2022), “Action Research to Understand and Empower Children Growing up in Foster Care in Hungary” 
https://ic4ml.org/journal-article/action-research-to-understand-and-empower-children-growing-up-in-foster-care-in-hungary/.
Jakab, G., Németh, S., Patai, R., Timár, B. (2022), “Digital Media Use Profiles of Young People Living in Foster Homes”, Iskolakultúra: pedagógusok szakmai-tudományos folyóirata, 32(3), 44–69,  https://doi.org/10.14232/ISKKULT.2022.3.44. 
Jakab, G., Németh, S., Patai, R., Timár, B., Bethlenfalvy, Á. (2022), “Online Risk Exposure and Digital Media Use among Young People in Child Protection”, Iskolakultúra: pedagógusok szakmai-tudományos folyóirata, 32(3), 13–30, https://doi.org/10.14232/ISKKULT.2022.3.13. 
Jakab, G., Németh, S., Patai, R., Timár, B., Bethlenfalvy, Á., Rajnai, R., Szijártó, Z. (2022), “Action Research on Media Use and Digital Profiling of Young People in Child Protection”, Iskolakultúra: pedagógusok szakmai-tudományos folyóirata, 32(3), 3–12. https://doi.org/10.14232/ISKKULT.2022.3.3. 
Timár, B. (2019), “Methodology of Media Education – Critical Thinking and Disinformation”, in A kommunikáció oktatása 11, 111–120, 
http://komnev.hu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Tudatossag-11..pdf#page=116. 
Timár, B. (2018), “Mobile literacy – Teaching Mobile Device Awareness in Primary Schools”, in A média hatása a gyermekekre és fiatalokra IX, 122.
Timár, B. (2017), “With or from Mobiles – Media Literacy in Mobile Device-enhanced Education”, in Mobil – Világ – Iskola: Válogatott tanulmányok az I. Mobil eszközök az oktatásban konferenciáról, 185–192.
Timár, B. (2016b), “Media Literacy Education in the Digital Age”, Oktatás – Informatika, 2016/1, 4–17.
Timár, B. (2016a), “Media Education, Media Experience – Awareness in Media Use”, in A gyermekkultúra jelen(tőség)e, 259–271.