Recently, my two-year-old nephew Benjamin came across a copy of Vanity Fair abandoned on the floor. His eyes scanned the glossy cover, which shone less fiercely than the iPad he is used to but had a faint luster of its own. I watched his pudgy thumb and index finger pinch together and spread apart on […]
Conversations Across Cultures: Youth Media Visions
Youth Media Visions is intended to be a useful resource for people interested in exploring the intersection of youth media, education and creation. It presents seven experiences developed by educators, social activists and media creators, who within their organizations work along with young people and media production. This book is the result of Conversations Across […]
Tech use, abuse, attitudes in Young Adult Fiction
Ignite Presentation for LSC531 at URI Summer Session 2014
Five Minutes with Judith Donath (MIT)
MIT Press_ Our latest “Five Minutes with the Author” is with Judith Donath who is a Faculty Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and a Visiting Scholar at MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and author of The Social Machine.
Build Peace 2014 (reflections)
Members of the Build Peace community reflect on the conference and on their experiences using technology to build peace. Over 250 people from more than 30 countries attended Build Peace 2014. Participants came from national and international NGOs, the UN system, academic institutions and the private sector. The conference had four broad lines of inquiry, […]
Social Media Literacy: The Five Key Concepts
Online digital technology has empowered users in ways that were unimaginable twenty years ago. Social media sites have given us the ability to reach a global audience, and have increased the average user’s means to persuade and influence. We are no longer just consumers of media, but content creators and distributors, as well as editors, […]
Study shows effectiveness of mobile phones in promoting reading and literacy in developing countries
UNESCO has published a report explaining how mobile technology is used to facilitate reading and improve literacy in developing countries. The report, Reading in the Mobile Era, highlights that hundreds of thousands of people currently use mobile technology as a portal to text. Findings show that in countries where illiteracy rates are high and physical […]
Journal of Media Literacy Education
The Journal of Media Literacy Education (JMLE.org) is an online interdisciplinary journal that supports the development of research, scholarship and the pedagogy of media literacy education. The journal provides a forum for established and emerging scholars, media professionals and educational practitioners in and out of schools. As an extended conceptualization of literacy, media literacy education […]
Generation Like (FRONTLINE)
Whether they’re getting retweeted by members of One Direction, or liking the Hunger Games Facebook page for a chance to be included in the movie’s credits, today’s teens are directly interacting with pop culture — celebrities, movies, music, and, increasingly, brands — in ways never before possible. Tweet pictures of yourself at a Lady Gaga […]
Fact-checking tools and resources for PR to use in content
The state of the media has opened opportunities for PR practitioners to place stories directly into mainstream news. As Conan O’Brien demonstrated on his show, more journalists are “ripping and reading” news releases word-for-word as a result of smaller newsroom budgets and fewer journalists and original stories. We’ve urged PR pros to use this opportunity […]
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