Media Cloud is an open source platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, our suite of tools allows researchers to track how stories and ideas spread through media. Our tools are designed to aggregate, analyze, deliver and visualize information, answering complex quantitative and qualitative questions about the content of online […]
The 5 Principles of Ethical Journalism
The core principles of ethical journalism set out below provide an excellent base for everyone who aspires to launch themselves into the public information sphere to show responsibility in how they use information. There are hundreds of codes of conduct, charters and statements made by media and professional groups outlining the principles, values and obligations […]
The science of fake news
The rise of fake news highlights the erosion of long-standing institutional bulwarks against misinformation in the internet age. Concern over the problem is global. However, much remains unknown regarding the vulnerabilities of individuals, institutions, and society to manipulations by malicious actors. A new system of safeguards is needed. Below, we discuss extant social and computer […]
THE NEW MEDIA ENVIRONMENT
A classic text from the 1972. In the last few years, we have begun to see the earth from a different perspective –the perspective of the satellite. (…) When there is a transformation in the making of this symbolic environment, when there is a major change in the kind of symbol systems that we discharge […]
Creating a newswire for high school student reporting
After the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, student activism has exploded around gun control legislation in the United States. Mainstream news outlets are covering the story extensively as students mobilize across the country. What the country has not seen elevated in equal force is the student journalism on this vital topic. We’re building […]
How To Increase Empathy Towards Refugees? Serious Games Might Provide An Answer
Videogames and migration: to some, this might sound like an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. Games are fun. Migration, the kind we are used to discuss nowadays, the refugee kind, is anything but. It’s people sinking and dying while clumped in small ships; it’s families destroyed, part of them waiting for others to send a […]
Why journalists should warm up to newsgames
For many newsrooms, it’s open season for games. More and more journalists and game designers are coming together to create interactive stories that use “play” to engage readers in powerful ways, offering them the chance to explore, experiment and learn with news. “The power of games is the power of play,” says Lindsay Grace, an […]
The Journal of Media Literacy (Vol 64, Num 1&2)
Agency is knowledge in action. In media lit eracy, agency is the exercising of awareness through critical thinking skills to effect change personally, locally and/or globally.Agency is also a central dilemma of our evolving electronic environment . With power comes responsibility. As governments, corporations and individuals acquire increasing power over their own and others’ information, […]
The National Telemedia Council
The oldest ongoing media literacy organization in the United States, the National Telemedia Council [NTC] is a national non-profit organization that has been promoting the concept of media literacy since 1953. From the beginning, we have taken a positive, non-judgmental attitude and embraced a philosophy that values reflective judgment and cooperation rather than confrontation with […]
CIVIC MEDIA PRACTICE : Identification and Evaluation of Media and Technology That Facilitates Democratic Process
In a context of increasing distrust in institutions, including government, media and news, there is need to understand how civic innovators are using media and technology to counter these trends. Based on over 40 interviews with practitioners, this report identifies “civic media practice” as media and technology used to facilitate democratic process. It focuses specifically […]
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