When comparing media freedom in Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand, so-called “fake news” appears as threats to a deliberative (online) public sphere in these three diverse contexts. However, “racist propaganda”, “information operations” and “negative campaigning” might be more accurate terms that explain these forms of systematic manipulative political communication. The three cases show forms of disinformation […]
Media and Information Literacy: A human rights-based approach in developing countries
Media and Information Literacy (MIL), defined as the ability to access, analyze, and create media, is a prerequisite for citizens to realize their rights to freedom of information and expression. A rights-based approach is pursued to define MIL in general, and Digital Media and Information Literacy (DMIL) in particular. Different projects initiated by DW Akademie […]
MIL unchained from DW Akademie
Recently, Media and Information Literacy went from niche to center stage in media development focusing on topics such as radicalization or disinformation. Here, four experts take on the issue in a question chain format. In the #mediadev question chain, experts share their thoughts on a specific issue by answering to a question put forward by […]
Kompetenzen in einer digital geprägten Kultur: Medienbildung für die Persönlichkeitsentwicklung, für die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe und für die Entwicklung von Ausbildungs- und Erwerbsfähigkeit
Angesichts einer sich rasant verändernden Welt wird eigenständiges lebensbegleitendes Lernen zunehmend zur Voraussetzung für gesellschaft liche Teilhabe und Beschäftigungsfähigkeit. Mit den Digitalen Medien entwickeln sich neue Lern und Arbeitsformen, die die traditionellen Qualifizierungs und damit Bildungsprozesse immer stärker verändern. Neue Dienste und Inhalte aus dem Internet verändern unsere Lebenswelten nachhaltig und prägen unsere gesellschaftliche und […]
Medien anwenden und produzieren – Entwicklung von Medienkompetenz in der Berufsausbildung
Medienkompetenz in der Berufsausbildung ist nicht länger als eindimensionales, rein technikdeterminiertes Konstrukt zu verstehen. Die Autoren entwickeln eine mehrdimensionale Definition von Medienkompetenz, die neben der Mediennutzung systematisch auch die Dimensionen der Zusammenarbeit, der Kommunikation, des Lernens sowie der rechtlichen, ethischen und ökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen bei der Arbeit mit Medien einbezieht. Welche dieser Aspekte von Medienkompetenz erwarten […]
Media and Information Literacy (DW Akademie)
Media and Information Literacy (MIL), defined as the ability to access, analyze, and create media, is a prerequisite for citizens to realize their rights to freedom of information and expression. A rights-based approach is pursued to define MIL in general, and Digital Media and Information Literacy (DMIL) in particular. Different projects initiated by DW Akademie […]
ELINET Association
The ELINET Association is a non-profit association, in which all literacy professionals (researchers, practitioners and policy makers) will be able to network internationally. The ELINET Association offers individual and institutional membership and, in addition to the General Assembly and the Executive Committee, did set up six Thematic Working Groups (TWGs) around the following topics: Early […]
Gesellschaft für Medienpädagogik und Kommunikationskultur (CMK)
The Association for Media Education and Communication Culture (German: GMK) is a nationwide professional association for education, culture, and media. It stands for the advancement of media education and media competency. The GMK is also active in Switzerland and Austria. The association brings interested and engaged people from sciences and practice together, and ensures the […]
Model for Successful Media Education
For German version, please visit: http://www2.mediamanual.at/themen/practice/mmt_21_modell_medienbildung.pdf Taking the general motto “media skills are identical with the ability to think critically” (Joseph Weizenbaum) the best media projects by European schools have been honoured since the school year 2001/02 with a media literacy award [mla]. Every year up to four hundred projects are submitted, around 90% of […]
Ten years of media education course in Slovenia
There has been a growing scholarly interest in the concept of media, citizenship, and education in the era of globalization (Hall 1999), especially in the context of the expansion of the European Union. Following the above, Slovenia was among the first post-socialist countries of Central-Eastern Europe that introduced and implemented a Media Education course into […]
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