Media & Learning Association newsletter, February 2018. Topics include: New report on Digital Education Policies Media in Action project kicks off to a good start Journalists and schools working together on media literacy in Czech Republic Mapping student engagement with 360 degree video content through user-annotations and analytic visualisations Link: https://media-and-learning.eu/files/newsletter/Media-and-Learning-News_2018-02.pdfAuthor: Media & Learning AssociationSource: […]
Digital literacy, fake news and education (call for papers)
The deadline for submission is 30 May 2018. The 2017 COST report on Digital Literacy and Education addressed, across Europe, a set of fundamental questions: A revolution is going on at the very moment you read these words and you are repeatedly participating in it every time you log in. As with every revolution, the […]
Automatic for the peaceful
There is a growing body of research showing how the tools and structure of online communications are often damaging to peace. This is in part driven by people and groups pushing to spread hate and drown out inconvenient truths, many of whom have refined aggressive tools and approaches leveraging social media bots to strategically take […]
World Press Freedom Day 2018 Academic Conference: Call for Papers
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February, 2018 Academic conference: 3 May, 2018 Policy Lab: 4 May, 2018 — On a daily basis, journalists around the globe are confronted with a variety of threats that range from harassment to arbitrary detention, kidnapping, physical attacks, and in the most extreme cases, killing. UNESCO reports that in the past […]
Peacebuilding in the Age of New Media
Media and Communication is an international open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of basic and applied research in communication and its related fields. It aims at providing a research forum on the social and cultural relevance of media and communication processes. Media and Communication is concerned with the social development and contemporary transformation […]
The trouble with fighting fakes with facts
In theory, it is the perfect solution. If platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter have allowed disinformation to flood our screens and alter our minds, make them mop up the mess with their own clever IT. Add to this an army of truth-seeking fact-checkers from renowned news organisations to straighten the record – no, […]
Global Kids Online
Global Kids Online has been gathering new evidence on children’s online opportunities and risks via representative surveys in the Philippines, Uruguay, and Ghana. This adds to the existing database from seven other countries. Members of the network are also working on maximising the research impact with countries focusing on digital literacy (Bulgaria), influencing law and […]
Public consultation on fake news and online disinformation
This public consultation will help assess the effectiveness of current actions by market players and other stakeholders, the need for scaling them up and introducing new actions to address different types of fake news. The consultation will collect information on: Definition of fake information and their spread online Assessment of measures already taken by platforms, […]
فرص جديدة للتربية الإعلامية والمعلوماتية في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا
مقدمة يشكّل هذا الكتاب ثمرة من ثمار سلسلة ورش العمل لتدريب المدرّسين في مجال التربية الإعلامية والمعلوماتية التي شارك برنامج الأمم المتحدة لتحالف الحضارات بتنظيمها خلال عام 2013 و 2014 في فاس بالمغرب والقاهرة بمصر. (1) وقد أدرك برنامج الأمم المتحدة لتحالف الحضارات منذ وقت مبكر الأهمية القصوى للتربية الإعلامية والمعلوماتية في بناء مجتمعات سلمية، […]
The Post-Truth Threat to Democracy: How to Deal with the New Media Landscape?
Video on YouTube of the panel during the Evens Foundation conference “Media Meets Literacy in Sarajevo” (September 2017) Panel debate addressing keynote speeches, followed by Q&A. Post-truth… waves of disinformation and propaganda … how do we deal with the new media landscape? What competencies, tools and initiatives do we need? How can we best teach […]
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