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How false news can spread

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy

In previous decades, most news with global reach came from several major newspapers and networks with the resources to gather information directly. The speed with which information spreads now, however, has created the ideal conditions for something called circular reporting. on a TEDed Noah Tavlin sheds light on this phenomenon. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSKGa_7XJkgAuthor: Noah TavlinSource: TED-Ed

 

What Markets Don’t Do

, Filed Under: Media Education Policy

Nicholas Negroponte (Co-founder, MIT Media Lab) Keynote speech at VIVA TECHNOLOGY PARIS 2017 Conference. Homepage Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn29slfvHvk&sns=emAuthor: Nicholas NegroponteSource: VIVA TECHNOLOGY

 

Media and Information Literacy: Educational Strategies for the Prevention of Violent Extremism

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy, Media Education Policy

Videos of the presentations of the panel Media and Information Literacy: Educational Strategies for the Prevention of Violent Extremism United Nations Headquarters in New York February 10, 2017 UNAOC’s Media and Information Literacy program and United Nations Academic Impact’s “Unlearning Intolerance” program have organized this side event as part of UNAI’s “Prevention Forum” discussion series. […]

 

Capacity Building in a Changing ICT Environment

, Filed Under: Media Education Policy

This issue of “Capacity Building in a Changing ICT Environment” was prepared by the Human Capacity Building Division (HCB) within the Projects and Knowledge Management Department of the Telecommunication Development Bureau of ITU. The work was carried out under the overall direction of Cosmas Zavazava, Chief of Department, with a team comprised of Susan Teltscher, […]

 

Digital Media, Transformative Education and Democratic Praxis (new book: Call for articles)

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy, Media Education Policy, Youth Media

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (deadline: September 1, 2017) More information, please go to link New digital communication technologies offer great promise as tools, platforms and spaces for the cultivation of empowering, liberatory educational practices as well as for the development and circulation of diverse and counter-hegemonic perspectives. These same technologies have provoked a terrific amount of […]

 

The Journal of Media Literacy (July 2017)

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy, Media Education Policy

Neil Andersen and Carol Arcus of The Association for Media Literacy are proud to have been the guest editors of the Agency issue of The Journal of Media Literacy. We chose Agency as the issue’s theme because there is ongoing debate over how users can exercise agency within environments comprised of big data, multinational media […]

 

AlfaMed

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy, Media Education Policy

AlfaMed es una red interuniversitaria euroamericana de investigación sobre competencias mediáticas para la ciudadanía que reúne a más de 50 investigadores de 13 países europeos y latinoamericanos, cuyo objetivo es propiciar espacios de fortalecimiento para actividades académicas, de investigación, de extensión, producción y difusión sobre la “educación en medios”. Contact Email: https://www.redalfamed.org/contactoWebsite: https://www.redalfamed.org/

 

AlfaMed

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy, Media Education Policy

AlfaMed es una red interuniversitaria euroamericana de investigación sobre competencias mediáticas para la ciudadanía que reúne a más de 50 investigadores de 13 países europeos y latinoamericanos, cuyo objetivo es propiciar espacios de fortalecimiento para actividades académicas, de investigación, de extensión, producción y difusión sobre la “educación en medios”. Link: https://www.redalfamed.org/Source: AlfaMed