Purpose: The credibility of digital news is presently a topic of debate, and curricula underline the importance of media literacy. However, the content and credibility of young people’s news feeds have not been investigated in detail in any large-scale studies. Here we explore the nature of news featured in Swedish upper secondary school students’ news […]
Educating for democracy? : The role of media and information literacy education for pupils in Swedish compulsory school
This paper reports a study of pupils’ experiences of media and information literacy education in five Swedish schools by answering the following overarching question, what roles do the teaching of information seeking and critical assessment of information play for pupils in their school-work as well as in their everyday life? Pupils in ninth grade were […]
Understanding Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in the Digital Age. A Question of Democracy
Many of the social issues of today have to do with digitization and, not least, the ongoing transformation of the media and communication culture. We are now at a point that may be described as ‘the end of the digital beginning’. Following a period of optimism about the potentialities offered by the internet – especially […]
Media Literacy and the Emerging Media Citizen in the Nordic Media Welfare State
Since the 1960s, there has been a thriving Nordic tradition of media literacy research, pedagogics, and policy on how to best prepare the emerging media citizen for an increasingly mediatised society. Although the Nordic model of media literacy has previously been characterised by connections to Bildung, critical theory, cultural studies, and progressive pedagogics, much of […]
Online hate speech legislation in the Nordic countries
Online hate speech targets both women and men. However, men are more likely to fall victim to attacks involving threats of violence and references to their profession and competence, whereas women are more likely to experience sexist and sexually charged offences. Still, the legal protection for victims of gender-based hate speech is non-existent. This is […]
NORDICOM (Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research)
NORDICOM is a knowledge centre in the field of media and communication research, a cooperation between the five countries of the Nordic region – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Starting from academic research, Nordicom collects and adapts knowledge, mediating it to various user groups in the Nordic region, Europe and elsewhere in the world.
Pro-violence and anti-democratic messages on the Internet
This study concerns how the Internet and social media are used to promote anti-democratic messages aimed at young persons that encourage the use of violence for a political or ideological cause, and how to equip young persons to resist such messages. The study examines how Swedish right-wing extremists, left-wing extremists and militant jihadists use the […]
Youth Have Their Say on Internet Governance
Nordic Youth Forum at EurodiG Stockholm June 2012 The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was created at the World Summit on Information Society in Tunis in 2005 in response to calls for an international platform where public policy issues relating to the Internet might be discussed. The Summit asked Secretary General Kofi Annan to summon such […]
Barn och unga i den digitala mediekulturen (Swedish)
I boken ingår ett antal artiklar av välrenommerade forskare som belyser olika frågeställningar om barn och ungas mediekultur i det digitala medielandskapet – om de möjligheter och risker som internet innefattar. Bokens andra del presenterar hörnstenarna i den upplevelsebaserade konferensen ’Digital turist för en dag’. En översikt som redovisar statistik rörande de ungas medievanor i […]
Regulation, Awareness, Empowerment – Young People and Harmful Media Content in the Digital Age
In 2005 UNESCO asked the International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media to prepare a publication on ‘Efforts and Innovative Approaches to Reduce Violence in Electronic and Digital Media’. This volume presents the results of the work the Clearinghouse has done in response to that request. Violence is no longer an adequate heading; today, terms […]
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