In the latest post in our Alternative Internet(s) series, Argyro Karanasiou, Lecturer in IT & Media Law for the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (CIPPM) at Bournemouth University argues that policymakers must embrace decentralised Internet architectures as a way of breaking online informational monopolies.
Children’s online behaviour: issues of risk and trust
Research conducted by Sherbert Research for Ofcom examined how children think about and deal with issues of risk and trust online. Ofcom has a statutory duty to promote media literacy, including among children. Ofcom conducts regular research on how children use communications services. To date, there has been little in-depth research on how children navigate […]
Children’s changing online experiences in a longitudinal perspective
This article is an analytic reflection on social and technological change. It shows that: – Internet diffusion is linked to specific patterns of uses and experiences. On average, children in “advanced” countries go online earlier, use a broader range of online services, are more skilled in safer internet and, nevertheless, are more at risk. – […]
SchoolsWorld.tv, a new learning platform
SchoolsWorld is a brand-new, multimedia platform, providing innovative and informative content for everyone involved with or wanting to be involved in schools. Besides all the content from Teachers TV, there is something for everyone: videos, interactive games, work sheets, fact sheets, information and latest education news. There’s also opportunity to get involved in great competitions […]
Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report 2014
This report examines children’s media literacy. It provides detailed evidence on media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 5-15, as well as detailed information about the media access and use of young children aged 3-4. The report also includes findings relating to parents’ views about their children’s media use, and the […]
If Facebook can tweak our emotions and make us vote, what else can it do?
Around the time of the Indian election in May, a badly-headlined story began spreading which asked “Did Google affect the outcome of the Indian election?” The answer was no, it hadn’t. But beneath the headline was an iceberg. A non-peer-reviewed study, not carried out by anyone affiliated with Google, looked at the effects on undecided […]
Changing the World with Media Literacy: the UNESCO Forum and Declaration
LSE’s Sonia Livingstone and Bournemouth University’s Julian McDougall share some of the challenges and outcomes of the recent UNESCO Media and Information Literacy forum and question how we advocate for truly critical media literacy education in the current political environment. Researchers, educators and a broad range of stakeholders met in Paris at the first UNESCO […]
Voices of Media Literacy: International Pioneers Speak
Voices of Media Literacy is a collection of interviews that were conducted in 2010-2011 with 20 media literacy pioneers who were active in the field prior to 1990. These pioneers represent the English-speaking countries of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and the United States. Their views not only shed light on the development of media […]
Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes in the Nations
The purpose of Children and parents: Media use and attitudes 2013, is to provide a single home for a number of key media metrics relating to parents and children in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, as well as across the UK. It is designed to be a reference document for our stakeholders. It provides […]
Links to the past: a history of the world wide web – timeline
As Tim Berners-Lee calls for an online bill of rights, see: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/12/online-magna-carta-berners-lee-web Sean Clarke summarises the web’s major developments since 1989
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