The Media Diversity Institute works internationally to encourage and facilitate responsible media coverage of diversity. It aims to prevent the media from intentionally or unintentionally spreading prejudice, intolerance and hatred which can lead to social tensions, disputes and violent conflict.
Children and the internet: a parent’s guide
Article from The Guardian, UK (Saturday 2 November 2013) Jamie Oliver has banned his children from social media – and in many families there is a constant battle between demands for privacy and safety. Here, parents share the lessons they have learned and the techniques they use. You can’t blame Jamie Oliver for being worried. […]
We have abandoned our children to the internet
Young people are addicted to a virtual world that is designed to keep them hooked with little care for collateral damage. A year ago I walked into my kitchen to find half a dozen teenagers there, each one engrossed with their own private screen in silence. I realised it had been months since I’d seen […]
Impact of Media & Digital Literacy on Citizenship in the Arab Region
Infusing digital and media literacy education into university curricula through providing the needed training.
Ofcom – Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report 2012
Our 2012 Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes report provides detailed evidence of media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 5-15. For the first time it also provides indicative information about the access to, and use of, media among children aged 3-4. Our report also includes findings relating to parents’ […]
Children’s Use of Online Technologies in Europe – 2013
Background The past decade of technological change has been accompanied by a decade of research seeking to understand the nature of these changes as they shape everyday life, tracing their social consequences within the home, for parents and children, for the peer group, at school, and in the wider society. A major conclusion in the […]
Media Literacy: Understanding Digital Capabilities – BBC
Objectives: -To understand the current ‘State of the Nation’ with regards to internet literacy. -To segment the online population based on internet literacy.
Adults’ media use and attitudes report 2013 – UK
UK adults are spending more time online There has been a significant increase in the self-reported volume of internet use since 2011. Overall estimated weekly volume of use of the internet among users has increased to an average of just under 17 hours per week (16.8 vs. 15.1 hours in 2011). Over half (53%) of […]
Everyday Racism and «My Tram Experience»: Emotion, Civic Performance and Learning on YouTube
Does the public expression and performance of shock, distress, anger, frustration and ideological disapproval of particular sorts of politics constitute a form of collective political expression from which individuals can learn about being citizens? When it comes to the expression of feelings of racial and other types of prejudice, has political correctness led to a […]
Interactive Youth: New Citizenship between Social Networks and School Settings
Interactive Youth: New Citizenship between Social Networks and School Settings
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