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Media and Information Literacy Regional Conference in Qatar
Media and Information Literacy Regional Conference in Qatar The Doha Center for Media Freedom (DCMF ) with the support of the UNAOC, UNESCO and other organizations, organized an expert meeting on Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in Doha, Qatar, on 11-13 June 2013. The meeting convened governmental representatives from Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Egypt, and Morocco, in addition to participants from Europe and East Asia. The 3-day conference focused on best practices and the global framework on MIL, specifically identifying challenges…
Find out more »Mirrors or Movers? – A Debate About the Social Impact of Media
Does media content, in all its forms, merely mirror society or does it move it? The media sector is different from other industries because its key impacts on society are intellectual and social, not operational, for example: – A TV broadcaster can cut its carbon emissions by a few tonnes but what is the impact of its programming on viewers’ carbon emissions? – An advertiser can promote gender equality amongst its employees but what messages do its adverts send to their audience?…
Find out more »MILID Summer School Barcelona 2013
El First International Meeting of the Young Journalists’ Network es un espacio de intercambio académico creado por el Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación de la UAB. Su finalidad es otorgar espacios de encuentro y trabajo grupal para el desarrollo de los proyectos con la colaboración de periodistas de todo el mundo. Las escuelas de verano son espacios de intercambio de proyectos y de configuración de redes futuras de trabajo colaborativo. El First International Meeting of the Young Journalists’ Network constituye por sí misma una…
Find out more »International Society for Technology in Education’s 34th Annual Conference and Exposition
ISTE’s 34th Annual Conference and Exposition features an amazing array of professional learning and collaborative networking opportunities. Our community will focus on sharing, learning and discovering the best ways to prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s challenges. We hope you’ll participate in as many conference activities—formal and informal—as possible. You will find: •Inspiring and provocative keynotes •Over 800 concurrent sessions chosen from more than 2,300 submissions (with dozens at every given time slot) •Scores of interactive options including poster sessions, playgrounds,…
Find out more »IMCAR 2013 Conference Call for Papers
The MER - Media Education Research Section - warmly accepts paper submissions for the next IAMCR conference to be held at the Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, from 25 to 29 June, 2013. "Crises, 'Creative Destruction' and the Global Power and Communication Orders" is the overarching theme proposed to participants, which may be taken into account, when deciding the paper to present. The proposals may involve both individual papers and collective panels.
Find out more »Global Forum for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy to take place next year in Nigeria
GFPMIL will not be another academic meeting but a more focused and permanent mechanism aimed at: articulating concrete partnerships to drive MIL development and impact globally; enabling the MIL community to speak as one voice on certain critical matters, particularly as it relates to policies; further deepening the strategy for MIL to be treated as a composite concept by providing a common platform for MIL related networks and associations globally.
Find out more »Global Forum for Partnership on MIL (GFPMIL) 2013
UNESCO has been working for over 40 years in the field of media and information literacy (MIL). Part of its strategy involves creating partnerships necessary to amplify the impact of MIL. To this end, UNESCO will launch the Global Forum for Partnership on MIL (GFPMIL), which will be held from 26 to 28 June 2013 at Nicon Luxury Hotel, in Abuja, Nigeria, under the theme “Promoting Media and Information Literacy as a Means to Cultural Diversity”. This initiative is a…
Find out more »Seminario web Guerra y Paz en Centroamérica: aprendizajes para la cobertura periodística
Las negociaciones que se llevaron a cabo en El Salvador y que terminaron con la firma del acuerdo de paz de Chapultepec en 1992 y las conversaciones que se desarrollaron en Guatemala, que terminaron con un acuerdo firmado en 1996, son probablemente los ejemplos más cercanos y recientes que tiene América Latina de países que han logrado conseguir una salida negociada a un violento y largo conflicto interno. La reconocida periodista mexicana Blanche Petrich, quien cubrió de manera muy cercana…
Find out more »Call For Entries – 2nd International Short Film Festival “Short Form”
CALL FOR ENTRIES ARE OPENED FOR 2013 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 01st July 2013 Competition program takes place in four categories: 1. MICRO FILM (duration up to 1 minute) 2. MINI FILM (duration from 1 to 3 minutes) 3. SHORT FILM (duration from 3 to 15 minutes) 4. THE FILM PRODUCTION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE (duration of the film up to 15 minutes) Festival will be held from 26th to 29th September 2013 in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia. Festival regulations, Competition regulations…
Find out more »Research Seminar: Digital media literacies in formal and informal contexts
Join leading international and national digital media literacy researchers as they share empirical data and findings from a variety of their latest research projects in formal and informal contexts with a focus on children and young people using digital media. Julian Sefton-Green is an independent consultant and researcher working in education and the cultural and creative industries. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Media and Communication, London School of Economics and a research associate at the…
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