Narrative based new media innovations, such as digital stories, computer gaming, and location based scenarios can enrich community engagement in the urban planning process. Community derived stories of the past and future can thereby inform policy and modelling to preserve heritage and yield more sustainable cities. A research team comprising creatives, new media specialists, educators, […]
New Media Consortium Horizon Report: 2013 K-12 Edition
The New Media Consortium, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), with the support of HP, produced the NMC Horizon Report > 2013 K-12 Edition. This fifth edition in the annual K-12 series of the NMC Horizon Project examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on and […]
Connecting to Opportunity: A Survey of Afghan Women’s Access to Mobile Technology
Before 2002, Afghans were cut off from each other and the world. Over the past decade, some 20 million mobile phone subscriptions have been set up, and the combined networks of the major mobile phone companies cover 88% of the country’s 30 million people. The mobile telecommunications sector is a major driver of the economy, […]
Empowering local radios with ICTs
UNESCO’s project “Empowering Local Radios with ICTs” aims to bridge the gap between poor people – specially women and girls – and the public debate on issues of local public concern. This is achieved through a series of capacity-building activities in local radio stations, improving the programming quality, providing training on the use of ICTs […]
Association Burkinabè pour la Promotion de l’Educommunication (ABPE)
ABPE is an Association of social communication, education and mobilization of adolescents, youth and educators. Its purpose is firstly, to promote and disseminate the processes and practices of educational communication and also work to mobilize youth, youth and educators for effective implementation of the human right to communication and social transformation. It aims to contribute […]
Narrating African Politics: Social Imaginaries and Climate Change in the Media
There are many hurdles in Africa to overcome in order to break down the barriers that prevent the majority of people from knowing and sharing information about climate change. However, this dilemma could be addressed by increasing trust in the media and news coverage (mainstream and alternative), which can only be realized by addressing the […]
Three Decades of Spanish Communication Research: Towards Legal Age
This paper analyses the evolution of Spanish communication research published as scientific articles between 1980 and 2010. It quantifies the volume of this production with two different samples: the first sample includes national journals and offers original and unprecedented data; the second one includes international journals, defined as those indexed by the Web of Science. […]
Mediawijzer
Mediawijzer.net was established in 2008 at the initiative of the government. Mediawijzer.net is aiming to provide all Dutch citizens with a framework in which to become media literate in order that they can increasingly participate fully in society. Being ‘media literate’ means possessing the knowledge and skills to be able to function consciously, critically and […]
Media professionals discuss online hate speech
Montenegro media professionals discuss online hate speech at UNESCO roundtable. The issue of hate speech in online media in Montenegro and how to combat it were discussed on 24 May at a roundtable organized in Podgorica by UNESCO, in collaboration with the South East Europe Network for Professionalization of Media and the Montenegro Media Institute.
5 Great Media Literacy Programs and How to Assess Their Impact
Increasingly, Public Media 2.0 projects are moving not only beyond broadcast to social and mobile platforms, but into the realms of digital and media literacy training. Producers of such projects recognize that in order to participate fully in the new media world, children and adults need to be able to access, analyze, evaluate and communicate […]
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