Platforms like Twitter and Facebook have tools in place that allow users to report harassment and hate speech, though the sites’ limitations mean too many reports tend to go unaddressed. Still, it’s worth making the effort if you see threatening messages online. There are also outside sources you can turn to if you stumble upon […]
Weaponizing the Digital Influence Machine: The Political Perils of Online Ad Tech
Weaponizing the Digital Influence Machine: The Political Perils of Online Ad Tech identifies the technologies, conditions, and tactics that enable today’s digital advertising infrastructure to be weaponized by political and anti-democratic actors. Authors Anthony Nadler, Matthew Crain, and Joan Donovan (Media Manipulation Research Lead, Data & Society) define the “Digital Influence Machine,” or DIM, as […]
Call for Papers. Visual, digital and media culture: Images among generations
Social context determined by the culture of media convergence, together with the proliferation of digital devices connected to the Internet and their penetration among citizens, has given relevance, more than ever, to the media and visual culture. Digital media and images have conducted visual field towards the study of consumer´s practices and producer´s image, in […]
MEDEA Awards 2019
The 2019 MEDEA Awards are specifically devoted to higher and continuing education. In tandem with the Video in Higher Education conference organised by the Media & Learning Association together with KU Leuven on 5-6 June 2019 in Leuven (Belgium) this year’s competition invites entries related to or aimed at those involved in higher and continuing […]
2018 • VOLUME 65, NUMBER 1 & 2 13 Civic media as a cultural dialogue: A professional development journey of Arab and Jewish teachers via documentary filmmaking in Israel
Eighteen Arab and Jewish teachers of civic education and communication studies took part in a national professional development for peace education at the Israeli Center for Educational Technology from 2016 to 2018. They created documentaries as a way to have a cultural dialogue. While learning to produce a documentary as a form of reflection, the […]
Parenting for a Digital Future
In policy predictions and in the news, by their peers and by their children’s teachers, parents are asked to consider radically different visions of life in the ‘digital age’. On the one hand, there are promises of digital jobs requiring 21st-century skills, new avenues for learning and creativity and expression. On the other, digital technologies […]
Social media in the classroom: developing new student-centred learning
The Impact of Social Media project aims to provide highly interactive student-centred classroom activities for use both within and beyond the classroom. The open-access materials were designed to support the curricula in the UK and Hong Kong, but have since been taken up by teachers and students internationally. Link: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2018/12/19/social-media-in-the-classroom-developing-new-student-centred-learning/Author: Laura Pountney, Tom McDonaldSource: London […]
Art of Living with the Media
On 11 December 2018 in Brussels, EAVI hosted a conversation, the Art of Living with the Media. The aim of the day was to explore the future of media literacy and global citizenship, and to present a new perspective for media literacy with a new framework for the future, developed by EAVI. The format of […]
Opportunities for Media and Information Literacy in the Middle East and North Africa
The volume sheds light on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and intends to ‘inspire and become a resource for educators’ in that region who are ‘looking for opportunities to bring to their classrooms elements of MIL education’, as well as to ‘facilitate the development of better understanding among individuals from different religious […]
Information Literacy Concepts
What is information literacy and what does it mean to be information literate? The American Library Association defines information literacy as a set of abilities empowering individuals to recognize when information is needed and to be able to locate it, evaluate it, and use it effectively. While information literacy is often talked about on college […]
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