Articles: Media Literacy, Democracy, and the Challenge of Fake News Lance E. Mason, Dan Krutka, and Jeremy Stoddard Research Articles Media Literacy and Climate Change in a Post-Truth Society James S. Damico, Mark Baildon, and Alexandra Panos Civic Media Literacy in a Transmedia World: Balancing Personal Experience, Factual Accuracy and Emotional Appeal as Media Consumers […]
Ethics in the Age of Information
With the help of some metaphors, in this talk Luciano outlines the nature and scope of Information Ethics, the new philosophical area of research that investigates the ethical impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on human life and society. In the course of the presentation, he introduces some of the topics he has analysed […]
Is internet gaming as addictive as gambling?
New research by Andrew Przybylski (OII, Oxford University), Netta Weinstein (Cardiff University), and Kou Murayama (Reading University) published at the American Journal of Psychiatry suggests that very few of those who play internet-based video games have symptoms suggesting they may be addicted. The article also says that gaming, though popular, is unlikely to be as […]
Summer Doctoral Programme (Oxford Internet Institute)
Each year in July, the OII Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP) brings together up to 30 advanced doctoral students engaged in dissertation research relating to the Internet and other digital technologies. By sharing their work, debating topics of mutual interest and learning from leading academics in the field, we hope that participants can enhance the quality […]
The impact of social media abuse on European society
Given that we are talking about the impact fake news has on modern society, it’s perhaps important to underline that it is by no means a new phenomenon. To illustrate this, allow me to take inspiration from the organisers of this conference. The Financial Times was founded in London well over a century ago, in […]
Online Safety for Children and Teens
As a parent, pondering the day when your child will first begin using the internet can be an ominous and stressful thing to consider. The internet is one of the few remaining spaces where people from around the world can easily engage with each other and create new content without large amounts of regulation. Browsing […]
The challenge of youth media
How can youth media production promote civic and political understanding and activism? A review and an interview with Steve Goodman. There’s been a fair amount of debate recently about the civic dimensions of media, and of media literacy. Claims about the liberating or empowering potential of digital media date back to the origins of the […]
Tackling the Information Crisis: A Policy Framework for Media System Resilience
Changes in the UK media system have resulted in an information crisis, with a growing number of leaders in health, defence and politics concerned about system resilience and the new difficulty of achieving informed debate. This report argues that the information crisis is manifested in ‘five giant evils’ among the UK public – confusion, cynicism, […]
PLURAL+ 2018 (live streamed)
THE PLURAL+ 2018 Gala Dinner Awards Ceremony at the United Nations Headquarters will be live streamed. November 19, 6:30 New York time. PLURAL+ is a Youth Video Festival focusing on the topics of migration, diversity, social inclusion and the prevention of xenophobia. It was created in 2008 as a joint initiative between the United Nations […]
How youth are navigating modern misinformation and propaganda online
As the tentacles of fake news reach further into the mainstream, how do we keep them from getting a chokehold on democracy? The obvious place to start is by understanding what fake news is. As opposed to satire, opinion or sloppy reporting—all of which can contain degrees of untruth, or at least bias—false news is […]
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