This site offers information, resources and guidance; inspiring media studies teachers to engage students in relevant learning. Moreover, it presents some current viewpoints on how media literacy is defined and suggestions for further reading.
Youth and ICT UNESCO
UNESCO offers a wide range of materials and resources to promote media literacy. Through its Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO is actively assisting young people to produce information themselves by supporting youth media, by facilitating the creation of youth information and communication networks and by providing appropriate technologies to youth organisations.
Waging Nonviolence
What is waging nonviolence? Practically speaking, it’s the alternative to the more commonly (and regrettably) used phrase “waging war.” Anecdotally, it’s the title of a book that was one of Gandhi’s only possessions. It also speaks to the focus of this blog, which is the use of media to promote the representation of peace approaches […]
Confronting Antisemitism and Islamophobia Through Media Literacy
In December 2009, 20 young Jewish and Muslim people from 11 different European countries from as far afield as Azerbaijan, Denmark and the UK gathered together to the seminar Confront Antisemitism and Islamophobia through Media Literacy. CEJI offers a summary and several articles with the highlights and the main ideas brought out during the seminar.
MediaManual
MediaManual provides a list of public and non-public associations providing access to media literacy in Austria. Some of the institutions provide skills for a critical understanding and reception of media content and representation. Others offer education in productions skills or provide a independent platform to raise awareness of freedom of speech.
Ethnic Cleansing: The Media and World Opinion
This riveting documentary follows step by step the persuasive media offensive waged by a powerful public relations firm for their client in the Balkan War in 1992. It shows how the key phrase “ethnic cleansing” was used in a media campaign by the firm Ruder Finn. There, James W. Harff orchestrated the campaign that implied […]
Global Voices
Global Voices is a community of more than 300 bloggers and translators around the world who work together to bring you reports from blogs and citizen media everywhere, with emphasis on voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media.
Good News
Good News Agency carries positive and constructive news from all over the world relating to voluntary work, the work of the United Nations, non governmental organizations, and institutions engaged in improving the quality of life – news that doesn’t “burn out” in the space of a day. It is published in English on one Friday […]
End-of Decade Report on The Culture of Peace
This Report of actions by civil society during the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World is provided to the Secretary-General for submission to the General Assembly in conformity with paras 13 and 17 of GA resolution A/Res./64/80. The report has specific areas about communication for peace […]
Journalism Curricula in the Arab region: ‘False Starts’ and Wrong Ends’
This paper attempts to address and evaluate the UNESCO Model Curricula that was releasedduring the first (WJEC) in Singapore in 2007 after a regional consultation meeting on the possibilities ofadaptation of the model in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries of the Arab region at theUniversity of Bahrain. It is supposed to be a generic […]
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