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Soliya is a pioneering non-profit organization using new technologies to facilitate dialogue between students from diverse backgrounds across the globe. Our flagship program, the Connect Program, uses the latest web-conferencing technology to bridge the gap between university students in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the United States. In a time when media plays […]
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Citizen empowerment through ICT
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The Media Education Centre (MEC) for children and youth is founded as no-political, no-profit NGO, gathering civilest willing to work for aims of scientific and professional researches about influence and application of media in no-formal education of children through media literacy, and in accordance with human and children rights on access to information, rights to […]
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Link to pdf of Walter Benjamin’s 1935 seminal text.——————-More on Benjamin’s work: http://www.wbenjamin.org/walterbenjamin.html —————————
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In December 2009, Soliya released the results of groundbreaking neuroscience research exploring media’s impact on intergroup relations. The research was conducted in 2008 and 2009 by labs at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the New School for Social Research and supported by the Alliance of Civilizations Media Fund prior to its merger […]
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News on Children, Youth and Media in the World No. 2, 2009, from the International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media is now available on the web site: http://www.nordicom.gu.se/clearinghouse.php ————————- This issue includes articles on e.g. youth fandom and their international networks, research on preferences of information design on Internet by Spanish youth, a presentation […]
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The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the regional organisation of the International Federation of Journalists, was hosted last Friday for the first time by leaders of the Commission of the African Union (AU) at its headquarters in Addis Ababa on the eve of the meeting of African leaders.
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Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world […]
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This article explores what media literacy courses actually teach students. Do students become more knowledgeable consumers of media messages? Do students, armed with that knowledge, become more engaged citizens? A large multiyear study utilizing a sample of 239 University of Maryland undergraduates in a pre-post/control “quasi-experiment” found that the students enrolled in a media literacy […]
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The new issue of The Journal of Media Literacy explores “School 2.0: Transforming 21st Century Education Through New Media Literacies”. How will schools need to change to keep up with the growth of new media? We now have Web 2.0 – what will School 2.0 look like?