The Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media aims to highlight existing work and develop new projects to find new ways to empower young people as both critical consumers and producers of media. It is based at the Institute of Education, University of London, the UK’s leading graduate school of education. We are […]
Mediamanual
The Mediamanual was created by the Austrian BMUKK – Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture – as an interactive platform for media work in schools. It offers pupils, students, and teachers materials for media education. It also provides lectures and workshops on subjects such as film, radio and video. Thematically, it is concerned […]
UNICEF / Voices of Youth
Voices of Youth is a global organization that advocates for children’s right to participate in the media, and evaluates what young people are doing to exercise that right. It has been around since 1995. It started as a way for more than 3,000 young people from 81 countries to send messages to world leaders at […]
Consuming Children: Commercialisation and the Changing Construction of Childhood
“Consuming Children: Commercialisation and the Changing Construction of Childhood” is the title of a major research project that runs from 2006 to 2009 at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research (NOSEB), which is housed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. The project aims to utilize insights and innovative methods, drawn from […]
Knight News Challenge
Created in 1950, Knight Foundation has invested nearly $315 million in projects seeking to advance journalism quality and freedom of expression. The Knight News Challenge, a contest awarding as much as $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news, is in its second year of operation. Last year’s winners included 25 […]
Institute for Multimedia Literacy
As an Organized Research Unit within the School of Cinematic Arts, the University of Southern California’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy (IML) develops educational programs and conducts research on the changing nature of literacy in a networked culture. The IML’s educational programs address students, teachers, and faculty across the educational spectrum, including K-12 teachers, student teachers, […]
Media Education Foundation
The Media Education Foundation produces and distributes documentary films and other educational resources to inspire critical reflection on the social, political and cultural impact of American mass media. The mission of the Media Education Foundation (MEF) is to respond to the challenge posed by the radical and accelerating corporate threat to democracy. Since its founding […]
European Centre for Media Literacy
ECML, co-funded by the European Commission within the “eLearning Initiative” Programme, was initiated in 2004 and ended in 2006 . The aim of the project was to create a European Centre for Media Literacy (ECML) as a non-profit educational organization to help stakeholders to understand why teaching media literacy is so important and to give […]
Digital Beginnings
The Digital Beginnings project explored young children’s use of popular culture, media and new technologies in the home. It was conducted from September 2004 to July 2005. The project was funded by BBC Worldwide and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. A survey was conducted of 1,825 parents and carers of children (aged 0-6) who attended 120 […]
Childnet
Childnet International is a non-profit organization that collaborates with other organizations on a national level to help make the internet a great and safe place for children. Through a series of projects that explore potentially negative uses of the internet, Childnet promotes positive and creative ways that children can benefit from the internet. Childnet works […]