Elementary School This kit is designed to unearth stereotypes about Africa and helps to teach about diversity. In the first lesson, students challenge their own stereotypes about Africa through a series of photographs. After discussing the photographs, students examine how media constructions of Africa helped inform their responses. The second lesson uses currency as the […]
Media and information literacy (Deutsche Welle Akademie)
Media and information literacy (MIL) is linked to access to information, free expression and education. A new DW Akademie discussion paper analyzes several MIL projects and the issue of stakeholder involvement.
Youth comprehension of political messages in YouTube videos
This article investigates the extent to which young people are able to comprehend the political messages contained in satirical videos that circulate online. We do so through an analysis of responses to videos embedded within an online survey of 15- to 25-year-olds (N = 2070) conducted in 2011. Respondents were randomly assigned to view one of two […]
Community Media Association
The CMA is a non-profit making organisation founded in 1983 to support community radio – and our remit has expanded to now include community television and community-based Internet projects. The CMA represents the community media sector to Government, industry and regulatory bodies. Membership currently exceeds 600, bringing together established organisations, aspirant groups and individuals within […]
Propaganda and Freedom of the Media (OSCE)
(available in English & Russian) This non-paper aims to facilitate the OSCE participating States in formulating national and international law and policy toward the current spread of propaganda intertwined with the conflict in and around Ukraine. It distinguishes two sorts of propaganda in the contemporary world. The first is called propaganda for war and hatred; […]
Social Media in the Middle East: The Story of 2015
This report is the fourth in a series of annual reports designed to capture some of the key developments in the world of social media – within the Middle East – during the past twelve months. Interest in this field, which was first unlocked by the Arab Spring, continues to attract researchers, marketers and businesses. […]
Youth Media Alliance (YMA)/ L’Alliance Médias Jeunesse (AMJ)
Youth Media Alliance (YMA) seeks to enrich the lives of Canadian children and teens by helping improve the quality of the content created for them on all screen-based media. The Alliance pursues its mission of encouraging high-quality content by presenting annual awards of excellence to the best productions targeting young English- and French-speaking Canadians. It […]
Children and parents: Media use and attitudes report 2015
This report examines children’s media literacy. It provides detailed evidence on media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 5-15, as well as detailed information about the media access and use of young children aged 3-4. The report also includes findings relating to parents’ views about their children’s media use, and the […]
Children’s Media Lives – Year 2 Findings (2016)
This document provides analysis of the findings from the second year of Ofcom’s Children’s Media Lives study. This was begun in 2014 to provide a small-scale, rich and detailed qualitative complement to Ofcom’s quantitative surveys of media literacy. The project follows 18 children, aged 8-15 at the beginning of the study, over three years, interviewing […]
The Representations of Islam and Muslims in popular media: Educational Strategies and to develop critical media literacy
The way Islam is understood today, and for much of the Western world, is based on the perception that was established by Orientalist scholars of the 18th to 20th century. Many studies have demonstrated that the negative images of the Muslim world, in American Western mass media, particularly Hollywood movies, are inherited attitudes from the […]
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