This report focuses not only on the gaps facing Latin America in both education and technology, but especially on the interactions between the two. The central premise of the report is that skills and technology interact in important ways, and this relationship is a fundamental reason for the large observed differences in productivity and incomes […]
Developing Independent Media as an Institution of Accountable Governance
This handbook is the result of a multi-year effort, the first stage of which ‘Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform’. That book explored key issues surrounding the media and governance, including: the ideal role of the media system in strengthening democratic governance, the conditions under which media systems fulfill their objectives, and the policy […]
Europe struggles with digital education
European higher education remains too conservative to adapt to technological innovations, said a Commission High Level Group on the Modernisation of Higher Education in its report published last week (22 October).
Council conclusions on European Audiovisual Policy in the Digital Era
Education, Youth, CULTURE and SPORT Council meeting Brussels, 25 November 2014 The Council adopted the following conclusions: THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION RECOGNISING THAT: 1. the audiovisual industry is crucial both in creating sustainable growth and jobs and in fostering cultural and linguistic diversity and therefore represents a key area for the economic, cultural […]
Russian and Western Media Literacy Education Models
European Researcher, 2014, Vol. 73, № 4-2, pp. 764-780 In different countries there is a wide range of the prospective media literacy education models, which are used in the process of education and upbringing. With that the analysis of the central models demonstrates that the most typical synthetic models belong to three groups: Group A. […]
The Opinions of Russian School Students and Teachers about Media Violence
European Researcher, 2014, Vol. 73, № 4-2, pp. 781-804. The influence of media violence upon Russian teenagers is rather significant. About half the teenagers were positive about its demonstration: they enjoyed films, television shows, and computer games containing on-screen violence and they admired the characters – including “bad guys”. A third of the teenagers were […]
Youth Have Their Say on Internet Governance
Nordic Youth Forum at EurodiG Stockholm June 2012 The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was created at the World Summit on Information Society in Tunis in 2005 in response to calls for an international platform where public policy issues relating to the Internet might be discussed. The Summit asked Secretary General Kofi Annan to summon such […]
Regulation, Awareness, Empowerment – Young People and Harmful Media Content in the Digital Age
In 2005 UNESCO asked the International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media to prepare a publication on ‘Efforts and Innovative Approaches to Reduce Violence in Electronic and Digital Media’. This volume presents the results of the work the Clearinghouse has done in response to that request. Violence is no longer an adequate heading; today, terms […]
Young People in the Nordic Digital Media Culture
Nordicom is a knowledge centre for the area of media and communication research, a cooperation between the five countries of the Nordic region – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Our work aims at developing media studies and at helping to ensure that research results are made visible in the treatment of media issues at […]
The Anyone-Can-Edit Syndrome – Intercreation Stories of Three Featured Articles on Wikipedia
The user-generated wiki encyclopedia Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Wikipedia has become the world’s largest wiki encyclopedia, and behind many of its entries are interesting stories of creation, or rather intercreation, since Wikipedia is produced by a large number of contributors. Using the slogan “the free encyclopedia that […]
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