Around the time of the Indian election in May, a badly-headlined story began spreading which asked “Did Google affect the outcome of the Indian election?” The answer was no, it hadn’t. But beneath the headline was an iceberg. A non-peer-reviewed study, not carried out by anyone affiliated with Google, looked at the effects on undecided […]
Newsletter from NORDICOM (June 2014)
A comprehensive look at Media Trends in the Nordic Countries
Changing the World with Media Literacy: the UNESCO Forum and Declaration
LSE’s Sonia Livingstone and Bournemouth University’s Julian McDougall share some of the challenges and outcomes of the recent UNESCO Media and Information Literacy forum and question how we advocate for truly critical media literacy education in the current political environment. Researchers, educators and a broad range of stakeholders met in Paris at the first UNESCO […]
Media Information Literacy at Doha Center for Media Freedom trains Qatar’s youth
As part of Doha Centre for Media Freedom’s commitment to promoting quality journalism and defending media freedom in Qatar, the Arab world and across the globe, the centre has been providing Media and Information Literacy education to over 600 students, empowering them with the ability to consume media effectively and prevent the spread of misinformation. […]
Social Media Literacy: The Five Key Concepts
Online digital technology has empowered users in ways that were unimaginable twenty years ago. Social media sites have given us the ability to reach a global audience, and have increased the average user’s means to persuade and influence. We are no longer just consumers of media, but content creators and distributors, as well as editors, […]
Voices of Media Literacy: International Pioneers Speak
Voices of Media Literacy is a collection of interviews that were conducted in 2010-2011 with 20 media literacy pioneers who were active in the field prior to 1990. These pioneers represent the English-speaking countries of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and the United States. Their views not only shed light on the development of media […]
Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes in the Nations
The purpose of Children and parents: Media use and attitudes 2013, is to provide a single home for a number of key media metrics relating to parents and children in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, as well as across the UK. It is designed to be a reference document for our stakeholders. It provides […]
New Environments of Media Exposure – Internet and narrative structures: from Media Education to Media Pedagogy and Media Literacy
By observing some of the new environments of media exposure, such as the internet, the mobile communication devices and situations, or the console games’ interaction patterns, we discern that there is a great need for research into, and development of, the field. In order to gather better knowledge about our individual and social situation in […]
Media Education in Four EU Countries
How do Finland, Sweden and the UK tackle media education? And how does that compare to the Netherlands? Common problems and possible solutions. How do various European countries tackle media education? Which countries are the leaders, how do they make children media literate, and what can we learn from them? This report deals with media […]
Audioblogs and Tvblogs, Tools for the Collaborative Learning in Journalism
The aim of the present submission is to show the results of the study carried out with 199 students of journalism degree from the University of Valladolid. This experience evaluates to what extend blogs promote individual and group competences and skills, with the goal to determine the advantages and disadvantages of collaborative learning in the […]
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