Brochure on Digital Media with introductory remarks from Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Institut fuer Medienpaedagogik in Forschung und Praxis
The Institute for Media Education (JFF) was founded in 1949 and since has been concerned with research and educational practices in the context of youth media. Special about the JFF is its unique combination of research and practice: Results of our research are the basis for educational models in the work with children and adolescents. […]
European Commission’s Audiovisual and Media Policies
The European Union’s sector on Audiovisual and Media Policies directly employs over one million people. In addition to its economic importance, it also plays a key social and cultural role throughout Europe since television is the most important source of information and entertainment in European societies. To implement audiovisual and media policies, the European Union […]
Independent Media Center
Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media’s distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity. IMC […]
Gesellschaft fuer Medienpaedagogik und Kommunikationskultur (GMK)
The Association for Media Education and Communication Culture in Germany (GMK) was founded in 1984 as an umbrella organization for a broad spectrum of professionals and experts, engaged in both practical and academic work in the fields of education, culture and the media. Being the largest Association, concerned with media literacy and media education in […]
International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI)
The IZI aims to contribute to understanding of the cultural meaning of television for children and young people and of the ways that television is embedded in children’s and young people’s lives. Additionally, the IZI aims to contribute to the discussion of broadcasters’ public service obligations as well as the social responsibility of the media […]
EU Commission Ml Questionnaire responses
To cultivate and improve media literacy in the digital age, the European Commission has launched an EU-wide survey of best practices. The public consultation was closed on 15 December 2006, and its objective was to identify the existing and possible approaches to media literacy and to provide a description of its emerging trends throughout Europe. […]
European Commission: Audio Visual Policies
Over the past 16 years, MEDIA, the EU’s support programme for the European audiovisual industry, has supported the development and distribution of thousands of films as well as training activities, festivals and promotion projects throughout the continent. From 2001-2006, more than half a billion euros were injected into 8,000 projects from over 30 countries. The […]
Xenoclipse Project
XenoCLIPse is an action-based research project for empowerment through racial tolerance and media education. eCLIPse, the consortium’s successful first collaboration, identified the need to target ethnic minorities and go beyond the institutional context of universities. Involvement of ethno-cultural minorities means media exposure as both objects and subjects. The new project envisages empowerment through increased access […]
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 […]