by Renée Cherow-O’Leary, Ph.D. Paper presented at Northeast Media Literacy Conference, February 4, 2017. In March of 1997 a new and strange show for children premiered. It was produced in the U.K. and called Teletubbies. In it, four puppet-like creatures, each a different color and temperament, live in two worlds, an idyllic grassy and floral […]
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Social Media in the Middle East: The Story of 2016
Article-study by Damian Radcliffe. This report is the fifth in a series of annual reports designed to capture key developments and data related to usage of social media in the Middle East. The past year has seen the continued growth of visual-led social networks, especially in the more affluent Gulf region. Meanwhile, the discernible growth […]
Israeli college students challenge media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Article by Mira Feuerstein & Lea Mandelzis This study is based on a critical media literacy education (CMLE) program in a “peace education through media” (Pet- Med) project conducted simultaneously in three Israeli academic colleges amongst Arab and Jewish students. It sought to assess general short-term trends of changes in the students’ perceptions of the […]
Translation and localization of children’s rights in youth-produced digital media in the Global South: A hermeneutic exploration
by Sanjay Asthana Middle Tennessee State University, USA Through the study of two UNICEF-supported youth media initiatives from Palestine, this article theorizes and generates new empirical knowledge about the encounter between constructions of youth in rights-based discourses of UNICEF and young people’s digital media narratives. The research encountered instances where the universal discourse of children’s […]
A critical introduction to the critical media literacy education
By Ali Reza Bastani, Media Literacy Educator, Ph.D Communications student at Azad University Science and Research Center, Iran The critical media literacy seeks the way to the justice, democracy and training citizens in a world which is turning into global and net era so it necessitates a condition to teach our students critical and transformative […]
Connecting the dots: Media & Information Literacy, Preventing Violent Extremism, and the Global Goals
by Jordi Torrent, UNAOC Most of the efforts to prevent young people’s attraction towards violent extremism fall on ears that are mainly already immune to the lure of violence connected to some form of religious extremism. Many research and studies indicate that social exclusion (real or perceived) is in fact the main engine that pushes […]
Digital Literacy and Growth of Children in Urban China in the New Media Age
By Haibo ZHANG, Deputy Director of Guangzhou Children’s Palace, Director of the Children’s Media Literacy Education Research Center of the China National Youth Palace Association. In order to understand how millennials adopt new media, including the Internet and explore their digital growth and digital literacy, the “Children and Media” research group under Children’s Media Literacy […]
Youth, self, other: A study of Ibdaa’s digital media practices in the West Bank, Palestine
By Sanjay Asthana, Middle Tennessee State University, USA While research on youth media offers persuasive arguments about what young people are doing with information and communication technologies (ICTs), a significant absence from the literature pertains to the general neglect of Palestinian youth engagements with inexpensive ICTs and digital media forms. Despite a few perceptive analyses, […]
Young People in the Media (The Gambia)
Young People in the Media (YPM) in collaboration with UNICEF and the Department of Information Services (DOIS) on Monday commenced a two-day refresher training workshop on communication skills for adolescents with the theme, ‘Effective Communication: A tool for adolescent, empowerment and development’. In her opening remarks, the Social Secretary of YPM, Marie Jeng, said the […]
The framework of Media Education and Media Criticism in the Contemporary World: The opinion of International Experts
Dr. Alexander Fedorov is Deputy Director for Science of Anton Chekhov Taganrog Institute at the Rostov State University of Economics (Russia) (1954alex@mail.ru) (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0100-6389). Dr. Anastasia Levitskaya is Lecturer in the Department of Humanities at Institute of Management and Economics in Taganrog (Russia) (a.levitskaya@tmei.ru) (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8491-8721). The article analyzes the results of the international survey «Synthesis of […]
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