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UNESCO-UNAOC UNITWIN on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue
UNESCO and UNAOC have created the UNESCO-UNAOC UNITWIN Global Chair on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (“UNESCO-UNAOC MILID UNITWIN”). UAC-MILID specific objectives include: Act as a Observatory for critically analyzing: the role of Media and Information Literacy (“MIL”) as a catalyst for civic participation, democracy and development; for the promotion of free, independent and pluralistic […]
Media and Information Literacy and Women, the Case of Sub-Saharan Africa
PRESENTED AT THE FIRST FORUM ON MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY (Fez, Morocco, June 2011). In the past couple of years the concepts of information literacy and gender have taken a centre stage in interrogating how intelligent and effective are consumers of information, especially women, able to critically analyse the information they across, particularly that got […]
Refereed JRE On-Line Journal 2010-ISBN 978-0-6464704-5-0
Forward by JRE Section Chair and Journal Editor The JRE On-Line Journal attempts to explore the means and the ways of using action journalism research to help journalists, journalism students and journalism educators or concerned citizens design the successful integration of "new paradigms" of educational ideas (online or other), materials and content with […]
Influencia de los Medios en el Desarrollo Infanto-Juvenil
Introducción En las últimas décadas junto con el explosivo desarrollo tecnológico ,especialmente de los Medios que incluyen televisión (TV), radio, videojuegos , telefonía ,Internet , etc , se ha comprobado también la gran influencia que estas tecnologías, a través de su omnipresencia en los hogares, escuelas, instituciones , etc, tienen sobre la salud infanto-juvenil. Nuevas […]
The impact of ICT on Peace, Security & Governance in Africa
One of the most important features of the digital age is the use of new communications technologies to build digital citizenships. Cultures could be a source of conflict that affect the use of new media to make powerful collaborations among online communities across societies, and within the same society, however, there are still altercation between […]
Introducing Media literacy in Greek schools: a hurdle race
This paper was presented in the Media Literacy Conference, that was organised by Ofcom, the Media Education Association and the Center for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, University of London (19-20 November 2010, London, UK) in the Research Panel: Implementing Media Education. The aim of the paper is to define the media literacy […]
Journalism Curricula in the Arab region: ‘False Starts’ and Wrong Ends’
This paper attempts to address and evaluate the UNESCO Model Curricula that was released during the first (WJEC) in Singapore in 2007 after a regional consultation meeting on the possibilities of adaptation of the model in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries of the Arab region at the University of Bahrain. It is supposed to […]
Surviving Dreams and Nightmares: Empowering the angry civil society and domestic violence in Africa1
Any definition of civil society will be different on opposite sides of the Sahara, since from a political point of view, the problems are not identical. Sociologists in the Maghreb, for example, include only "the parties and associations which, despite their divergences of opinion on many issues, share the same values of human rights and […]
The Social Impact of Media Literacy: An Activist Media Approach
This paper was presented at the Rio 3rd Global Forum of the UNAoC as part of the thematic session addressing the issue of the social impact of media literacy. Media Literacy was conceptualised as a transversal socio-cultural development encompassing the contemporary convergence of multi-platform media with formal and informal education.
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