, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy, Media Education Policy, Organizations
Soliya is a pioneering non-profit organization using new technologies to facilitate dialogue between students from diverse backgrounds across the globe. Our flagship program, the Connect Program, uses the latest web-conferencing technology to bridge the gap between university students in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the United States. In a time when media plays […]
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The Media Education Centre (MEC) for children and youth is founded as no-political, no-profit NGO, gathering civilest willing to work for aims of scientific and professional researches about influence and application of media in no-formal education of children through media literacy, and in accordance with human and children rights on access to information, rights to […]
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The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy is a 17-member group of media, policy and community leaders. Its purpose is to assess the information needs of communities, and recommend measures to help Americans better meet those needs. The Knight Commission sees new thinking about news and information as a necessary […]
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Media are one of the most powerful tools which shape Jamaicans’ morals, values, perceptions and expectations, yet they have a relatively uncritical and unmonitored presence in citizens’ lives. Sexism, gender stereotypes and violence in the media are often absorbed uncritically to the point that they are seen as acceptable and even expected. The project will […]
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SIGNIS is a non-governmental organization that includes members from 140 countries. As the “World Catholic Association for Communication”, it brings together radio, television, cinema, video, media education, Internet, and new technology professionals. SIGNIS was created in November 2001 from the merger between two organizations (Unda, for radio and television; and OCIC, for cinema and audiovisual) […]
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The Women’s Media Center makes women visible and powerful in the media. Led by our president, Jehmu Greene, the WMC works with the media to ensure that women’s stories are told and women’s voices are heard. We do this in three ways: through our media advocacy campaigns; by creating our own media; and by training […]
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The Media Diversity Institute (MDI) works internationally to encourage and facilitate responsible media coverage of diversity. It aims to prevent the media from intentionally or unintentionally spreading prejudice, intolerance and hatred which can lead to social tensions, disputes and violent conflict. MDI encourages instead, fair, accurate, inclusive and sensitive media coverage in order to promote […]
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The European Youth Press is an umbrella association of young journalists in Europe. It involves more than 48,000 journalists who are less than 30 years of age. The association consists of fourteen national youth media associations: DUE – Hungarian Youth Press, FEJS – Association of journalism students Macedonia, POLIS – Polish Youth Press, Young Media […]
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Media Education Center of Armenia is aimed to educate children and parents, youths and teachers to become media literate citizens of a knowledge-based society. We seek to empower citizens to make responsible choices while dealing with old and new media. Our aim is to highlight school children and students how to use media and educational […]
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The Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación is a group consolidated and specialized in the investigation and scientific disclosure, that belongs to the Department of Journalism and Sciences of the Communication of the UAB. Its objective is to promote the investigation in a field of confluence between two disciplines: Communication and Education. Since its creation, has […]