Envoyé Spécial enquête sur la dépendance aux écrans. Une médecin généraliste en région parisienne constate des symptômes récurrents chez les moins de quatre ans surexposés aux tablettes et smartphones. Des enfants dans leur bulle, qui ne peuvent pas soutenir le regard de l’autre. La dépendance aux écrans ne concerne pas que les enfants. Nous sommes […]
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The Journal of Media Literacy (Vol 64, Num 1&2)
Agency is knowledge in action. In media lit eracy, agency is the exercising of awareness through critical thinking skills to effect change personally, locally and/or globally.Agency is also a central dilemma of our evolving electronic environment . With power comes responsibility. As governments, corporations and individuals acquire increasing power over their own and others’ information, […]
CIVIC MEDIA PRACTICE : Identification and Evaluation of Media and Technology That Facilitates Democratic Process
In a context of increasing distrust in institutions, including government, media and news, there is need to understand how civic innovators are using media and technology to counter these trends. Based on over 40 interviews with practitioners, this report identifies “civic media practice” as media and technology used to facilitate democratic process. It focuses specifically […]
2018 Video Contest: What’s Your Story?
TrendMicro is pleased to announce its 2018 What’s Your Story Youth Video Contest. Youth video makers 13 and over can win $10,000 and other prizes by answering the question “How do you know if something online is real or fake?” in a 30 to 120 second video. Link: https://whatsyourstory.trendmicro.com/Author: Trend Micro IncorporatedSource: Trend Micro Incorporated
Teaching social media 1: production
A critical media education approach: using the concept of production (a.k.a. institutions or industry) to teach about social media. Are the ‘key concepts’ of media education still relevant in an age of social media? To what extent do they need to be reformulated, or even replaced? In an earlier post, I made the case for […]
the commons: a pilot methodology for addressing polarization online
February 25, 2018. From June to December 2017, Build Up, in partnership with MIT MISTI and with funding from HumanityX and The City of The Hague, ran a pilot program that explored interventions to address polarization on Facebook and Twitter in the USA. The Commons tested protocols for addressing filter bubbles and polarizing behaviors that […]
#StatusOfMind (Social media and young people’s mental health and wellbeing)
Report– Social media is now a part of almost everyone’s life, but none more so than our young population of digital natives. Its rise to popularity during the mid-2000s has revolutionised the way in which we communicate and share information, both as individuals and as a society. Whilst social media has permeated nearly every aspect […]
DIGITAL engAGEment Conference (call for proposals
DIGITAL engAGEment encompasses myriad ways in which humans encounter, utilize, create and participate with digital technologies, processes, experiences, cultures and environments in the contemporary moment. This year’s conference theme: Media. Literate. #activist, is a call to express and refresh concepts of media activism and media literacy in the present moment, specifically: what it means to […]
ASEAN Youth Video Contest 2018 (Call for entries)
The ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Youth (SOMY) is pleased to announce the 4th Annual ASEAN Youth Video contest focused on the theme of “Youth Celebrating Diversity to Promote a Culture of Peace and Tolerance.” This contest is supported by the ASEAN Foundation and the U.S. Government through the United States Agency for International Development […]
The Social Media Threat to Society and Security
It takes significant effort to assert and defend what John Stuart Mill called the freedom of mind. And there is a real chance that, once lost, those who grow up in the digital age – in which the power to command and shape people’s attention is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few companies […]
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