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The Annual Bullying Survey 2017

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy, Youth Media

The Annual Bullying Survey 2017, the fifth and largest edition of Ditch the Label yearly benchmark of bullying in the United Kingdom. Ditch the Label surveyed over 10,000 young people aged 12-20 in partnership with schools and colleges from across the country. Ditch the Label free report has thousands of the latest bullying statistics and […]

 

The Journal of Media Literacy Education (Volume 9, Issue 1, 2017)

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy

The Journal of Media Literacy Education is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal that supports the development of research, scholarship and the pedagogy of media literacy education. It is the official journal of the National Association for Media Literacy Education. No author fees are charged for publication in this journal. Link: http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/Author: severalSource: JMLE

 

Capacity Building in a Changing ICT Environment

, Filed Under: Media Education Policy

This issue of “Capacity Building in a Changing ICT Environment” was prepared by the Human Capacity Building Division (HCB) within the Projects and Knowledge Management Department of the Telecommunication Development Bureau of ITU. The work was carried out under the overall direction of Cosmas Zavazava, Chief of Department, with a team comprised of Susan Teltscher, […]

 

A research project about youth empowerment (interactive documentary)

, Filed Under: Youth Media

Project HEBE is a research project financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness that analyzes youth empowerment and the spaces, moments and processes that shape it. The research is a collaboration of four Catalan universities: The University of Girona (the project leader), the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Barcelona and […]

 

Fight fake news by making media literacy part of core curricula

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy

Opinion article. In this era of fake news, covfefe, and biased advocacy journalism outlets like Fox News and MSNBC, how can news consumers surf through this wave of information that bombards us daily? When I ask my students whether they’ve received training in media literacy, the response is often shrugs and blank stares. Freshmen frequently […]

 

The Role of Information Literacy in Higher Education: An Initiative at Al Akhawayn University in Morocco.

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy

This paper, part of which was presented at the 12th annual AMICAL conference at the American University in Bulgaria held in Blagoevgrad, on 29 May 2015, reports on a doctoral research project which explores the meaning and role of information literacy in higher education and lifelong learning. It also highlights an information literacy initiative at […]

 

Digital Media, Transformative Education and Democratic Praxis (new book: Call for articles)

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy, Media Education Policy, Youth Media

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (deadline: September 1, 2017) More information, please go to link New digital communication technologies offer great promise as tools, platforms and spaces for the cultivation of empowering, liberatory educational practices as well as for the development and circulation of diverse and counter-hegemonic perspectives. These same technologies have provoked a terrific amount of […]

 

Unpacking Gender Bias in Advertising

, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy, Media Education Policy

New joint research from The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media at Mount Saint Mary’s University and J. Walter Thompson New York, in collaboration with University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering, analyzed more than 2,000 films from the Cannes Lions archive (English language only). It reveals that men get about four times […]