The user-generated wiki encyclopedia Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Wikipedia has become the world’s largest wiki encyclopedia, and behind many of its entries are interesting stories of creation, or rather intercreation, since Wikipedia is produced by a large number of contributors. Using the slogan “the free encyclopedia that […]
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Children’s online behaviour: issues of risk and trust
Research conducted by Sherbert Research for Ofcom examined how children think about and deal with issues of risk and trust online. Ofcom has a statutory duty to promote media literacy, including among children. Ofcom conducts regular research on how children use communications services. To date, there has been little in-depth research on how children navigate […]
Media Literacy Education. ”Information for all”
This article analyzes media literacy as a major component of information literacy from a Russian perspective.
What Wikipedia can teach us about the New Media Literacies
The following article is based on the keynote lecture which Henry Jenkins (Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California) presented a few years ago at the National Media Education Conference in Saint Louis. Jenkins is the principal investigator for Project New Media Literacies (NML), a group which originated […]
«El mundo desconectado» y «24 horas sin medios»: Alfabetización mediática para la conciencia crítica de los jóvenes (english & spanish)
La mayoría de los jóvenes del mundo se conecta habitualmente a los medios de comunicación; sin embargo, en pocas ocasiones reciben formación respecto a los impactos que este consumo mediático tiene en ellos mismos. Este artículo expone la experiencia llevada a cabo en el marco del Currículum UNESCO, denominada «24 horas sin medios». En otoño […]
Grade-School Bullying Takes a Toll on the Adolescent Brain
The marks of childhood bullying don’t fade; they imprint themselves on a student’s brain, according to new research presented at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting here this morning. Researchers from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine tracked 83 healthy children from age 9 through age 14, […]
How is Technology Affecting Our Kids?
This article reflects on how technology is affecting children these days. It analyzes the effects social media and gadgets have on kids’ behavior and the risky exposure they face permanently. It also goes over the consequences and negative effects of the Internet on children’s lives, such as sedentary habits and a false sense of reality, […]
Alfabetización mediática como método para fomentar la participación cívica (english & spanish)
Los cambios en la tecnología han posibilitado un nuevo tipo de ciudadanía participativa; los ciudadanos utilizan blogs, correos, tweets, principalmente para crear e interactuar con otros. Este artículo explora la intersección de los medios de comunicación y la alfabetización mediática y su relación con la participación ciudadana, mediante el análisis de tres programas específicos que […]
La interacción de los jóvenes con los medios en Egipto, India, Finlandia, Argentina y Kenia (english & spanish)
En la actual sociedad de la información, encontrar, valorar y utilizar la comunicación es una estrategia fundamental de supervivencia. Los medios tradicionales y nuevos como las bibliotecas, archivos, medios de masas o Internet tienen una función crucial para las sociedades como fuentes de información. Este trabajo presenta los resultados de un estudio llevado a cabo […]
Media Culture and Media Literacy Education
The following link will take you to a new website of Media Culture and Media Literacy Education in Russia. The platform includes access to free articles, books and publications, and information on events and conferences.
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