Publications

MILID Yearbook 2016

Media and Information Literacy: Reinforcing Human Rights, Countering Radicalization and Extremism – The increasingly complex media and information landscape, which has a primary role in our everyday lives, is rapidly changing. It is constantly altering how we communicate, enabling and challenging human rights, freedom of expression,
universal access to information, peace building, sustainable development, and intercultural dialogue.
Read/download the book here.

Opportunities for MIL in MENA Yearbook 2016

Opportunities for Media and Information Literacy in the Middle East and North Africa is the seventeenth Yearbook published by the Clearinghouse and fills a gap in the existing body of literature about the progress of media and information literacy work in different parts of the world. We believe it is of particular interest to shed light on a region, the MENA region, where young citizens’ engagement with media has been in focus in news reporting all over the world in recent years and awareness of MIL competencies is gaining ground.
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Opportunities for MIL in MENA Yearbook 2016 (Arabic Version)

MILID 2015 Yearbook

UNITWIN Cooperation Programme on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID) is based on an initiative from UNESCO and the UN Alliance of Civilizations. Together with International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media at NORDICOM, University of Gothenburg, they have published the MILID Yearbook 2015.
Read/download the book here.

PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival Discussion Guides

PLURAL+ is a youth video festival focusing on the themes of migration,
diversity and social inclusion, organized by the United Nations Alliance
of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the International Organization for
Migration (IOM) with the support of many international partners.
Recognizing youth as powerful agents of social change in a world too
often characterized by intolerance and division, PLURAL + invites young
people to express their views and creativity in short videos.
Read/download the Discussion Guides here.

MIL Policy and Strategy Guidelines

This comprehensive MIL Policy and Strategy Guidelines resource is the first of its kind to treat MIL as a composite concept, unifying information literacy and media literacy as well as considering the right to freedom of expression and access to information through ICTs. These guidelines offer a harmonized approach, which in turn enables all actors to articulate more sustained national MIL policies and strategies, describing both the process and content to be considered.
Read/download the book here.

YOUTH MEDIA VISIONS: Conversations Across Cultures

Youth Media Visions is intended to be a useful resource for people interested in exploring the intersection of youth media, education and creation. It presents seven experiences developed by educators and media creators, who within their organizations work with young people and media production. An initiative of Teachers College/Columbia University and the UNAOC.
Read/download the book here.

MILID 2014 Yearbook

Curriculum for Educators on Media and Information Literacy

Educators are the gateway to literate societies. Therefore, this model Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Curriculum for Teachers is intended as a tool that will provide educators of all backgrounds with the main competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitude) on MIL. It focuses on pedagogical approaches necessary to enable teachers to integrate MIL in their classrooms.
Read the MIL Curriculum for Teachers in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Portuguese or Arabic.

MILID 2013 Yearbook

Mapping Media Education Policies in the World: Visions, Programmes & Challenges

Educators around the world have been championing media education and media literacy for well over two decades, but in most countries policy-makers shaping national education programmes have just recently become aware of the need for media literacy. With this publication the Alliance of Civilizations—in partnership with UNESCO, Grupo Comunicar, and all the contributors—would like to infuse dynamism to the process of normalization which aims to include media education and media literacy in educational curricula across the world. Read the report here: English, Español or 日本語で.