Inter Alia #1: EAVI’s Media Literacy Digest
EAVI attempts to keep you updated with all the new initiatives, software, books, projects, changes in policy, news and whatever else we find relating to media literacy in Europe.
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04, 2017
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04, 2017
Mapping Media Literacy Across Europe
As the skills of being able to readily critical assess and interact with the media continues to grow in importance a new report, Mapping Media Literacy Practices and Actions, from the European Audiovisual Observatory has been released to document the measures being taken at national and European levels to nurture and promote media literacy competencies.
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03, 2017
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: A Data Literacy Primer
It has become remarkably simple to create a valid-looking website, which to the unassuming eye resembles an official, big-name news outlet. But as if verifying text content wasn't hard enough, seductive visualisations; graphs, charts, and maps, made with free tools found anywhere on the internet, can make fact checking even harder.
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02, 2017
Trailer – Imprint Media Messages: The Migrant and Refugee Crisis as Excellent Field of Agenda Setting | #MyStory
From director Laszlo Hartai and the Hungarian Moving Image and Media Education Association, we welcome this documentary as part of the #MyStory: Media, Migrants & Refugees project co-funded by the EU Europe for Citizens Programme and coordinated by the European Association for Viewers Interests - EAVI.
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02, 2017
EAVI Joins 34 Organisations to Advocate for Better Copyright Reform for Education
The joint action was motivated by ambiguous wording used in the directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market that is being discussed by a Parliamentary Committee formed by around 300 MEPs, to whom the letter is addressed.
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01, 2017
Privacytopia Binary Art Exhibition Jan 13 – 29, Brussels
Privacytopia Binary is an exhibition and side event of the upcoming 10th International Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference in Brussels on 25th - 27th January. Running from Jan 13 - 29, Privacytopia is organised by Privacy Salon and artist, curator and researcher Bogomir Doringer, whom we recently spoke to ahead of the opening, as well as duo The Museum who are presenting as part of the exhibition.
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12, 2016
The Secret Agent’s Guide to Protecting your Phone Privacy
TL:DR (Too Long: Didn't Read) is EAVI's series of simple guides to navigating the media landscape. The tips herein are intended to be a guide for users of these platforms who wish to [...]
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11, 2016
Facebook’s Fake News Problem and What You Can Do to Stop It
Post-truth was named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries last week as the scramble to understand what exactly happened in the US election was well underway. One argument being forwarded is that the proliferation of fake news on Facebook may have influenced the result.
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11, 2016
My First Training: Media Literacy, Critical Thinking & Propaganda – ‘Lead On’ Youth Exchange, Canary Islands
EAVI's Luc Steinberg recently lead an Erasmus+ youth exchange in the Canary Islands to give training on media literacy, propaganda and critical thinking.
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10, 2016
EAVI Lecture on Innovative Communication Strategies, Rome
In October La Sapienza University in Rome organised a school on innovative communication strategies. In a two-hour lecture, EAVI Secretary General Paolo Celot illustrated the European policies for communication and digital skills.
