A viral video of President Trump expressing awe over Mecca is incredibly realistic - unless one is aware that this is out of character for him. Since the posting of this video in early 2017, [...]

What is the best way to deliver a message to Brussels? Get on your bike and pedal 1400 kilometers across Europe! Twenty-five cyclists (including one aged 72!) left Venice, crossed the Alps and passed through [...]

I have a friend called Bill. Bill in his late 60s, slightly right of centre, widowed with adult children and young grandchildren, a big deal in the IT sector in the 80s and 90s, he’s [...]

Working together to bridge the gap in media literacy education Did you know that 9-16-year-old children are using the internet for an average 88 minutes per day? In those 88 minutes it is hard [...]

A piece by Tapio Varis Professor emeritus, University of Tampere, Unesco Chair in Global e-learning CIVILIZATIONAL APPROACH TO MEDIA LITERACY AND KNOWLEDGE 27th AMIC Annual Conference “Communication, Technology, and New Humanism”  17-19 June at Chulalongkorn [...]

We were promised a populist takeover of the European Parliament. And wouldn’t it have been exciting if it had happened. In a mass-grave sort of way. If some segments of the news media are to [...]