EAVI Weekly Media Digest #1
Introducing the EAVI Weekly Digest. It's a brief summary of some of the things that have happened or have been written during the week regarding media literacy and media in general in Europe and elsewhere. Posted every Friday. 1. Copyright in the EU A lot of discussion on the leaked impact statement on Europe’s new copyright reforms this week. Among the controversies, provisions for ancillary copyright have upset many as it appears to be a backflip by Commission on earlier promises to exclude them. Ancillary copyright, sometimes referred to as a link tax, is being [...]
VIDEO: #brusselslockdown – How Photography Can Be Used to Manipulate Reality
In this video from Belgian photographer, Jimmy Kets, he demonstrates the ways in which photographers can choose to manipulate reality in order to dramatise and sensationalise.
The Pros and Cons of Ad Blocking Explained
EAVI recently attended conferences at the European Parliament to discuss 'Diversity in Media and Culture versus Convergence' and 'An Alternative Media Landscape for Europe.' Amongst discussion of disturbing trends; the concentration of media ownership in Europe and government interference on press freedoms in Hungary, Poland, and Turkey, there was also much talk about what can be done in the new media landscape to maintain independent journalism, given that the old economic models for publishers are failing in the face of the upheavals brought about by the internet. This made us consider the subject of ad [...]
