EAVI Conducts Media Literacy Workshop at the Autistic Women’s Retreat 2018
On 22 September, EAVI attended the 2018 Autistic Women’s Retreat in Oxfordshire, UK to hold a workshop on media literacy for 15 participants – all autistic women from Britain, USA and Sweden. The workshop focused on media literacy concepts, and specific issues facing autistic women in their relationship with the media, both in terms of representation and participation. The workshop opened with an introduction to media literacy, using EAVI’s tried and tested six questions and three examples formula, three media messages were broken down and analysed by way of example. As the last media [...]
Where do we draw the line?
With the recent Cambridge Analytica revelations, will we finally draw the line on Facebook's invasions of privacy, especially when it has acted as a platform of mis- and dis-information for so long? In the last three hours on my Facebook newsfeed, I have witnessed: Two people boasting about illegal activity on community pages; A petition to end an animal welfare issue that has been illegal for 9 years; A misogynistic joke straight out of the 1950s. It wasn’t funny then, either; An overtly racist meme (adding idiocy to insult, it said burka when it [...]
EAVI Roundtable Debate at the European Parliament – Democracy, Journalism and Literacy
In December EAVI together with the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom held the Democracy, Journalism and Literacy event at the European Parliament. The event was hosted by MEPs Barbara Spinelli and Curzio Maltese. The event focused on the dangers posed to media pluralism presented by new media and the threat to democracy this creates, as well as the role of media literacy and other initiatives to combat this. Barbara Spinelli opened the discussions by sharing her observations of media freedom – namely the level of self-censorship among journalists, protections afforded to whistleblowers, and [...]
#MyStory Final Event. Media (Literacy) and Refugees.
The final event for the My Story Project took place in Brussels on 5 December 2017. The full-day event was divided into two sessions. In the morning session, EAVI and My Story partners from Hungary, Slovenia, Germany, Italy, France and Greece shared their experience and contributions to the project, including audiovisual material and a Dos and Don’ts Guide for journalists. Grass root organisations shared their experience with their respective media initiatives. Speqkers feutered Ulla Pentinpuro, co-founder of FB Community support for refugees in Belgium group; Bieke Heene, representative from OurHouse project; Camille [...]
CMPF – EAVI Roundtable Debate- Democracy, Journalism and Literacy
#MyStory Final Event- Democracy, Journalism and Literacy. How to preserve media freedom, pluralism and citizens interests in a post-truth era.
#MyStory: New Feature Documentary – Dissecting Journalism
#MyStory partner, The Hungarian Moving Image and Media Education Association has released their latest documentary for the #MyStory project, Dissecting Journalism. The film documents the event the association organised in Subotica, Serbia where a refugee camp has been set up on the Hungarian border. The event involved journalists, refugees and locals from Subotica and explores journalism about migrants and refugees through the lens of media literacy.
Media Meets Literacy Conference and Propaganda Lab – Sarajevo
EAVI recently attended the Propaganda Lab and Media Meets Literacy Conference organised by Evens Foundation in Sarajevo from the 19 - 21 September.
Seminar: Protecting European Democracy in a Post-Truth Society, European Parliament
On 6th of September Marietje Schaake and Morten Løkkegaard from Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe hosted a seminar “Protecting democracy in a post-truth era.”
Beyond Fake News – A Workshop on Media Literacy and Fact Checking
We are now subject to media messages more than at any time in history. As the barriers to creating professional-looking multimedia content have been lifted, democratising content production and giving everyday people the opportunity to contribute, so too has the need to verify the reliability of this content. It has become increasingly difficult to distinguish credible news sources from unreliable ones. The UK referendum in 2016 and the US election popularised the term ‘fake news’, but what is fake news and how do we know when we see it? Fake news and its effects [...]
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.
