Interview: Katerina Chrysanthopoulou of Greece’s new Media Literacy Institute
As part of EAVI's series of interviews with our partners' organisations, we interviewed Katerina Chrysanthopoulou, the co-founder of the newly-established Media Literacy Institute in Greece.
Media Literacy Network in the Republic of Macedonia
EAVI’s partner organisation, the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Service (AVMS) recently established a Media Literacy Network in Macedonia.
Interview: Children of Media Project in Croatia Wins Prize for Media Literacy
We spoke to Danijel Labas about the project Djeca medija (Children of Media) from the DKMK (Association for Communication and Media Culture) in Zagreb, Croatia. Danijel is the The project recently won the award of Special Jury Prize from the Evens Foundation's 2017 Media Literacy Prize.
Choose Your Words Wisely
One of the recommendations on the path to enlightenment (for us ordinary people towards some wisdom), it is the so called ‘right speech’ – talk to others with the intention not to cause harm, but rather assist, inspire and uplift.
Media Literacy and the AVMSD: From Nowhere to Here
EAVI's secretary general Paolo Celot on EAVI's campaign resulting in the European Parliament's vote to re-introduce media literacy to the Audiovisual Media Services Directive.
Support a Copyright for Educators in Europe
EAVI fully supports rightcopyright, COMMUNIA's campaign for a better copyright for education in Europe. Although some copyright exceptions exist for education, a lot has changed in education practice since Europe last updated copyright rules in 2001 and it may be a long time before we see another review. It is important that we get copyright right RIGHT NOW!
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.
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.
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.
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.
