News Archives - EAVI Information and Democracy Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:47:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://eavi.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cropped-Untitled-design-32x32.webp News Archives - EAVI 32 32 Media Literacy – Levelling the Playing Field for People Living with Disability https://eavi.eu/media-literacy-levelling-playing-field-people-living-disability/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:29:50 +0000 http://eavi.eu/?p=8044 Approximately 44 million Europeans are reported as living with a disability. This can often prevent them from taking a full part in society and economy, whether by way of education, employment and society more generally. These disabilities can take the form of a physical impairment or a mental illness or disorder which hinders basic function. [...]

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]]> The European Commission Media Literacy Experts Group https://eavi.eu/european-commission-media-literacy-experts-group/ Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:14:05 +0000 http://eavi.eu/?p=8022 The European Commission representatives stressed the importance of media literacy and framed this debate around fake news and social media

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]]> Facebook’s Fake News Problem and What You Can Do to Stop It https://eavi.eu/facebooks-fake-news-problem-can-stop/ Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:21:51 +0000 http://www.eavi.eu/?p=2193 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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]]> Refugees and Migrants: the inconvenient truths – First Event of EAVI’s #MyStory Project https://eavi.eu/eavi-story-first-event/ Wed, 05 Oct 2016 13:54:31 +0000 http://www.eavi.eu/?p=2054 “We shouldn't talk about quality journalism. Quality journalism is just journalism.” Refugees and Migrants: the inconvenient truths – Residence Palace, Brussels, 4th October 2016 We kicked off EAVI's project #MyStory: Media, Migrants & Refugees (funded by European Commission), on Tuesday October 4th. The first #MyStory event, organised by the Alliance Internationale de Journalistes (AIJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) [...]

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]]> EAVI Weekly Media Digest #1 https://eavi.eu/eavi-weekly-media-digest-1/ Fri, 09 Sep 2016 12:31:06 +0000 http://www.eavi.eu/?p=1940 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 [...]

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]]> New Project: My Story | Migration and Media https://eavi.eu/story-media-migrants/ Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:38:53 +0000 http://www.eavi.eu/?p=1802 EAVI and partners are happy to announce that we have been successful in our Europe for Citizens project application, titled My Story - Media and Migrants.

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