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Edward Said: Framed: the politics of stereotypes

Elias Tsourapas — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:35:29 +0000

About Are we sure that the perception that we have about the East (and about the Middle East and the different struggles it is going through) is neutral and unbiased? The Palestinian academician Said advanced the hypothesis that the European perspective on the East, that has been shaped throughout the 18th and 19th [...]

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The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies: Doug Belshaw TEDxWarwick

Elias Tsourapas — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:24:59 +0000

About Media literacy can be understood in different ways: there are several ways to approach media education. The starting point, however, must always be the traditional concept of ‘literacy’; therefore, the traditional definition of it as it was defined back in 1957 is still valid to this day. We have to start from [...]

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Sanne Blauw: How to defend yourself against misleading statistics – TEDxMaastricht

Elias Tsourapas — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:03:27 +0000

About Sanne Blauw, journalist and statistician who holds a PhD in Statistics, exposes us to the biases hidden in the data and statistics that appear in the media. Basically, we can make a set of data say whatever we want it to say, we can ‘force’ them to serve any purpose and back [...]

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