Democracy im Rausch der Daten
About Swiss director David Bernet provides with this very detailed documentary, an insight into the legislative process at EU level. The camera follows the actions taken at the level of the EU institutions by a handful of people who try to protect society from the dangers of big data and mass surveillance. The main players are the young German MEP from the Green party Jan Philip Albrecht and the experienced former Commissioner for Information Society and Media and now member of the EU Parliament Viviane Reding. Jan Philipp Albrecht and are trying to [...]
The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies: Doug Belshaw TEDxWarwick
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 the assumption that it is not really possible to speak of illiterate and literate persons as two different categories: literacy is a spectrum of variability in the capacity of understanding and making sense of the world. Modern literacy comprises a [...]
The Internet’s Own Boy | The Story of Aaron Schwartz (2014)
About Depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer, and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. Read our article about the importance of Aaron Swartz's activism here. Credits Directed & Produced by Brian Knappenberger
