Digital Well-Being: Striking a Balance in the Age of Technology
In today's hyper-connected world, digital media has become an indispensable part of our lives. From social media to news updates, from online shopping to mobile banking, technology has seamlessly integrated into our daily routines. However, this pervasiveness of digital media has raised concerns about its impact on our mental health and overall well-being. Excessive screen time, constant exposure to social media, and the pressure to maintain a digital persona can lead to various adverse effects, including anxiety, depression, sleep disturbances, and decreased focus. The constant stream of information and stimulation from digital [...]
Copy-Me: A Web Series About Copying
About Copy-Me is a series from Romanian organisation, copy-me.org that aims to debunk myths and misconceptions about copyright and copying. The series explores the topics of remixing, the history of copyright, distribution and pricing and 'is copying wrong?' The videos are informative, funny and challenge the powerful status quo messages of industry and big name publishers. The series is available in English, Catalan, Croatian, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Finnish, Dutch and more. You can find more resources and videos on the copy-me website. Credits [...]
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 [...]
VIDEO: News Mashup is an Important Lesson in Media Literacy
This video edits together BBC footage of a parade in the UK with audio commentary of a parade in North Korea and asks "are the two countries really so different?"
