Editors: Ulla Carlsson, Sherri Hope Culver Nordicom, 2013, 416 p. – ISBN 978-91-86523-64-0, (Reports Clearinghouse) The UNITWIN Cooperation Programme on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID) is based on an initiative from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC). This Network was created [...]
UNESCO will launch the Global Forum for Partnership on MIL (GFPMIL), which will be held in Nigeria 26-28 June 2013 ). This activity is part of its strategy involves creating partnerships necessary to amplify the impact of MIL, where this institution has been working for over 40 years. This initiative is a partnership between UNESCO, the [...]
Researchers Dr Manuel Pinto and Sara Pereira, from the Communication and Society Research Centre of the University of Minho, visited the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) on 19 and 20 November to collaborate on research projects. Among topics covered at the conference were a current overview on the progress of the EMEDUS project, together with [...]
José Manuel Pérez Tornero, director of the Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación, from Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), reflected on media literacy in times of crisis during the media literacy conference of the European Commission. The Spanish researcher hosted the conference on Media literacy In Times of Crisis at the invitation of the European Commission. [...]
Autonomous University of Barcelona presents the EMEDUS project at the Conference on Media & Learning
A group of researchers led by José Manuel Pérez Tornero, director and head researcher of the EMEDUS project in Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), presented the project at the Media & Learning Conference, held on 14 and 15 November in Brussels. Perez Tornero was invited by Media & Learning to present the European Media Literacy [...]
The European research project EMEDUS held a workshop on 17 October at the headquarters of the Institute of Political, Economic andSocial Studies (EURISPES) in Rome, with the aim of preparing work package 4 of the project dedicated to informal media education at the European level. José Manuel Pérez Tornero and Juan Francisco Martinez, director and [...]
The scientific journal on media education COMUNICAR released its issue no. 39 this week which is dedicated to the UNESCO curriculum and teacher training in media education. The introduction to the main theme, “Teacher Training in Media Education: Curriculum and International Experiences”, was prepared by José Manuel Pérez Tornero and Tayie Samy, director and partner [...]
Researchers at the Communication and Education Cabinet, Jose Manuel Perez Tornero and Cristina Pulido, published the article “The media bubble of children and adolescents,” about the media experience of children in Catalonia. The paper proposes the model of the bubble media to explain the use of media in people under 17 years: about every child [...]
The Communication and Education Cabinet participates in the conference “New Media and Communication of Justice in the Information Society”, taking place this week in Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Jose Manuel Perez Tornero and Santiago Tejedor Calvo, director and deputy director of the Cabinet, respectively, also Professor Pere Oriol Costa, from the same group of work [...]
As a means to identify problems and potential avenues for collaboration and understanding among actors in the field of humanitarian and development action, UNAOC submitted a survey to 96 development organizations in an effort to better understand the interaction between organizations of different faiths, as well as between secular and faith-inspired organizations. One reason for [...]
