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Criterion 4. Critical Understanding

Critical Understanding

Critical Understanding is the most important aspect of the relationship between the individual and the media. How the individual interacts with the media is dictated by their Critical Understanding of both the content and its context. In order to understand and utilise the content, the user decodes it to make sense of its message. These [...]

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Imaginar la realidad. Ensayos sobre la representación de la realidad en el cine, la televisión y los nuevos medios (2010)

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The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam (2010)

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International Literacy Day 2011: Why Literacy Means Peace (2011)

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September 8 is International Literacy Day. Literacy isn’t just a problem of reading or writing. It’s the very foundation of peace. Discover how UNESCO’s Literacy Prize Winners are laying those foundations. Literacy provides the language and reasoning skills to improve one’s employability, empower women and socially disadvantaged groups, and understand values of tolerance, cohesion, and [...]

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Educational videos of the Communication and Education Cabinet

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Reflect on Communication and Education is the main goal of the audiovisual series created by Communication and Education Cabinet. More then a twenty experts from different areas and disciplines reflects on the challenges of edu- comnunicative stage.

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Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue. MILID Yearbook 2013

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  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 [...]

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Media Literacies: A Critical Introduction

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Media Literacies: A Critical Introduction traces the history of media literacy and grapples with the fresh challenges posed by the convergent media of the 21st century.  The book provides a much-needed guide to what it means to be literate in today’s media-saturated environment.Updates traditional models of media literacy by examining how digital media is utilized [...]

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The Handbook of Internet Studies

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The Handbook of Internet Studies brings together scholars from a variety of fields to explore the profound shift that has occurred in how we communicate and experience our world as we have moved from the industrial era into the age of digital media. Presents a wide range of original essays by established scholars in everything from [...]

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UNESCO will launch the Global Forum for Partnership on MIL (GFPMIL)

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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 [...]

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EMEDUS First Experts Panel Meeting provides public policy recommendations in Media Education

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The First Expert Panel Meeting of EMEDUS was held on 8 and 9 November on the campus of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). The demand for a media education curriculum in all European Union countries as well as the suggestion for more cooperation on the issue of media and information literacy have been the most [...]

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