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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
UNESCO MIL MILESTONES – MILID WEEK BARCELONA 2012
Representatives of member universities worked in delineation of actions on the basis of an earlier document prepared jointly. The plan contains a wide range that includes training, research and promotion of Milid and exchange between members of the chair. These include developing a web site for UNITWIN program and for a Clearinghouse; the annual publication [...]
The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) conference will be held in Los Ángeles, in july 12-13, 2013. Participants may find in this Conference a wide variety of resources from exhibitors, from long-standing media literacy experts, and from upstarts with new ideas. This Conference will be interactive, with attendees and presenters working closely together. [...]
Working in a research oriented to the media contribute to social understanding and addressing social inclusion are two of the main lines of action of UNESCO- UNAOC MILID UNITWIN according to Jose Manuel Pérez Tornero, director of the Communication and Education Research Group. The UAB professor was interviewed on 22 February by the program “The [...]
By reason of the complex nature of media literacy, and in order to establish the criteria by which it could be measured, a conceptual map had to be created. This would determine the dimensions of media literacy, their component parts, the factors which indicate them, and the indicators themselves. This conceptual map became the Framework, [...]
Availability refers to the type of media and tools an individual can access in any given context and how they are socially distributed. The assessment requires a description of the Media Availability situation in every country.
Environmental Factors provide an insight into the media literacy environment. If the factors are favourable, and media literacy has an important and considered position in national policy, it follows that media literacy levels will be high. This relationship can be demonstrated statistically, and does not exclude the possibility that, in environments largely hostile or neutral [...]
