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MediaForum has been thinking recently about the overall impact that digital media is having in our lives.
There’s probably no simple answer to this. There’s probably going to be a whole series of complex paradoxical factors coming into play. However, in light of the fact that why we teach media literacy affects how we teach media literacy, its a pretty interesting thought experiment.
For example, the emancipating and democratising potential (more…)
As published on Monday 19th May in the Irish Independent and on RTÉ Primetime Investigates (Teen Bullying) - A new report on Cyberbullying with research by The Anti - Bullying Centre, Trinity College, Dublin will be available here soon.
Last Wedneday the 14th of May the Communications Minister Eamon Ryan announced the publication of the Broadcasting Bill 2008.
The new Bill supersedes the Broadcasting Bill 2006 and updates current Radio and TV broadcasting legislation in light of modern technological advances and the EU’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD, Dec 2007)
Creative youth media facilitators and artists wanted
We are looking for professionals in particular in the area of; digital film making, photography, web designing, animation, game building, music recording and producing. Experience with Apple Mac is essential. (more…)
Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. Jenkins recently developed a white paper on the future of media literacy education for the MacArthur Foundation, which is leading to a three year project to develop curricular materials to help teachers and parents better prepare young people for full participation in contemporary culture. He is one of the principal investigators for The Education Arcade, a consortium of educators and business leaders working to promote the educational use of computer and video games.
Henry writes:
This is the last installment of my series on the white paper which we wrote for the MacArthur Foundation on participatory culture and media literacy. If you want to read the whole paper, check it out here. If you want to learn more about the work that the MacArthur Foundation is doing on youth and digital learning, you can follow their blog — which regularly features comments from some of the country’s leading educators and experts on youth media.
Moving Worlds: Cinemas of Migration
The Forum on Migration and Communications (FOMACS) at DIT is organising a 8-week film series called ‘Moving Worlds: Cinemas of Migration’ from 22 May – 10 July.
The festival has been able to get some of the directors, producers, and scriptwriters of the films being screened to present their films, and some of the screenings are accompanied by a workshop on issues around filmmaking, immigration, and the ethics and politics of representation.
Admission is free and open to all. To reserve a place for the screenings/workshops, contact the series coordinator, Dr. Rashmi Sawhney, Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, DIT. Email or phone 01 4023108
BCI ANNOUNCES DTT APPLICANT DETAILS
The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has today announced details of applications received for the three national Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) multiplex contracts, which were advertised by the Commission on March 7th last. A total of nine applications were received from three consortia by the 12 noon deadline. Details of the applicant groups are as follows:
| Proposed Service name | Number of contracts applied for | Public Contact Name | Details |
| Boxer DTT Limited | 3 | Deirdre Murphy | t. 01 432 5905 e. deirdre.murphy@boxer.ie |
| Easy TV | 3 | Conor Hayes / Ray Collins | t. 01 208 4898 / 01 245 8423 e. conor.hayes@rte.ie/ rcollins@lgi.com |
| OneVision | 3 | Rory Martin | t. 085 1744358 e. rmartin@eircom.ie /td |
via Educase Connect.
As international culture and commerce become increasingly reliant on visual communications, visual literacy has developed into an essential skill for 21st-century college graduates. With advancements in technology and the digitizing of information, digital literacy has also grown in importance. Digital visual literacy (DVL) is the ability to critically analyze digital visual materials, create effective visual communications, and make judgments and decisions using visual representations of thoughts and ideas. These skills, which actively engage our cognitive processing of visual images, have evolved from concepts at the intersection of a range of established disciplines.
In this free May 6 EDUCAUSE Live! web seminar, Digital Visual Literacy: Interdisciplinary Skills for the 21st-Century Learner, presenters John Gibson, Glendale Community College, Oris Friesen, Mesa Community College, and Florence Martin, University of North Carolina–Wilmington, will discuss this exciting new literacy, showcase the free materials developed under a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education grant, and share recent feedback from instructors who have integrated these pioneering instructional modules into their courses.
Those unable to attend may wish to visit the archives after the event or browse related EDUCAUSE resources on Visual Literacy in Higher Education, Prisms Around Student Learning: Information Literacy, IT Fluency, and Media Literacy, Net Generation Learner, Information Literacy and Fluency.
MediaForum’s CEO, Dave Dunn, has received an exclusive Ray Murphy Fund award for Leadership Development.
The award recognises Dave’s position as an emerging leader in the non-profit sector and supports his further leadership growth. MediaForum is using the award to support an intensive one-to-one professional development mentorship scheme with Kevin O’Kelly. Kevin has worked in personal and professional development education and mentoring for 25 years.
The Ray Murphy Fund will make grants to build leadership within the community sector for the next 10 years, 2008-2017. The grants will be for a maximum of €4,00 each and five grants will be awarded per year. The fund is envisaged to assist people managing organisations within the community and voluntary sector access leadership education or training.
The Ray Murphy Fund is run by the Community Foundation for Ireland and honors the memory of Ray Murphy The Mott Foundation, and formerly of Atlantic Philanthropies, to acknowledge the support he gave to both the philanthropic sector and to the Community Foundation itself during his lifetime.
“Ray Murphy was always interested in building strong leadership in the community and voluntary sector. He realised how challenging it was for organisations to raise money for their day to day operations let alone trying to find funding for training or having time for reflection. Therefore, I’m delighted that the board of the Community Foundation are recognising Ray by establishing this fund. The Ray Murphy fund will really contribute to strengthening the community and voluntary sector for many years to come,â€
said Tina Roche, CEO, The Community Foundation.
For more information about CFI and Ray Murphy Fund see www.communityfoundation.ie