CHOOSING THE RIGHT ONLINE MEDIA LITERACY COURSE Media literacy education is key to the fight against misinformation and is an essential component of good information communication. It assists in developing critical thinking skills and teaches us how to evaluate media messages, letting us decide for ourselves the truth, falsity, and/or bias of media communications in
By Eileen Culloty Dr Eileen Culloty is a postdoctoral researcher at the DCU FuJo Institute where she works on countering disinformation as part of the EU Provenance project. As older people cocoon at home, digital technology is a vital source of connection. At the end of April, Age Action launched the Getting Started Kit, a set of seven guides
COVID-19 dominates a large part of our lives at the moment and we know that we all have a part to play in fighting the virus. In addition to the HSE recommendations (washing hands, physical distancing and respiratory etiquette), MLI members can also help to fight the virus of misinformation circulating in relation to COVID19.
1. Register for Safer Internet Day 2020 Let us know what you are planning to do to mark Safer Internet Day 2020, and we will send you online safety packs, including free wristbands for all of your participants. All schools, organisations, clubs, and community groups who are registered for #SID2020 will feature on the Webwise
The day started off with a ‘pre-conference’ mini-masterclass on strategic use of social media for campaigns was delivered by Craig Dwyer (For a Change) and Ronan Costello (Twitter). Key advice was the need for all organisation/NGOs to assess where they are on the scale of social media competency – from ‘Crawling’ to ‘Flying’ by asking
Safer Internet Day took place on February 5th 2019 and, with almost 145,000 participants, this year was the biggest and best one yet!
Philip Russell, Deputy Librarian at Tallaght Campus spoke to UNESCO at their Global Media & Information Literacy Feature Conference in Gothenburg on September 25th about Ireland’s approach to the development of media and information literacy.
The WLIC is an annual conference that regularly attracts 4,000 delegates from more than 100 countries across the world. This is the first time the WLIC has come to Ireland and it promises to be a week-long celebration of libraries and librarians. The Library Association of Ireland which represents all libraries and librarians in Ireland secured