By Rebecca Lennon, Regulatory Affairs Advisor at Ofcom. As a response to the Covid-19 outbreak, Ofcom has been looking at how people are getting news and information about the crisis. We have been carrying out an online Covid-19 news and information survey of 2,000 UK participants aged 16 and over each week since the beginning of the lockdown.
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
Laura Millar is a Canadian archival consultant, author and editor. She is the author of A Matter of Facts: The Value of Evidence in an Information Age, published in 2019 by ALA Neal Schuman. In 1922, not long after the Spanish flu ceased its deadly rampage, the British economist and Director of the Bank of England Sir
For several weeks now, the world has rightly been consumed with talk of COVID-19. For Facebook, it has been no different. Globally, our entire company is focused on doing our bit to tackle the coronavirus outbreak. We are approaching this in four ways. For several weeks now, the world has rightly been consumed with talk
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.
This article is an edited reproduction of a Twitter thread from @marklittlenews, posted on Sunday 22 March 2020. Mark Little is a Journalist and entrepreneur. He is CEO and co-founder of Kinzen and Founder of Storyful. By now, we each know our role in fighting the Coronavirus. We have some sense of personal agency. But many smart people
“We need a vaccine against misinformation” Dr. Mike Ryan, head of WHO’s health emergencies program. The coronavirus outbreak has sparked what the World Health Organization is calling an “infodemic”. The Be Media Smart campaign was developed by members of Media Literacy Ireland to help people tell the difference between reliable and accurate information and deliberately false or misleading
The Society for Pedagogic, lnformation and Media (Gesellschaft für Pädagogik, Information und Medien e.V.; GPI) in 2020 for the 25th time awards the Comenius-EduMedia-Awards for digital educational media. We invite you to participate in the 2020 Comenius-EduMedia-Award anniversary-contest. Please find all information at www.gpi-online.eu. Please submit your contributions for the Comenius-EduMedia-contest via the Comenius-online-registration form (www.