“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.
In this session, “Deepfakes: Manipulating realities, misinformation, detection, legal and ethical matters, and professional responsibility,” we will explore the technology behind deep fakes and other digital forms of fake news. Invited speakers will discuss these topics, their ethical and legal implications, and how these technologies can be detected and uncovered. The theme for this call
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!
It’s almost three years since “fake news” became a major talking point and the problem seems more intractable than ever. The major online platforms are awash with conspiracy theories, disinformation, and extremist propaganda. The alarming implications are evident across the world. Disinformation about vaccines is linked to a global rise in preventable diseases. Ireland had
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.