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.
A vision of media literacy that is inclusive, active and hopeful – but also realistic, informed by scientific and social understanding of emerging technologies, how we use them and the corporations that foist them on us: that was the vision on offer at the third annual conference of the Centre for Critical Media Literacy in
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
Now, more than ever, it is critical that people use accurate and reliable information when making informed decisions – whether those decisions relate to health, politics, economics or any other aspect of their lives.