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.
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
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
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