By Diarmaid Mac Mathúna, Director-Agency at indiepics It’s getting harder and harder to spot fake images that have been generated by artificial intelligence systems. The images that the latest AI systems like Midjourney and DALL·E 2 are creating are very impressive. These photorealistic images are easily created using short, carefully engineered text prompts either directly
More than 100 students with ages ranging from 15 to 18 years from 50 different schools in Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands participated in a research project on media and democracy .
Safer Internet Day (SID) is an EU wide initiative to promote a safer internet for all users, especiallyyoung people. It is promoted in Ireland by the PDST Technology in Education and Webwise.Taking place on Tuesday February 7, there’s still time to get involved in Safer Internet Day 2023. For example, schools can: For parents, Webwise will
by Susan Moss, Head of Government Relations and Public Policy, Ireland
TikTok has launched a new Irish campaign to highlight the platform’s safety features to TikTokers and parents.
Assessing the impact of media literacy interventions is notoriously difficult, as it is hard to measure the acquisition of skills, particularly with no standard baseline to refer to. But, as increased digital media literacy becomes ever more necessary in the complex online environment, as a tool against disinformation and more, it is crucial that media
Authored by Maria Donde, EPRA Senior Vice-Chair & EMIL coordinator On 4 November 2022, Europe’s media regulators met to mark Global MIL week with a dedicated thematic session: Trust and News: (how) does News and Information Literacy work? The event was jointly organised by the EU expert group ERGA, and EMIL – the European network that brings together
Taking place from 24 to 28 October 2022 in alignment with the UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2022, The European Media Literacy Week 2022 is an initiative by the European Commission to underline the societal importance of media literacy and highlight existing media literacy initiatives and projects across the EU. Media literacy stakeholders, in particular those
How do you know what’s real or fake online? That is the question that Trend Micro Ireland want young people to answer in a two minute video as the annual youth video competition ‘What’s Your Story?’ is launched. The competition now in its 11th successful year in Ireland, invites young people to help solve a challenge that the