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EDMO releases report on researcher access to platform data

A report by the European Digital Media Observatory’s (EDMO) Working Group on Platform-to-Researcher Data Access was delivered to the European Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová during EDMO’s annual conference on June 13. The report on Platform-to-Researcher Data Access includes a draft Code of Conduct on how platforms can share data with independent researchers while protecting

EU publishes strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation

By Stanislav Matějka, European Affairs Coordinator, The Office of the Slovak Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission. On the 16 June 2022, the European Commission presented a new strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation, its flagship project to fight the spread of harmful disinformation online. The Code comes after months of negotiations and was prepared in cooperation with its

Libraries hosting new edition of The Glassroom Exhibition

What happens when we increasingly rely on social media and the web for nearly all our information? What information do we see, and what do we miss? How do we know if a picture or a tweet is genuine or truthful? And what can we do if we can’t be sure? The Glass Room: Misinformation

Press Pass Student Journalists of the Year 2022 announced

Press Pass is a Transition Year student journalism and news literacy programme which has been run by NewsBrands Ireland since 2012. The free programme, which has been completed by 110,000 students, seeks to teach the fundamentals of journalism writing, improve news literacy and critical thinking skills, and encourage students to analyse content and form opinions

Call for international entries for Childnet Film Competition

Childnet, the UK-based charity working to make the internet a great and safe place for children and young people, are inviting young people who attend school outside of the UK to showcase their creative skills and online safety knowledge by entering the International category of the Childnet Film Competition.Now in its 13th year, the Childnet

Ofcom publishes suite of media literacy research

Making Sense of Media is Ofcom’s programme of work to help improve the online skills, knowledge and understanding of UK adults and children. Ofcom’s research programme is designed to provide a wide-ranging evidence base of adults’ and children’s understanding and use of media. It underpins Ofcoms own policy development, as well as providing the media

New EDMO taskforce on disinformation about war in Ukraine

A new taskforce has been established to focus on disinformation about the war in Ukraine in EU and EEA countries, as well as the western Balkans. The taskforce will be collecting and sorting material and approaches such as fact-checking, investigations, rapid analysis, and research on disinformation campaigns, as well as specific media literacy initiatives. The

New publication: Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication An A–Z Guide

Published by Routledge as part of a series of Studies in Environmental Communication and Media, this book draws on a broad spectrum of environmental communications and related cross-disciplinary literature to help students and scholars grasp the interconnecting key concepts within this ever-expanding field of study. Aligning climate change and environmental learning through media and communications,