UNESCO – Global Student Square

VOICES: “ZAPMIL” video project quizzes teens on today’s media literacy issues

November 7, 2018
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If you could give your phone a name, what would it be? Which social media platform do you hate most? What's the first thing you do when you wake up every day? Student journalists at the Global Media and Information Literacy Week Youth Forum launched an innovative pop-up video project to find the answers.

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Speakers at media literacy conference discuss impact of cartoons, empathy in film

October 26, 2018
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#GlobalMILWeek, Art, Education, Ex.change, On Media, Past Projects, Top Stories

In societies where traditional organizations have lost trust with the public, cartoons can be surprisingly effective as an alternate way of telling news.

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Migrant film festival, Jordan media literacy program and Canada’s “Media Smarts” receive UNESCO awards

October 24, 2018
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A project that helped refugees tell their stories in film, a literacy education program in one of the world’s most media-challenged nations and a “pioneer” in media literacy in Canada were honored today by UNESCO.

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UNESCO launches global media literacy week with concern over disinformation, elections and “lost generation” of youth

October 24, 2018
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#GlobalMILWeek, Cities, Ex.change, News, On Media, Past Projects, Top Stories

UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy Week kicked off today with keynote speakers, students and citizens talking about a world at war between truth and disinformation, changing everything from education and governance to the shape of tomorrow’s cities.

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