Populism, Media and Education. Challenging discrimination in contemporary digital societies

Media Literacy and Human Rights: Education for Sustainable Societies

This paper builds on the collaborative work of media researchers and professionals as well as education decision makers and teachers that met in Graz, 57 December 2007, at the invitation of the Council of Europe. The purpose of the workshop was to determine the validity of media education and to verify that human rights could be an added value to such an education. Three main questions were deb...

Digital Media Player Controls Supporting Music Education

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Information Societies and Digital Divides

The book argues ICT are part of the set of goods and services that determine quality of life, social inequality and the chances for economic development. Therefore understanding the digital divide demands a broader discussion of the place of ICT within each society and in the international system. The author argues against the perspectives that either isolates ICT from other basic social goods ...

Degrees of Digital Division: Reconsidering Digital Inequalities and Contemporary Higher Education

Whilst many authors are now confident to dismiss the notion of the digital divide, this paper argues that inequalities in ICT use in contemporary higher education are of growing rather than diminishing importance. In particular, it argues that there is an urgent need for the higher education community to develop more sophisticated understandings of the nature of the digital divisions that exist...

Challenging education in virtual worlds