Why does Digital Citizenship Matter?
In the digital age the notion of citizenship is being redefined in multiple ways as new possibilities for civic action appear in the interaction of users, techn...
Tag: literacies
Youth Voices from a Moving Community: A Workshop at Cambio Creativo
Last summer I had the opportunity of collaborating with Panamanian youths from Cambio Creativo in several activities that took place in Coco Solo and Buenavista...
Rethinking Youth Participation and Civic Engagment
This week, at the symposium “Digitally Connected: Towards a Global Community of Knowledge and Practice around Children, Youth, and Digital Media” organized by t...
Problematizing Media Education
Media practitioners and theorists have sustained for many years a debate between the analytical/critical and the technical/practical approach to teaching media ...
Towards a Broad and Inclusive Definition of Media Literacy
Media literacy definitions have been in flux during the 20th century. Scholars, policy makers, educators, and activists from Europe, Australia, and North Americ...
Debriefing Wikimania 2012 (part 2)
The theme of education was pretty pervasive during this year conference. Despite of the myths that surround Wikipedia in popular culture, and the fears of high ...
Got Literacy?
“Literacy” is one of the English language words that has become more contested and opaque due to its spawning across diverse fields. Attached to dif...