By Barbara Fister. Facebook has been in the news a lot, lately. It’s getting flack for apparently violating a 2011 consent decree with the FTC by sharing data with device makers, including Chinese firms, one of which our intelligence agencies considers dangerous. More...
A Race Against Time to Preserve University Media Collections
By Lindsay McKenzie. Irreplaceable audio and video recordings from the 20th century are languishing in university collections, deteriorating. Can they be saved. More...
Bretagne : l’audiovisuel breton en prospection au Pays de Galles
Du 2 au 4 mai, une délégation de représentants de sociétés de production (Vivement Lundi!, Tita production, Lyo Production), de France 3 Bretagne, de l’Union des professionnels Films en Bretagne et de services de la Région a pris part au Celtic Media Festival, installé cette année à Llanelli, sur la côte galloise. Plus...
« Olympiades Magazine »
Afin de faire connaitre les Olympiades des Métiers, de rendre compte de la dynamique engagée et de l’organisation que suppose un tel évènement, les établissements participant à l’action éducative Reporters Normandie Jeunes Rédaction sur l’année 2018 se sont mobilisés. Plus...
Media literacy tops traditional education in school smoking-prevention efforts
Media literacy tops traditional education in school smoking-prevention efforts
Unattributed, Medical News Today, January 17, 2014
This is an interesting result, I think. "While traditional anti-smoking education focuses on health effects of smoking and resisting peer and other social influences, media literacy empowers participants to analyze and evaluate portrayals of tobacco use in media." Hit students with anti-smoking messages, and it's just one more bit of propaganda. More...
Emission radio : Les Missions Locales
Les Chemins pour l'emploi rediffusent cette semaine des chroniques consacrées aux Missions Locales qui permettront de mettre en valeur l’action de ces structures de proximité en faveur des jeunes de 16 à 25 ans. Plus...
Distinguishing Between Factual and Opinion Statements in the News
Distinguishing Between Factual and Opinion Statements in the News
Michael Barthel, Nami Sumida, Amy Mitchell, Jeffrey Gottfried, Pew, 2018/06/19
There's quite a bit of coverage online of this report that basicvally says that Americans are not good at distinguishing between news coverage and opinion. Here's Poynter, here's API, here's Knight. More...
Media doesn’t tell story of ASU consolidation
At the Board of Regents meeting on May 15, Albany State University was front and center for the University System of Georgia’s Campus Spotlight presentation on blockchain technology. Albany State students, faculty and staff were well-represented and impressed everyone in the room. More...
Music Settlement
Music Settlement
Transcript of a CNN interview with one of the students sued by the RIAA for sharing music files, Jesse Jordan. You can tell it's going to be one of those kinds of interviews when the interviewer makes a mistake in the first question. More...
Emission radio : PLIE et ARPE, deux dispositifs d’accompagnement renforcé vers l’emploi
Du 18 au 25 juin 2018, les Chemins pour l’emploi explorent le fonctionnement d’un plan local pour l’insertion et pour l’emploi, un PLIE, mis en oeuvre sur une agglomération et, en zone rurale, son équivalent baptisé ARPE pour Accompagnement Renforcé Pour l’Emploi. Plus...