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African Women's Media Center is a project of the International Women's Media Foundation. The center is the only continent-wide organization working with and on behalf of African women in the media. The AWMC has created a wide range of programs for women journalists throughout Africa with the goal of bringing the voices of African women more prominently into the media.
Alliance for a Media Literate Europe "brings together a diverse alliance of schools, universities, companies, individuals and other formal and non-formal educational organizations, to create a pan-European non-profit network organization that will be a key force in bringing media literacy education to all pupils and students in Europe, their parents, their teachers, and others who care about youth."
International Women's Media Foundation The IWMF's mission is to strengthen the role of women in the news media around the world, based on the belief that no press is truly free unless women share an equal voice.
MAGIC: Media Activities and Good Ideas by, with and for Children. This extraordinary international website, part of UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), shows how far America has to go in understanding and dealing with media issues around children. It's described as " UNICEF's response to the Oslo Challenge of 1999, which called on media professionals, educators, governments, organizations, parents, children and young people themselves to recognize the enormous potential of media to make the world a better place for children." Click on material for children, parents, teachers, governments, media, the private sector; a database of media projects by, with and for children; a discussion group, and much more.
The UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen "The overall point of departure for the Clearinghouse's efforts with respect to children and media violence is the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The aim of the Clearinghouse is to increase awareness and knowledge about children and media violence, not least in view of the newer channels of communication such as satellite television and Internet, thereby providing a basis for relevant policy-making and contributing to a constructive public debate. Another goal is to point out initiatives aiming to enhance children's competence as users of the media. Moreover, it is hoped that the Clearinghouse's work will stimulate further research on children and the media."
Australia
Australian
Centre for the Moving Image
Australian Children's Television Foundation The ACTF is" national non-profit organization that creates innovative, entertaining and educational television programs for children. The ACTF believes that entertaining media can be an effective teaching and learning tool." The website has extensive lesson plans and other teaching resources based on their programs. ACTF also has created the "educational multi-media construction tool-set Kahootz to be used in schools by primary and secondary students across a range of key learning areas. The tool-set gives children the power to create complex narratives, puzzles and presentations in a three dimensional world. Teacher tools and classroom examples of what can be achieved with Kahootz can be found at the Kahootz website."
Australian
Teachers Of Media ATOM VIC is an independent, non-profit,
professional association promoting the study of Media and supporting
Media teachers.
Australian
Teachers of Media, Queensland, Inc.
Movie
ratings under the Australian ratings system
Bangladesh
UnnayanNet is a "non political and non profit organisation. The platform actively works to give the ownership of modern information and technology to the majority people particularly to the rural poor by solving the digital divide and poverty alleviation."
Canada
Alberta
Association for Media Awareness
Association
for Media Literacy
Canadian
Association of Media Education Organizations (CAMEO)
Center
for Youth and Media Studies (CYMS)
Jesuit
Communication Project (JCP)
Media
Awareness Network An outstanding website (in both English and
French). "The Media Awareness Network offers practical support for
media education in the home, school and community and provides Canadians
and others with information and 'food for thought' on our fast-evolving
media culture." Recommended: the newsletter from
renowned media educator Barry Duncan. "Barry's Bulletin" on media
education resources is available from
www. media-awareness.ca Type in Barry in the search box for
current and archived Bulletins.
Ontario
Media Literacy Homepage
England
(see United Kingdom)
France
Center
de Liaison de L'Enseignement et des Moyens d'Information (CLEMI)
Germany
GMK
(Media Education)
IFAK
Institut fura ngewandte Kindermedienforschung
JFF
(Media Education) Institut für Medienpädagogik in Forschung
und Praxis
MPFS
Medienpädagogischer Forschungsverbund Südwest
PROMT
"The multi-media server PROMT
supports productive media work. It provides content, opportunities
for work, communication and publication for productive work with
media throughout the Federal Republic of Germany."
Great
Britain (see United Kingdom)
Hungary
Hungarian
Moving Image and Media Education Association This site "has
been developed to help students and teachers deal with media work
in classrooms and to prove an opportunity for communication. In
this English version, we provide you some information on Media Education
in the Hungarian National Curriculum."
India
Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) An association which aims to provide a forum for women in media professions to share information and resources, exchange ideas, promote media awareness and ethics, and work for gender equality and justice within the Indian media and society.
Italy
Associazione
italianna per l'educazione ai media e alla comunicazione
New
Zealand
Movie
ratings under the New Zealand ratings system.
Nigeria
Youth Media & Communication Initiative (YMCI) is actively engaged in developing the involvement of children and youth in the media. It equips children and youth with media and communication skills on child rights, gender, HIV/AIDS, environment, democracy and development.
Russia
Russian
Association for Film & Media Education (Media Education
in Russia). An excellent site maintained by professor Dr. Alexander
Fedorov, president of Russian Association for Film & Media Education.
For Microsoft Word documents on the topic of Media Education and Media Literacy in Russia:
Media Review has some of the same articles as above, plus another entitled "Violence on the Russian & American Media Screen and Youth Audience."
Research
Group “School Media Library”
Spain
Grupo
Comunicar
Sweden
Nordic
Information Center for Media and Communication Research (NORDICOM)
"Housed at GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY, NORDICOM's overriding goal
is to make the media and communication research efforts undertaken
in the Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and
Sweden - known. Nordicom also documents media trends in the Nordic
Countries. The production of media statistics forms the core of
this service. Nordicom operates the Unesco International Clearinghouse
on Children and Violence on the Screen, whose aim is to keep users
abreast of current research findings."
The ALLMEDIA project to develop the Alliance for a Media Literate Europe is a Swedish initiative from city of Karlstad.
United
Kingdom
British
Film Institute
Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, part of the School of Culture, Language and Communications at the Institute of Education, University of London
Digital
Media Education Centre, Devon, England. Links media education
with the cinema-going experience.
MediaEd:
the UK Media Education Website . One of the top three media
education sites in the English language. Excellent material and
links.
MediaKnowAll:
A Web Guide for Media Students. References to the acronyms
of specific British curricula can look confusing, but just click
a little and you'll find great material. For example, choose "GCSE,"
then pick any one of the topic areas in the drop-down menu of GCSE
Topics, such as Advertising, Genre, Narratives, Representation,
TV News, and more.
Movie
ratings under the U.K rating system
Thank you to Prof. Dr. Alexander Fedorov of the Taganrog State Pedagogical
Institute (Russia) for most of the links on this page
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