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from August 29, 2009 to May 16, 2009

In this weekly Media Literacy Digest, media expert George Siemens shares pointers and resources to help you make sense of how new media technologies are changing the world around you. Inside this Media Literacy digest: How Do Organizations Respond To Emerging Technologies? - Businesses, schools, and universities are ... read more

The reason for which I started MasterNewMedia was to help others take greater control of their lives. I wanted to be meaningful to others by helping them discover how to effectively leverage the uniquely powerful communication opportunities offered by the Internet. In full honesty, I really ... read more

In this issue of MasterNewMedia weekly media literacy digest, open education advocate George Siemens, explores issues in technology and education that directly influence the way we work and think about our future. Inside this Media Literacy Digest: Location - The prominence of mobile devices is raising the profile ... read more

In this weekly media literacy digest, open education advocate George Siemens shares key media and technology stories that directly affect your media, your work and and society as a whole. In this Media Literacy Digest: More Enterprise Social Software Strategies: Issues to consider in your enterprise’s internal ... read more

How important is going to be the role of the "newsmaster" in the future? Is this network middle layer of human filterers and scanners actually emerging? What about serious business talk: Could the newsmastering practice ever become a professionally sustainable role? And what is its value? ... read more

In this weekly media literacy digest, educational technologies expert George Siemens takes you to breaking news and stories that directly affect media, education and society as a whole. Inside this Media Literacy Digest: Future Knowledge Ecosystems: The Next Twenty Years of Technology-Led Economic Development - A report ... read more

George Siemens' Media Literacy Digest is back, like every week, to bring news, analysis and opinion on key changes and facts happening at the cross-road between technology, education, media and society. A quick guide to maintain perspective and a critical eye on the key changes taking ... read more

Media literacy is a critical skill that aims to increase the understanding of how mass media produce meaning and construct reality. In a world where knowledge is increasingly distributed and technological developments are shaping new educational paradigms, the ability to filter relevant information is not to ... read more

As new and old media pervade so many aspects of our lives, it is very important that everyone learns to decode and interpret messages and images and to ask critical questions about who is creating them and for what purpose. Inside this Media Literacy Digest: Addressing Problems ... read more

Emerging technologies, the global economy and the Internet are changing what it means to be literate. As digital communications transform the quantity, range and speed of information and exchanges in our lives, increasingly, the ability to interpret and create media becomes a form of literacy as ... read more

Media literacy is about asking pertinent questions about what's there, and noticing what's not there. And it's the instinct to question what lies behind media productions - the motives, the money, the values and the ownership - and to be aware of how these factors influence ... read more

Media Literacy moves from recognising and comprehending information to the higher order critical thinking skills such as questioning, analysing and evaluating that information. (Source: OFcom) Inside this Media Literacy digest: Attention and Distraction - Educators and trainers face competition for attention from mobile devices and social networking services. Social ... read more

Link popularity is essentially based on the number of incoming links to a specific web site or web page; the more the number of incoming links, the higher the link popularity. But link popularity is both a measure and a process. As a process it strives to ... read more

Media Literacy: Activities for independent communication via media in an information society, and the technologies and knowledge that support these activities (Source: digitalstorytelling) Inside this Media Literacy digest: Foreverism - Foreverism encompasses the many ways that consumers and businesses are embracing conversations, relationships, and products that are never ... read more

Media literacy is the ability to analyze and evaluate the media to which we are exposed; it is a complex subject. Although most of us suffer from sensory over-stimulation from media, most do not have the time, or do not take the time, to analyze the ... read more

If you think your website is under a Google penalization because you suddenly disappeared from Google search results, you can file a reconsideration request to the Google team. In this video, the Google Webmaster Help Center shares some official tips to file your reconsideration request correctly ... read more

"Media literacy is an expanded conceptualization of literacy. By transforming the process of media consumption into an active and critical process, people gain greater awareness of the potential for misrepresentation and manipulation, and understand the role of mass media and participatory media in constructing views of ... read more

Media literacy is an expanded information and communication skill that is responsive to the changing nature of information in our society. It addresses the skills students need to be taught in school, the competencies citizens must have as we consume information in our homes and living ... read more

Media literacy builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well as essential skills of inquiry and self-expression necessary for citizens of a democracy. (Source: Center for Media Literacy) Inside this Media Literacy Digest: CCK08: Socialization As Information Object - ...an overview of the CCk08 The ... read more