Media literacy education is gaining recognition around the world, and international partnerships and cooperation stand to benefit the field globally.  From Latin America to Azerbaijan, educators recognize that media literacy is essential for life in a global, media-driven culture.  See Connections/November 2019.

Celebrate Media Literacy Week!  Join UNESCO's Global Alliance for Partnerships in Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL) and the National Association for Media Literacy Association in this recognition for the advancement of media literacy globally.

Censorship and Appropriateness: A Negotiation Calling for Media Literacy

A new article by CML's Tessa Jolls examines how new community norms, driven through social media,  call for new ways of looking at how student expression should be encouraged and guided on school campuses.  This article was published in: Marketing, Communication, Technology and Innovation in MIL Cities, edited by Drs. Mitsuru Yanaze and Felipe Chibas Ortiz (University of Sao Paulo Press, 2019).  ISBN 9 7885572 052290   This book addresses life in MIL Cities, which are smart cities that integrate social responsibilities and goals of human development with new technologies such as blockchain and AI.  Contact chibas_f@yahoo.es for more information.

Dr. Bobbie Eisenstock, Journalism Faculty from California State University Northridge and winner of the 2019 Elizabeth Thoman Service Award given by NAMLE, designed this Worksheet for her news literacy journalism class and tested it with her students.  The Worksheet utilizes CML’s Core Concepts/Key Questions for Deconstruction and provides Guiding Questions related to news and disinformation/misinformation:  a handy way to provide the foundational skills of media literacy while addressing news.