Forum members - organisation
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Media Literacy Research Center,
Institute of Communication Studies,
Commuication University Of ChinaMy research interests include media literacy, new media, international communication.
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European Commission
Born in Genoa (Italy) in 1966. He works at the European Commission since 1995. He is responsible for the Media Literacy initiative and the Media Programme Pilot Projects within the DG Information Society and Media. He spent almost all his professional life in the media or dealing with media related issues both in the private sector (Super Channel ltd.) and at the European Commission where he has been working for more than 12 years on different policy aspects of the audio-visual media. He holds a degree in Economics of the University of Genoa.
Matteo Zacchetti
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School of Art Media & Design
University of Wales, NewportFilmmaker and educator
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United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (AoC). The AoC seeks to reduce tensions across cultural divides that threaten to inflame existing political conflicts or trigger new ones. Working with its global network of government partners, the AoC promotes policies and initiatives aimed at improving relations between diverse cultural groups. It also works at the grassroots level in society, promoting innovative projects that build trust, reconciliation and mutual respect among diverse communities. The AoC works in four program areas to support such projects. These areas are: youth, media, education, and migration. Media Literacy is a main media-education-youth area of work of the AoC.
Jordi Torrent
After obtaining a degree in Philosophy at the University of Barcelona, Jordi followed graduate studies in Paris at the Sorbonne University (Film Esthetics) and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Anthropology Filmmaking).
From 1990 to 2006 he was a Media Consultant for the Department of Education of New York City. There he created a Media Literacy Education program that was implemented at over twenty five NYC schools, as well as conducted media education workshops for educators and parents. Jordi was co-director of Media: Overseas Conversations, a series of annual conferences on media, youth and education held in NYC from 2004 to 2008. In addition, he has produced, written and directed feature films, documentaries, and TV commercials.
Currently he is Project Manager of Media Literacy Education initiatives of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and teaches a graduate course on International Media and Cinema at Fordham University, New York.
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BBC World Service Radio
I am a Senior Broadcast Journalists reporting, producing and presenting on news and current affairs programmes on BBC World Service Radio, based in London.
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De Montfort University
Sue Thomas is Professor of New Media in the Institute of Creative Technologies and the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She leads the Transliteracy Research Group with Kate Pullinger, and supervises a number of PhD students working in new media related areas. She also manages social media projects including the NLab Network, CreativeCoffee Club, and Amplified Leicester, a city-wide experiment in social media. Her research interests include transliteracy, social media, and transdisciplinarity. Her most recent book is the cyberspace travelogue 'Hello World: travels in virtuality' (2004). She is currently writing 'Nature and Cyberspace', a study of the relationships between cyberspace and the natural world. http://www.suethomas.net/ Twitter: @suethomas
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Turkish ICT Authority
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AFRICAN YOUTH FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT
www.aypad.comam a activist enbark on various form of activisim and
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National Institute of Education
I am a lecturer at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. I am interested in digital literacies, particularly on the use of digital media for and in learning.
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"Consejo Nacional de Televisión".
Chilean Television RegulatorFemale, Chilean nationality.
Psychologist (Leiden University - The Netherlands).
Areas of interest: research;social projects; international cooperation.
