Celik Digital Symposium on
Media & Information Literacy Across Nation
3 Days . 7 Speakers . 500 Participants
Event Starts In
Mon, 3 Oct - WED, 5 Oct , 2022
Background
Information literacy emphasizes the ability to locate and navigate information. Literacy itself is an evolving concept that is essential for every citizen, especially in today’s borderless society. In line with UNESCO’s Information for All Program (IFAP) Strategic Plan, the component of information literacy comprises a set of knowledge, attitude and skills that leads to the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, use, produce and communicate information, media content and knowledge in creative, responsible and ethical ways in order to participate and engage in personal, professional and societal activities. Today, information is available on various digital platforms and it is very important for every citizen to be confident and competent in using these technologies for information, communication and basic problem solving in all aspects of life.
Aims
Participants
Event Schedules
Talk Synopsis
MON, 3 OCT 2022 | 11:00 AM
Speaker
Professor Jun Sakamoto
Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
Dr Kyoko Murakami
Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
Synopsis of talk:
1) The status of disinformation and conspiracy theory issues and research
2) Movement and practice of the Smart News Media Institute
3) Attention to news literacy and the establishment of news literacy study groups
4) Digital citizenship education movement and news and media literacy education practices
MON, 3 OCT 2022 | 03:00 PM
Speaker
Mr. Ray Ting-Chun Wang
Synopsis of talk: With the ongoing issues of information literacy and the excitement about the establishment of the Metaverse, the media environment is set to be disrupted once again. Despite the optimism around social media and its potential to make the dissemination and sharing of information faster and more transparent, the audience is now not only divided among many different platforms but also divided among many different communities within these platforms. How both individuals and organizations can unite around a common understanding for navigating and assessing the exponential amounts of information available to people on the internet is a key challenge moving forward. This talk will focus on the current and future challenges of information sharing across different platforms, and how we should leverage both online and offline interactions to help educate and unite people around building better information literacy for all.
MON, 3 OCT 2022 | 04:00 PM
Addressing disinformation and propaganda in media literacy
Speaker
Dr Taufiqur Rahman
Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Synopsis of talk: The Internet, especially social media has become an information free market, so the ability to carefully assess information is becoming increasingly important for the digital community to have. The higher the intensity of our interaction in the virtual space also makes the variety of information disseminated through the internet become more diverse. We can find many positive and educative contents in the virtual worlds, but we can also find problematic contents and even many of them can be categorized as disinformation that is deliberately created and disseminated for certain interests. Smart digital citizens should be able to recognize the types of information that need to be watched and researched more closely before commenting or disseminating contents through our social media accounts. In this discussion we will learn to identify types of these problematic contents and how to carefully address disinformation and propaganda in the virtual world.
TUE, 4 OCT 2022 | 03:00 PM
Critical Thinking in Media and Information Literacy
Speaker
Prof. Dr. Ali Gunes
Ankara Medipol University, Turkey
Synopsis of talk: TBA
TUE, 4 OCT 2022 | 04:00 PM
Embedding Media Literacy in the School Curriculum
Speaker
Professor Julian McDougall
Bournemouth University, UK
Synopsis of talk: TBA
WED, 5 OCT 2022 | 09:00 AM
Critical and Acritical Media Literacy’s Parallels and Differences
Speaker
Dr. Nolan Higdon
University of California, Santa Cruz, US
Synopsis of talk: TBA
WED, 5 OCT 2022 | 09:00 AM
Media and Religious Literacy as Tools for Building Leadership Capacity
Speaker
Ms Soraya Ahyaudin
AMCLI Director and Assistant Director, Learning Design and Programs
Megan Sweas
Editor and Director of Communications at the Center
Rev. Dr. Najuma Smith-Pollard
Assistant Director of Community and Public Engagement
WED, 12 OCT 2022 | 9:00 AM
Workshop: Information and Media Literacy Towards a Digitally Competent Society
Speaker
Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC)
Synopsis of talk: TBA
Key Speakers
Mr. Ray Ting-Chun Wang
Mr. Ray Ting-Chun Wang is a lecturer at the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication of Thammasat University. He is currently studying a Ph.D in Sustainable Leadership at the College of Management at Mahidol University. He has been doing teaching and research on media companies for the past 5 years, with a focus on studying sustainable management of media companies, and how to train future managers of media companies through various active learning activities and techniques. He has organized student-led service activities, conducted role-plays in his classes, and is very focused on finding new and creative ways to objectively evaluate the student learning from these activities.
Dr Taufiqur Rahman
Dr Taufiqur Rahman is a lecturer in Communication Department, UMY. He finished Bachelor in Communication Science in UGM (1998), Master of Arts in Communication Management, University of Technology, Sydney Australia (2003) and finished PhD in Media and Communication Studies, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia. He has published several research works in the journals including Contextualizing jihad and mainstream Muslim identity in Indonesia: The case of Republika Online, The trajectory of the discourse of jihad in Indonesia, Conviviality and new imagined communities: Competing imagination of Muslim ummah in Islamic online media in Indonesia, Jihad, Muslims’ identity and the transformation of religious authority in Indonesia and The role of the internet.
PROFESSOR JUN SAKAMOTO
Jun Sakamoto is a professor at Faculty of Lifelong learning and Career studies, Hosei University. He is also a Director of library Media Specialist Training Course, Director of Japan Society for the Study of Basic Education and Literacies(JASBEL), Director of iEARN Japan (JEARN), representative of Fukushima ESD Consortium, and President of Asia-Pacific Media and Information Literacy Education Centre (AMILEC)
Professor Julian McDougall
Julian McDougall is Professor in Media and Education, Head of the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice and Principal Fellow of Advance HE. He runs the Professional Doctorate (Ed D) in Creative and Media Education at Bournemouth University and convenes the annual International Media Education Summit. He is co-editor of the Journal of Media Literacy Education and Routledge Research in Media Literacy and Education. In the fields of education, media literacy, online learning, media, communications and cultural studies, he is author / editor of a wide range of books, articles, chapters and research reports and has provided numerous research projects for research councils, media industry, charities and non-profit organisations. Recently he has provided media literacy research for The British Council, e-nurture and the School Library Association, UK Government DCMS, BBC Media Action, ITV, Global Challenges Research Fund, European Commission and the US Embassy in London.
Professor Julian McDougall
Julian McDougall is Professor in Media and Education, Head of the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice and Principal Fellow of Advance HE. He runs the Professional Doctorate (Ed D) in Creative and Media Education at Bournemouth University and convenes the annual International Media Education Summit. He is co-editor of the Journal of Media Literacy Education and Routledge Research in Media Literacy and Education. In the fields of education, media literacy, online learning, media, communications and cultural studies, he is author / editor of a wide range of books, articles, chapters and research reports and has provided numerous research projects for research councils, media industry, charities and non-profit organisations. Recently he has provided media literacy research for The British Council, e-nurture and the School Library Association, UK Government DCMS, BBC Media Action, ITV, Global Challenges Research Fund, European Commission and the US Embassy in London.
