African Centre
for Media & Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) in collaboration with Gabinete de
Comunicación y Educación (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona), Barcelona Spain
last month signed an agreement to set up a Media, Information and Digital Literacy
Observatory (MIDLO) project in Nigeria.
Why
is media, information and digital literacy so important?
Students awaken each morning to
a diet of scandal, violence, tragic events and controversies. News coverage now
emphasizes the most "entertaining" of stories. The lines between
reality and make-believe blur as entertainment becomes news, news becomes
entertainment.
The disturbing trends outlined
above suggest that media and information literacy -- the ability to review,
critique and digest information created and disseminated by media of various
kinds -- is an increasingly vital citizenship skill for life in a modern
democratic society.
Overall project aim
The
project aims at running a Centre – the Media and Information Literary
Observatory – in Abuja, Nigeria, as part of the global Media and
Information Literacy Observatory (MILION) developed by
the
Communication and Education Department of
the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
(UAB).
MIDLO
Nigeria will be dedicated to a new vision of media, information and literacy that will provide teachers, students and young journalists
and reporters around the African continent with the skills required for
effective participation in development activities, using creative media and
creating opportunities for their increased positive presence in and
understanding of the media.
MIDLO
will be a youth media, information and digital literacy platform designed not only to
teach young people the impact of media and information on their lives, but to
enable them produce their own media as well as analyse and disseminate information to
give them a voice.
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