Hello all, I would like to inform you about this event and I hope to see you there!
World Summits are held every three years and provide a forum for producers, broadcasters and regulators of media for children and other professionals and community leaders committed to the improvement of quality media for children.
The Summit has travelled around world cities since 1995 when it started in Melbourne, Australia. Since then it has been in London, Thessaloniki, Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg. Now it’s time for Scandinavia and Karlstad to host the World Summit.
The objectives of World Summit on Media for Children and Youth are:
- To achieve a greater understanding of developments in children’s media around the world.
- To raise the status of children’s media.
- To draw to the attention of key players in broadcasting the importance of issues relating to children.
- To promote a charter of guiding principles in children’s media.
- To ensure the provision of programs for children will be guaranteed as the communication revolution proceeds.
- To assist in the developing world to provide opportunities for quality children’s media in the future.
For more information about the World Summit click here
15.12.2009
Presentation Slides
I Session
II session
Workshops
Workshop I: Peer to peer media literacy (leaded by Nicole Müller)
Workshop II: Parents – how to reach them? (leaded by Lembitu Ling)
- “European approach to media literacy" Tapio Varis, Professor at the University of Tampere, Expert on media and digital literacy to the European Union
- "Media literacy - tool or a weapon?" Halliki Harro-Loit, Chair of Journalism, Associate Professor, Institute of Journalism and Communication, University of Tartu
II session
- The elderly online – Tiina Tambaum, Head of Knowledge Transfer Centre at
- Gaming culture - Sonja Kangas, researcher, Finnish Youth Research Network
- Youth Protection in Germany – Nicole Müller, Senior expert for youth protection, Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Culture
Workshops
Workshop I: Peer to peer media literacy (leaded by Nicole Müller)
- Nicole Müller: Media Scouts
- Online Youth Work in Germany
- Daniel Seitz (GER): Youth Portal www.jugendhilfe.beiuns.net
- Ismo Kiesiläinen(FIN) The Youth Voice Editorial Board
- Anu Ruhala (FIN) - Metka projects and methods
- Conclusions
Workshop II: Parents – how to reach them? (leaded by Lembitu Ling)
- Märt Kõrgmaa (EST): Parents - how to reach them?
- Elterntalk (GER)
- Anniina Lundvall (FIN): Best Online Practises from Finland
- Mika Mustikkamäki (FIN): Libraries as media educators
- Henning Fietze: ElternMedienLotse and Game Treff
- Conclusions
- Mädchen Haus Bremen (GER): Online councelling - Prospects and limits of virtual assitance
- Marko Forss (FIN): Virtual community policing
- Suvi Tuominen (FIN): Online Youth Work in Finland
- Christian Herrmann(GER): Watch Your Web
- Conclusions
4.12.2009
Programme - Challenges of the Digital World - Innovations of Media Literacy and Youth Work
Working venue: Tallink City Hotel (A.Laikmaa 5)
Working language: English
Print programme here
14.12.2009 MONDAY
Facilitator of the seminar is Lembitu Ling – IT expert, trainer
8:45 – 9:15
Registration
I Session
9:15 – 9:30
Welcome by Edgar Schlümmer, Director of the Estonian Youth Work Centre
9:30 – 10:10
“European approach to media literacy"
Tapio Varis, Professor at the University of Tampere, Expert on media and digital literacy to the European Union
10:10 – 10:50
"Media literacy - tool or a weapon?"
Halliki Harro-Loit, Chair of Journalism, Associate Professor, Institute of Journalism and Communication, University of Tartu
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
II session
11:30 – 12:00
Media literacy challenges in Estonia – Tiina Tambaum, Head of Knowledge Transfer Centre at Tallinn University, Ph. D. Student of Tallinn University
12:00 –12:30
Media literacy challenges in Finland - Sonja Kangas, researcher, Finnish Youth Research Network
12:30 – 13:00
Media literacy challenges in Germany – Nicole Müller, Senior expert for youth protection, Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Culture
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
III session
14:00 – 17:45
Workshops
Workshop I: Peer to peer media literacy (leaded by Nicole Müller)
Ideas and good practices will be shared by German delegation
Workshop II: Parents – how to reach them? (leaded by Lembitu Ling)
Ideas and good practices will shared by Estonian Informatics Centre, Certification Centre, Estonian Police Board
Workshop III: Online youth work (leaded by Suvi Tuominen)
Ideas and good practices will be shared by Mannerheim League for Child Welfare, The Youth Voice Editorial Board
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
17:45 – 18:00
Summary of the day
15.12.2009 TUESDAY
IV session
9:00 – 10:30
Presentations of the workshop results (each group 30 min.)
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
V session
11:00 – 12:00
Future trends and Innovations of the Digital World – Henrik Roonemaa, IT expert, Chief Editor of the journal "Digi"
12:00 – 12:30
Summary of the seminar
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
Working language: English
Print programme here
14.12.2009 MONDAY
Facilitator of the seminar is Lembitu Ling – IT expert, trainer
8:45 – 9:15
Registration
I Session
9:15 – 9:30
Welcome by Edgar Schlümmer, Director of the Estonian Youth Work Centre
9:30 – 10:10
“European approach to media literacy"
Tapio Varis, Professor at the University of Tampere, Expert on media and digital literacy to the European Union
10:10 – 10:50
"Media literacy - tool or a weapon?"
Halliki Harro-Loit, Chair of Journalism, Associate Professor, Institute of Journalism and Communication, University of Tartu
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
II session
11:30 – 12:00
Media literacy challenges in Estonia – Tiina Tambaum, Head of Knowledge Transfer Centre at Tallinn University, Ph. D. Student of Tallinn University
12:00 –12:30
Media literacy challenges in Finland - Sonja Kangas, researcher, Finnish Youth Research Network
12:30 – 13:00
Media literacy challenges in Germany – Nicole Müller, Senior expert for youth protection, Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Culture
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
III session
14:00 – 17:45
Workshops
Workshop I: Peer to peer media literacy (leaded by Nicole Müller)
Ideas and good practices will be shared by German delegation
Workshop II: Parents – how to reach them? (leaded by Lembitu Ling)
Ideas and good practices will shared by Estonian Informatics Centre, Certification Centre, Estonian Police Board
Workshop III: Online youth work (leaded by Suvi Tuominen)
Ideas and good practices will be shared by Mannerheim League for Child Welfare, The Youth Voice Editorial Board
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
17:45 – 18:00
Summary of the day
15.12.2009 TUESDAY
IV session
9:00 – 10:30
Presentations of the workshop results (each group 30 min.)
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
V session
11:00 – 12:00
Future trends and Innovations of the Digital World – Henrik Roonemaa, IT expert, Chief Editor of the journal "Digi"
12:00 – 12:30
Summary of the seminar
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
30.10.2009
Seminar description
OBJECTIVE
The main objective of the conference is to meet the new challenges of digital world and spread successful models of youth work from digital perspective.
MAIN THEMES
Challenges in our country and in EU
Active participation in media protection – parents, youth workers.
Innovative youth work in the net
Future trends (subcultures, industry trends)
KEY-QUESTIONS
How we can reach parents?
Who, what and where could be the best link created between “educators” and youngsters?
How to create link between youngsters and info we wants to hand over?
How to use maximum of peer to peer approach?
Which are the best practices for co-operation?
How to involve parents to active participation of media literacy?
How we can get contact with youngsters who don’t use Internet?
Youth work in the net – what, how and why?
How to use media on a right way?
Do the children see the same dangerous then we do?
MESSAGE and OUTCOME
Results to improve the practical work in all three countries
Recommendation to EU about peer to peer education
Information – e-mails, websites, results of surveys.
The main objective of the conference is to meet the new challenges of digital world and spread successful models of youth work from digital perspective.
MAIN THEMES
Challenges in our country and in EU
Active participation in media protection – parents, youth workers.
Innovative youth work in the net
Future trends (subcultures, industry trends)
KEY-QUESTIONS
How we can reach parents?
Who, what and where could be the best link created between “educators” and youngsters?
How to create link between youngsters and info we wants to hand over?
How to use maximum of peer to peer approach?
Which are the best practices for co-operation?
How to involve parents to active participation of media literacy?
How we can get contact with youngsters who don’t use Internet?
Youth work in the net – what, how and why?
How to use media on a right way?
Do the children see the same dangerous then we do?
MESSAGE and OUTCOME
Results to improve the practical work in all three countries
Recommendation to EU about peer to peer education
Information – e-mails, websites, results of surveys.
20.10.2009
Finnis Project Descriptions
KEYNOTES:
Tapio Varis
Professor Tapio Varis will give a lecture on "European approach to media literacy".
Sonja Kangas
Sonja Kangas will present the gaming culture as well as phenomenon’s in the gaming culture associated to media education and youth work. What does the future look like for games and which phenomenon’s grab attention in Finland?
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WORKING GROUPS:
Marko Fors: Police profile on IRC galleria
For the past 13 months Marko has been working on the most popular social networking site amongst youth in Finland, www.irc-galleria.net. Marko has a visible police profile on the site and the profile offers youngsters the opportunity to approach the police in new and easy ways, in their own way. The profiles main role is to do preventive police work: teach, advice and enlighten youth about police related issues. The profile takes part in conversations on the sites different communities and receives tips every week of different types of crimes
Mika Mustikkamäki: Tampere City Library and media practices
Tampere city library is engaged in a multipartite, ESF-funded project that roughly translates into "Spaces and Contents of Information Society". There's a media literacy working group within the project that looks specifically into the ways that public libraries advance media education. Tampere city library is developing new ways of improving people's media literacy skills, having both the adolescent and adult population in mind. In addition they are mapping the best practices of media education cases in libraries to further improve the work in the field.
Suvi Tuominen: Mannerheim League of Child Welfare’s peer support system in Finland
Peer education: how youth can teach each other media skills both offline and online. The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare coordinates peer support system in Finland. Every year approximately 14 000 pupils of age 14-16 are trained to tell younger pupils about drugs, bullying and media skills, for example. In addition, we have trained about 40 online peer students, who organize 2-3 chats in IRC-Galleria every month.
Ismo Kiesiläinen: The Youth Voice Editorial Board
The Youth Voice Editorial Board is a youth participation and media education for young people willing to influence and change the youth's image in media. The Youth Voice Editorial Board works as a news agency delivering material and stories to different media. The aim of this pioneer project is to get young people to produce media content into the mainstream media. The project activates and enables young people to have public discussions and debates with other people, experts and politicians in media topical issues important to them. The teens are trained to write articles and produce TV programs with the help of professional and leading journalists.
The idea of the Youth Voice Editorial Board originated in Youth's Open Forums in Helsinki in 2005. The Open Forums are discussion arenas for young people and politicians of the city of Helsinki organized by The Voice of the Young in Helsinki- campaign. In 2005 the theme of the Open Forums was media critic 'TV-me and virtual you - critically about media'. The young criticized the tiny visibility they have in mainstream media respect to the other age-groups and matters concerning them.
Helsinki city Youth Department established, together with an active group of young people, a planning group that worked for to make it possible to run a youth editorial board. The Youth Voice project started in the autumn 2006 and it collaborates with YLE (Finland's national public service broadcasting company), Helsingin Sanomat (the biggest newspaper in Finland) and Dynamoid OY (the enterprise that owns IRC-galleria). The project is a part of The Voice of the Young -campaign, a joint youth participation project of the Helsinki City Education and Youth Department that develops democratic operational culture at schools and youth work. The Editorial Board gets its financing from Youth Department, Helsingin Sanomat Foundation and Ministry of Education.
The activities of the Youth Editorial Board are various: the board members produce TV programs for YLE, write articles for Helsingin Sanomat and produce also surveys in IRG-galleria (a huge web based community which has 400,000 active users) about issues concerning the whole society. The subject of the programs have been youth's mental health and depression, the lack of politics at Finnish schools and youth's heavy drinking habits.
The Youth Voice Editorial Board consists of 50 media and activists, between 14-20-year old, which are all different personalities, and have various and also contradictory opinions about the society. The desire to make a difference is what brings these teens together in the field of media. The YVEB tries not to show the opinions of a small isolated group, but bring up the opinions of Finland's youth. When in the working phase, editorial board divides its members to several different small groups which all work on their own fields of media e.g. Internet and television. Still major decisions concerning The Youth Voice Editorial Board are made together, by the members themselves.
The strength of this pioneer project is that it combines the desire to influence the society with media education and activate participation in an all new way. The Youth Voice Editorial Board provides its members, with all the training, experience and possibilities, to form a network of young activists which can make a difference now and tomorrow.
Anu Ruhala: Metka projects & methods
1. Supporting the identity of adolescent immigrants
Media Education Center Metka working in Myrsky- (Storm) project
Media Education Center Metka has been involved in Finnish Culture Foundation’s nationwide major project Myrsky that runs from 2008 to 2011. Myrsky – project aims to support adolescent aged 13 to 17 who are at the risk of exclusion by having a positive impact on their wellbeing and the process of maturation. This project aspires to offer meaningful activity and new content to life using the means of art and other cultural aspects supervised by professional artists.
The core idea of Myrsky-project is tangible hands-on activity. Adolescent are working and creating themselves while professional artists are supporting them through the process. The goal is to give adolescents encouraging examples, hands-on activities and through these to offer experience of being successful.
The project aims to reach those adolescent that has not been reached by traditional means and who at the risk of alienation.
Adolescent that belong to this risk group are for example:
• Adolescent who have in their own life or in their vicinity intoxicant addiction,
mental health problems, abuse or criminal activity
• Those who are victims of harassment at school and/or are extremely shy or
socially withdrawn
• Adolescent who belong to a minority, are disabled or have special needs
• Immigrants
• Those who are living in custody
In some case the whole community or part of country is at risk of exclusion.
”The Story of Me”-project as a part of rehabilitation of immigrant adolescent
”The Story of Me” –project offers a possibility to tell and experience stories. The crucial point is to offer a change to review one’s own culture and identity by the means of for example drama. It also aims to give an opportunity of self expression within own environment through media. The project offers a change to learn and practice skills of information gathering and through this process becoming an active member of community, who is able to have an impact of the society.
The plan is as well to bring film education as one of the methods of rehabilitation of immigrant adolescents. The core idea are the needs and thought of adolescents. These adolescents plan and produce their own stories to film while the tutors act in the role of the mentor
Digital Story Telling
Digital Story Telling –method is one of best digital learning methods at nowadays. In that method the aim is produce short audiovisual stories about your own life. Working in groups is the simplest and best way to do digital stories. The original aim has been that in working groups combines both art and own stories. The main idea is also that young people can tell their own stories to other young people and share their own ideas and thoughts with other people by variegated methods. That Digital Story Telling- method is based on still-pictures, multipliers voice or music.
The main aims are to get value to young peoples’ stories, young immigrants can get successful experiences, authorizes young immigrants self-worth and improve their media literacy.
The idea is tell and share your own stories with other people. In that method you start with script and pictures then you choose some foolproof and easily available edit program for example Movie Maker or iMovie.
The habits and instruments of The Story of Me – project
Media Education Center Metka has produced own Metkula - environment to audiovisual storytelling. You can find that from Metka`s homepage (www.mediametka.fi). Metkula is one of best environments with immigrants, because you do not need use language when you are doing your stories.
In that project we use several methods and instruments. For example Digital Story Telling, video diary, documentation, animation, voice-expression, drama pedagogy, Metkula.
Anniina Lundvall: Media education for parents - best practises
Different cases and methods from Finland
Tapio Varis
Professor Tapio Varis will give a lecture on "European approach to media literacy".
Sonja Kangas
Sonja Kangas will present the gaming culture as well as phenomenon’s in the gaming culture associated to media education and youth work. What does the future look like for games and which phenomenon’s grab attention in Finland?
---
WORKING GROUPS:
Marko Fors: Police profile on IRC galleria
For the past 13 months Marko has been working on the most popular social networking site amongst youth in Finland, www.irc-galleria.net. Marko has a visible police profile on the site and the profile offers youngsters the opportunity to approach the police in new and easy ways, in their own way. The profiles main role is to do preventive police work: teach, advice and enlighten youth about police related issues. The profile takes part in conversations on the sites different communities and receives tips every week of different types of crimes
Mika Mustikkamäki: Tampere City Library and media practices
Tampere city library is engaged in a multipartite, ESF-funded project that roughly translates into "Spaces and Contents of Information Society". There's a media literacy working group within the project that looks specifically into the ways that public libraries advance media education. Tampere city library is developing new ways of improving people's media literacy skills, having both the adolescent and adult population in mind. In addition they are mapping the best practices of media education cases in libraries to further improve the work in the field.
Suvi Tuominen: Mannerheim League of Child Welfare’s peer support system in Finland
Peer education: how youth can teach each other media skills both offline and online. The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare coordinates peer support system in Finland. Every year approximately 14 000 pupils of age 14-16 are trained to tell younger pupils about drugs, bullying and media skills, for example. In addition, we have trained about 40 online peer students, who organize 2-3 chats in IRC-Galleria every month.
Ismo Kiesiläinen: The Youth Voice Editorial Board
The Youth Voice Editorial Board is a youth participation and media education for young people willing to influence and change the youth's image in media. The Youth Voice Editorial Board works as a news agency delivering material and stories to different media. The aim of this pioneer project is to get young people to produce media content into the mainstream media. The project activates and enables young people to have public discussions and debates with other people, experts and politicians in media topical issues important to them. The teens are trained to write articles and produce TV programs with the help of professional and leading journalists.
The idea of the Youth Voice Editorial Board originated in Youth's Open Forums in Helsinki in 2005. The Open Forums are discussion arenas for young people and politicians of the city of Helsinki organized by The Voice of the Young in Helsinki- campaign. In 2005 the theme of the Open Forums was media critic 'TV-me and virtual you - critically about media'. The young criticized the tiny visibility they have in mainstream media respect to the other age-groups and matters concerning them.
Helsinki city Youth Department established, together with an active group of young people, a planning group that worked for to make it possible to run a youth editorial board. The Youth Voice project started in the autumn 2006 and it collaborates with YLE (Finland's national public service broadcasting company), Helsingin Sanomat (the biggest newspaper in Finland) and Dynamoid OY (the enterprise that owns IRC-galleria). The project is a part of The Voice of the Young -campaign, a joint youth participation project of the Helsinki City Education and Youth Department that develops democratic operational culture at schools and youth work. The Editorial Board gets its financing from Youth Department, Helsingin Sanomat Foundation and Ministry of Education.
The activities of the Youth Editorial Board are various: the board members produce TV programs for YLE, write articles for Helsingin Sanomat and produce also surveys in IRG-galleria (a huge web based community which has 400,000 active users) about issues concerning the whole society. The subject of the programs have been youth's mental health and depression, the lack of politics at Finnish schools and youth's heavy drinking habits.
The Youth Voice Editorial Board consists of 50 media and activists, between 14-20-year old, which are all different personalities, and have various and also contradictory opinions about the society. The desire to make a difference is what brings these teens together in the field of media. The YVEB tries not to show the opinions of a small isolated group, but bring up the opinions of Finland's youth. When in the working phase, editorial board divides its members to several different small groups which all work on their own fields of media e.g. Internet and television. Still major decisions concerning The Youth Voice Editorial Board are made together, by the members themselves.
The strength of this pioneer project is that it combines the desire to influence the society with media education and activate participation in an all new way. The Youth Voice Editorial Board provides its members, with all the training, experience and possibilities, to form a network of young activists which can make a difference now and tomorrow.
Anu Ruhala: Metka projects & methods
1. Supporting the identity of adolescent immigrants
Media Education Center Metka working in Myrsky- (Storm) project
Media Education Center Metka has been involved in Finnish Culture Foundation’s nationwide major project Myrsky that runs from 2008 to 2011. Myrsky – project aims to support adolescent aged 13 to 17 who are at the risk of exclusion by having a positive impact on their wellbeing and the process of maturation. This project aspires to offer meaningful activity and new content to life using the means of art and other cultural aspects supervised by professional artists.
The core idea of Myrsky-project is tangible hands-on activity. Adolescent are working and creating themselves while professional artists are supporting them through the process. The goal is to give adolescents encouraging examples, hands-on activities and through these to offer experience of being successful.
The project aims to reach those adolescent that has not been reached by traditional means and who at the risk of alienation.
Adolescent that belong to this risk group are for example:
• Adolescent who have in their own life or in their vicinity intoxicant addiction,
mental health problems, abuse or criminal activity
• Those who are victims of harassment at school and/or are extremely shy or
socially withdrawn
• Adolescent who belong to a minority, are disabled or have special needs
• Immigrants
• Those who are living in custody
In some case the whole community or part of country is at risk of exclusion.
”The Story of Me”-project as a part of rehabilitation of immigrant adolescent
”The Story of Me” –project offers a possibility to tell and experience stories. The crucial point is to offer a change to review one’s own culture and identity by the means of for example drama. It also aims to give an opportunity of self expression within own environment through media. The project offers a change to learn and practice skills of information gathering and through this process becoming an active member of community, who is able to have an impact of the society.
The plan is as well to bring film education as one of the methods of rehabilitation of immigrant adolescents. The core idea are the needs and thought of adolescents. These adolescents plan and produce their own stories to film while the tutors act in the role of the mentor
Digital Story Telling
Digital Story Telling –method is one of best digital learning methods at nowadays. In that method the aim is produce short audiovisual stories about your own life. Working in groups is the simplest and best way to do digital stories. The original aim has been that in working groups combines both art and own stories. The main idea is also that young people can tell their own stories to other young people and share their own ideas and thoughts with other people by variegated methods. That Digital Story Telling- method is based on still-pictures, multipliers voice or music.
The main aims are to get value to young peoples’ stories, young immigrants can get successful experiences, authorizes young immigrants self-worth and improve their media literacy.
The idea is tell and share your own stories with other people. In that method you start with script and pictures then you choose some foolproof and easily available edit program for example Movie Maker or iMovie.
The habits and instruments of The Story of Me – project
Media Education Center Metka has produced own Metkula - environment to audiovisual storytelling. You can find that from Metka`s homepage (www.mediametka.fi). Metkula is one of best environments with immigrants, because you do not need use language when you are doing your stories.
In that project we use several methods and instruments. For example Digital Story Telling, video diary, documentation, animation, voice-expression, drama pedagogy, Metkula.
Anniina Lundvall: Media education for parents - best practises
Different cases and methods from Finland
Finnish Participants
Finnish participants
1. Mr Marko Forss, Police Officer, Helsinki Downtown Police Department
Marko Forss is a police officer with the Helsinki Downtown Police Department. He specializes in virtual community policing and investigating crimes committed under 18 year olds.
2. Mr Mika Mustikkamäki, Project Planner and Coordinator, Tampere City Library
Mika Mustikkamäki works at Tampere city library. Currently he’s working as a project planner, responsible for coordinating the media literacy working group within their European Social Fund (ESF) -funded project, as well as coordinating the Tampere area media education network. He is currently finishing his MA degree in information studies and interactive media.
3. Ms Suvi Tuominen, Youth Work Coordinator at Mannerheim League for Child Welfare
At Mannerheim League of Child Welfare Suvi Tuominen’s work mainly includes media education and online youth work.
4. Mrs Anu Ruhala Instructor, Bachelor of Education, Media Education Center Metka
5. Ms Anniina Lundvall, Coordinator, Bachelor of Media Design, The Finnish Society on Media Education
6. Mr Ismo Kiesiläinen, Youth worker and producer, Bachelor of Media Design
7. Ms Sonja Kangas, Researcher, Finnish Youth Research Network
Sonja Kangas is an independent researcher at the Finnish Youth Research Network. Currently she is working on a book which focuses on Japanese, Finnish and Korean digital media pioneers. Sonja has published books like Technologizing Youth and Mariosofia - the Culture of Electronic Games as well as several articles on digital games and youth cultures. She has also been in the jury of e.g. Nordic Game Program, MindTrek and Live2011 competition. She runs Finland’s chapter of the International Game Developers Association IGDA.
8. Mr. Tapio Varis
Professor of Professional Education, with particular reference to global learning environments at the University of Tampere, Finland, Research Centre for Vocational Education, and UNESCO Chair in global e-Learning with applications to multiple domains. Principal research associate of UNESCO-UNEVOC. Governing Board Member of UNESCO-IITE. Acting President of Global University System (GUS). Former Rector of the University for Peace in Costa Rica. Expert on media and digital literacy to the European Union. Communication and Media Scholar at the University of Helsinki and the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. and the University of Lapland, Finland, Published over 200 scientific contributions. Visiting Professor and Lecturer in many countries in Europe, North and South America, and other regions of the world.
-Member of the Media Literacy Expert Group of the European Commission
-Member of the Digital Literacy Expert Group of the European Commission
-Principal researcher of the EU study on Media Literacy (2008)
-Principal researcher the the EU study on Media literacy assessment (2009)
1. Mr Marko Forss, Police Officer, Helsinki Downtown Police Department
Marko Forss is a police officer with the Helsinki Downtown Police Department. He specializes in virtual community policing and investigating crimes committed under 18 year olds.
2. Mr Mika Mustikkamäki, Project Planner and Coordinator, Tampere City Library
Mika Mustikkamäki works at Tampere city library. Currently he’s working as a project planner, responsible for coordinating the media literacy working group within their European Social Fund (ESF) -funded project, as well as coordinating the Tampere area media education network. He is currently finishing his MA degree in information studies and interactive media.
3. Ms Suvi Tuominen, Youth Work Coordinator at Mannerheim League for Child Welfare
At Mannerheim League of Child Welfare Suvi Tuominen’s work mainly includes media education and online youth work.
4. Mrs Anu Ruhala Instructor, Bachelor of Education, Media Education Center Metka
5. Ms Anniina Lundvall, Coordinator, Bachelor of Media Design, The Finnish Society on Media Education
6. Mr Ismo Kiesiläinen, Youth worker and producer, Bachelor of Media Design
7. Ms Sonja Kangas, Researcher, Finnish Youth Research Network
Sonja Kangas is an independent researcher at the Finnish Youth Research Network. Currently she is working on a book which focuses on Japanese, Finnish and Korean digital media pioneers. Sonja has published books like Technologizing Youth and Mariosofia - the Culture of Electronic Games as well as several articles on digital games and youth cultures. She has also been in the jury of e.g. Nordic Game Program, MindTrek and Live2011 competition. She runs Finland’s chapter of the International Game Developers Association IGDA.
8. Mr. Tapio Varis
Professor of Professional Education, with particular reference to global learning environments at the University of Tampere, Finland, Research Centre for Vocational Education, and UNESCO Chair in global e-Learning with applications to multiple domains. Principal research associate of UNESCO-UNEVOC. Governing Board Member of UNESCO-IITE. Acting President of Global University System (GUS). Former Rector of the University for Peace in Costa Rica. Expert on media and digital literacy to the European Union. Communication and Media Scholar at the University of Helsinki and the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. and the University of Lapland, Finland, Published over 200 scientific contributions. Visiting Professor and Lecturer in many countries in Europe, North and South America, and other regions of the world.
-Member of the Media Literacy Expert Group of the European Commission
-Member of the Digital Literacy Expert Group of the European Commission
-Principal researcher of the EU study on Media Literacy (2008)
-Principal researcher the the EU study on Media literacy assessment (2009)
1.9.2009
Helsinki Media Literacy 2008
Last year Finnish Society on Media Education organized the seminar in Helsinki. The old blog can be found in here. See you in December!
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