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Media Literacy in a Crisis
This month, Pontydysgu is in charge of social media for the Infodemics project. Aimed at youth and young people, the resources produced by the Infodemics team aim to provide tools ... -
What is Mastodon?
I've had a Mastodon account for three or four years. But, like others I guess, I have never really used it. But now the impending collapse of Twitter - socially ... -
Media Resilience Across Generations
SMaRT-EU’s Final Conference is coming! The event will gather academics, practitioners and end-users to present and discuss the project results. Save the date in your agenda: 👉 December 10th at ... -
The Hidden Costs of Requiring Accounts
This dilemma has been bugging me for a while. I want access to our communities and tools to be as open as possible but I need to keep out the ... -
#SMILED21 Twitter conference programme
Almost time for #SMILED21 here's the programme... pic.twitter.com/2XwrbL8jo3 — Angela Karadog (@angegerrard) June 14, 2021 -
#SMILED21 Call for Tweeters
**UPDATE! Deadline extended to 3rd June** Fifteen minutes, fifteen Tweets. Pontydysgu are hosting a Twitter Conference - Social Media and Information Literacy in Education - on Thursday 17th June 2021 ... -
Living in an Algorithmic World
This video is from Danah Boyd’s opening keynote for the re:publica 18 conference. Although it is an hour long it is well worth watching. Danah says "Algorithmic technologies that rely ... -
Trust and Recommender Systems
One of my favourite social network applications (if it can be called that) is Paper.li. Paper.li is not really a social network but an aggregater, running across your twitter contacts ... -
The Green Slime Neoliberal Lens
Like many of us I guess, I am disillusioned that the rich promise of social networks for informal learning and the sharing of knowledge has been overwhelmed by endless drive ... -
Online disinhibition and the ethics of researching groups on Facebook
There seems to be a whole spate of papers, blogs and reports published lately around MOOCs, Learning Analytics and the use of Labour Market Information. One possibly reason is that ...
