Feb 12, 2011 I love editorial cartoons… they’re storytellers in a sound bite, with a wink and nod to profound societal changes and a snappy headline to boot. I use cartoons in media literacy deconstruction a lot, because like meaningful manga and graphic novels, they ‘cut to the chase’ with youth appeal and enable us to uncork deeper conversations in give and take style; a … [Read more...]
Youth in Egypt: Freedom, Phones- And A New World Media Order
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth Tagged With: #Jan25, citizen-journalism, David Horsey, digital citizenship, editorial cartoons, Egypt, Egypt revolution, Haiti benefit, headline news, Iconic Insta-Media, innovation, interdependence, journalism, media-literacy, mHealth, mobile for good, Mobile Youth, Mubarak, N2Y4, NEDA, One world, Shoe Throwers Index, six degrees of connective intelligence, social-media, storytellers, The past meets the future, twitter journalism, Uninstalling dictator, uprising, Ushahidi, using mobile to mobilize, Walt Handelsman, youth activism