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NEWS ARCHIVE 2006
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News Archive: This page includes press clippings archived for reference. Please note that some links may have expired over time.
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And the winners are......this year, the famous one minutes festival started at the ketelhuis in amsterdam, one minute videos were shown for 3 days on 3 screens showing over 6 hours of the best one minute videos from 50 countries worldwide.
Students Produce Movies With Cell Phones. The cameras capture the young man walking down the stairs, reciting a monologue about the three things people should know about him: His favorite movie is "Gone with the Wind," he loves roller coasters and he hates when people don't take him seriously.The shot is complicated and takes several attempts to perfect. But there's no big camera equipment, no expert sound system and no reels of film to capture the moment. Instead, everyone involved, from the three cameramen and the sound guy to the extras, is producing the miniature movie with -- and for -- cell phones. Read more Young German filmmakers networking on the Internet. Today the buzz is all about You Tube, but in fact other offers have also come MediaSnackers Digest November 2006. The 6th monthly MediaSnackers digest for people interested in how young people consume and create media across the glob is now online. On the MediaSnackers training calendar for the next two months: (1) an afternoon seminar for BBC Bristol; (2) our 2 day youth professional training course for Creative Partnerships (South West); (3) the 1 day training for the youth board members of V (an independent charity launched to champion youth volunteering in England). Our next podcast will take us to the magic half century number PLUS we're very excited to announce our plans to go 2D. If you have any short video content (under 3mins) relating to youth media projects, are involved in any aspects of youth media or are a young person producing digital content (audio/visual) and want to discuss submitting pieces for consideration then please get in touch at mediasnackers.com Talkin' 'Bout My (Digital) Generation. Last week, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced a $50 million, five-year initiative to explore the ways in which digital technologies are changing how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. Standing in front of a room of educators, policy makers, grantees, and members of the press, Jonathan Fanton, MacArthur's President, explained that "this is the first generation to grow up digital." Seeking to better understand this digital generation, MacArthur plans on funding research and innovative projects to achieve this goal. Highlighting the need to assess how digital media is transforming youth in both formal and informal learning environments, MacArthur presented some staggering statistics: young people today spend an average of almost 6.5 hours a day with media; 87% of U.S. teens aged 12-17 use the Internet; nearly 75% of young people aged 8-18 use instant messaging. Read More Teens Set New Rules of Engagement in the Age of Social Media For today's teen, friendships are developed in areas beyond the school walls or their neighborhoods. Email and social networking sites such as MySpace(R), Sconex, and Facebook(TM) allow young people to expand their social connections by contacting and becoming friends with people who they have not necessarily met in person. Alloy Media + Marketing and Harris Interactive(R) findings from a collaborative study offer an emerging picture of what friendship means to today's youth. New technologies shift means of communication across this digital generation, as teens come to define their closest circles by those they are connected with both online and offline. Read More. Students Produce Alternative Fuels Film. With a growing concern over climate change and the use of fossil fuels,it's essential that future mechanics learn how to work with alternative fuels. Students at the Automotive High School converted a diesel car to run on grease from their cafeteria. They also produced a 60 second video about their effort. Read More. Teenagers around the world are selective in their media use habits. Sulake Corporation, the creator and developer of Habbo, one the world's fastest growing online destinations for teenagers, has published the largest global youth study conducted from Finland. The research, which was carried out in 22 countries, consisted of respondents from the Habbo Internet online community. The results include various findings on, e.g., media usage, music preferences and subcultures. More than 42,000 teenagers took part in the research. Read the results Violence through the eyes of teenagers. "What does violence look like, what does violence feel like? And how do we show it in a minute?" These questions are on the minds of 21 teenagers from Albania this week. They have met in the Marubi Film School to produce OneMinuteJr films on different forms of violence against children. Supported by UNICEF Albania, the teenagers and their trainers spent five days writing, filming and editing their stories. Read Article. Storytelling takes a new form in North-East Delhi "I never thought I would be able to make a film" said 16-year-old Farzana Malik. She and other young girls from Seelampur and Ballimaran ICT Centers, in North-East Delhi recently participated in a six-day digital storytelling workshop. Vote online for the people's prize. Theoneminutesjr team thought it would a good idea to give you a chance to vote for your favourite video of 2006. you can only vote on videos which are competing this year, and not on older videos. starting from october 1st, you The Blast. The Blast on BBC TWO programmes showcase videos, of every type, made by young people like you. Submit your films to Blast now and you could be seeing your very own film on BBC TWO! There is no better showcase for young talent than that. Learn More. Eye See' photo project. To mark the one-year anniversary of northern Pakistan's devastating earthquake, UNICEF has launched the 'Eye See II' photo project, a special initiative to highlight the unique experiences and needs of children in the quake's aftermath. Read full story. UTH - a fantastic community for youth. The www.uthtv.com web site provides a fantastic community for youth to upload original video, Motionbox. As more and more electronic devices (such as cell phones and the like) have the ability to captures images and short video clips, there are a number of new applications designed to transfer media to the Internet. Motionbox is one such application, and users can use it to place their own videos online and perform basic edits and such. Visitors can upload their videos, and also look at what other users have placed online for the inquisitive public. Motionbox is compatible with all operating system. Learn More. Reel Perspectives. Seven Short Films About the Middle East Conflict Through the lenses of Palestinian, Israeli & Canadian Youth. These films are the result of the two-week program called Peace it Together which took place primarily at GIFTS, where youth from Israel, the Palestinian territories and Canada shared their histories, ideas, hopes and struggles with one another before collaborating on film projects about the Middle East conflict. View Films. Chicago's first ever "open screen" for youth media-makers. The shows kick off at midnight on August 12th at Facets Multi-Media, 1517 W. Fullerton, as part of the MediaBridge Youth Fes t. From 12 – 3 a.m., films made by MediaBridge participants and youth from around Chicago will be projected onto the big screen. Read More. Young people 'demonised by media' (BBC) Young people feel "demonised" by politicians and the media, a report by two youth charities suggests. Filmmaking in High Schools. (Caucus) A very intriguing filmmaking education program offered by the American Film Institute's Screen Education project is described in an article that should interest many media educators. The article, by Mitch Aiken, "Filmmaking Becomes a Regular Course in Public High Schools," just appeared in "The Caucus Journal," the journal published quarterly by The Caucus for Television Producers, Writers, and Directors. The short, 3-page article is available online (the entire summer 2006 issue of the journal, actually) on the caucus's website. Acehnese children show documentaries. (The Jakarta Post) Thirty-three Acehnese children have created 14 documentary films A new annual festival for San Antonio is born -- out of a bittersweet story. Josiah Neundorf's film work took him to several film festivals, including the well-known Sundance Festival in Utah. Now an international festival for young media artists will be established in San Antonio in his honor. Read Full Article. See also, related article with video and audio. The 30th Annual Young People's Film & Video Festival. A free event produced through the Northwest Film Center's Young Filmmakers Program, will be held on Sunday, July 16th, at 2pm at the Whitsell Auditorium (1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR). The Festival celebrates artistic excellence, technical achievement and originality in live action, documentary and animated films and videos made by kids, schools and youth organizations in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho and Utah. The program will run approximately 90 minutes. Twenty pieces were selected for this year's program, 10 of which are from the local Portland/Vancouver area. Winners will be on hand to receive public recognition, certificates of achievement and praise from family, friends and the community. Read More. Youth achievement: Making waves. (YO Magazine) A web site devised by young people for young people and a talent show run by an 18-year-old are just two of this year's Wavemakers Award winners. Set up in 2005, the awards scheme recognises the achievements of young people within the areas of social care, education and health and is split into three categories: under-12s, 13 to 19s and organisation-led initiatives. Details about all 24 winners can be found on the Wavemakers web site. Read Full Article JUNIOR 8 & UNICEF's Voices of Youth. For the first time in G8 history a children's forum will be incorporated into the official program at this year's G8 summit in St. Petersburg. The event called the "Junior 8" meeting will be held in Pushkin, near St. Petersburg from 7 to 18 July 2006. The main highlight of this event will be that G8 children will get the chance to share their views directly with the world's leaders on 16 July 2006. Learn More GIFTS 11th Annual EyeLens Film, Video and Animation Festival. Be sure to check out this year’s winning films, if you haven’t already! This year’s judges were faced with an astounding job of deciding among the best of the best student films produced in 2005. Congratulations to the winners and all who were nominated, as many categories were loaded with exceptional films. To watch the films and peruse the list of winners, visit the EyeLens 2006 online festiva. Teaching kids to make their own films. Film Street is a newly launched, free interactive website for children aged six to nine. It is designed to help them learn about filmmaking, with practical guidance for adults too. Filmstreet has been commissioned by Culture Online. Salzburg OneMinute JR. Workshop. A total of 19 youngsters (aged 12-20) from Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary and Taiwan participated in Theoneminutesjr Workshop in salzburg (may 28th -june 1st). the topic 'expedition: future' inspired the participants to think about the meaning of time. When is the future exactly? Is it later today, tomorrow, next week or in a hundred years? Who will you be in the future? A business man stuck in the daily routine of the working system, a sick woman lying in the hospital, or the person who changes the way news in broadcasted in the world? Others asked themselves what the future would look like. Will there still be traditions in a world where technology is getting more and more important? Some youngsters decided to create a one minute video on other topics such as child rights, communication, gambling and school. All the videos were screened for the first time during the award ceremony of the netdays festival in salzburg with a big audience, are part of our international competition and available online at www.theoneminutesjr.org Native-youth films in SIFF spotlight. It's called "fly filmmaking" - or making films on the fly. Put another way, Kids make a film on child labour. On the occasion of the anti-child labour day on Monday, CNN-IBN met two young filmmakers, who have captured the agonies of child labour in their film. Peace It Together. A project with The Creative Peace Network. From August 4th to 21st, 32 Israeli, Palestinian and Canadian youth will gather in British Columbia for a transformative summer program. After meeting and greeting each other in Vancouver, the youth will gather at The Gulf Islands Film & Television School. Once here, they will work in small groups to create original films about their lives, hopes and their fears. Read More. Media projects: Behind The Camera. London (UK) is to invest £6m in media projects that provide opportunities for disadvantaged young people. The project works with young people aged 11 to 25, offering courses and workshops in film production, operating, cameras, editing, scriptwriting, drawing and animation. The young people come from a local estate in west London or are referred by youth offending teams, refugee groups or outreach workers. Schools also get involved and children from one east London class came in recently to take part in a news day, and had to put a live news programme together. Read More The Voices for Change International Summer School. The summer school takes place in Wales (UK) from 15th-21st August 2006, will see 150 young people from Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas converge in Europe's only sustainable conference centre to share skills, build new networks, and learn about a wide variety of themes and methods of putting their ideas into practice. Read More. Young journalists eligible for print workshop in Colombia.Starting June 1, young Latin American journalists can apply for a workshop on how to write for newspapers. The Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI) is organizing the workshop for the fifth consecutive year. Participants will analyze the kinds of print journalism available today, mastering the correct use of Spanish, and studying each newspaper as well as its design. Read More. 9 Year Old Given Best Script Award. It was like magic! 9-year-old film director, producer and script writer Anshul Khosla of Mumbai, India won the 'Best Script' award for his stunning documentary 'Love Changes Everything' at the inaugural Young Filmmakers Film Festival, Toronto, Canada. Young Anshul, of St. Dominic Savio High School, Andheri (East), won the award in the Under-10 category and his was the only entry from India. Read More. Youth Media Project. The International League for Human Rights and the Center for Media, Education & Technology announce the launch of the web site for the Voice of Youth Media Project. After a ten-year war noted for its egregious atrocities committed against civilians (some by forcibly conscripted child soldiers), Sierra Leone's youth has taken to the airwaves to voice their concerns about the human rights and governance crisis that led to the war and that exists to date. Read More. Youth Radio. With an impressive headquarters in downtown Oakland, Youth Radio is fast becoming a compelling and insightful media phenomenon that should be watched closely. Their mission is a laudable one, and as their website puts it, “…. is to promote young people’s intellectual creative and professional growth through training and access to media and to produce the highest quality original media for local and national outlets.” Learn More. Photography workshop gives new perspectives to children in New Delhi. A UNICEF-sponsored photography workshop has given its young participants from Amar Jyoti School in New Delhi a new perspective on people close to them. Ten children from the ages of 7 to 16, most with physical disabilities, took part in the project, which involved documenting the life of someone important to them such as a family member or friend. Read More. Young and Wired (San Francisco Chronical) This evening, though, Nathan, a senior at a public high school, forgoes the music so we can talk about what is directly in front of him -- a somewhat large, bulky computer that is without the latest technological accoutrements and relies on dial-up Internet access, but is nonetheless the focus of Nathan's teenage existence. He estimates he spends five to six hours a day on the computer, including doing his homework -- often concurrently with other activities. But even when he's working on "non-computing activities," he's usually in front of his computer. Tonight he'll probably be on until about midnight. Read More Student-made film addresses sexual abuse."Silent Message" is a Madras High School (Madras, Oregon) student movie that explores the issue of child abuse in Jefferson County which has about twice the state average of abuse cases. A $3,000 grant from the National Center for Victims of Crime helped fund the film. The students enlisted the help of Madras filmmaker Duke White. Student Media in Transition. (CFK) Experts say that nationwide, student media is being transformed by multimedia as the traditional newspaper is fading out. So far media production, a critical part of media literacy, is turning out to be far more democratic than traditional school newspapers—engaging a more diverse range of students than just those enrolled in journalism class. But while advocates of student journalism commend the advent of media production in the classroom, they also share a concern that these projects may not give students the same opportunity that papers have historically done: a voice to discuss the issues most relevant to them. Read More. Girls More Likely To Use Digital Media. (Guardian) They mature more quickly, are said to be more responsible and do better at school. Now media-savvy girls are putting another one over the boys by leading the digital communications revolution. Read More. Photo Essay. From 2-7 March 2006, UNICEF held a photo workshop for children aged 12 to 17 from each of the three countries hardest hit by the Chernobyl-affected disaster: Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Renowned photographer Giacomo Pirozzi worked with the 12 children - four from each country - who were all from Chernobyl-affected families. After an introduction to photographic techniques, the children went on location in Belarus to capture images of life after Chernobyl. Those from the Russian Federation and Ukraine subsequently went on location in their own countries. The photos taken by the children form an exhibition for the International Conference on Chernobyl in Belarus, April 19-21. Read More - See Photographs For a Russian teenager, photography brings the legacy of Chernobyl into focus. In the 20 years since Chernobyl exploded and gave the world yet another synonym for destruction, a generation of children has grown up with no memory of the event. Like everyone in his class at school in the village of Novy Bobovichi, Sergei Kravchenko, 14, knows only what he hears from his parents and other adults. Young Yemeni editors launch youth newsletter. A new printed newsletter aims to capture the problems, thoughts and ambitions of Yemen's young people. Six young editors launched the "One World, One Voice" newsletter on March 29, the English-language Yemen Observer reported. BBC goes after youth. The British Broadcasting Company is claiming its stake in the future media landscape by focusing more resources on new media. Younger generations, recognized director general Mark Thompson, are not growing up consuming media in the conventional sense and if traditional media doesn't adapt, its relevancy could fade, and fade fast. She's Gotta Have It: Cell Phone. (Wired) Being part of the "in" crowd for teens used to mean hanging out where the cool kids were -- the mall, the house party, the rave. Now all they have to do is be within cell-phone range.The cell phone has become a primary mode of socializing for teens and they will often avoid contact with peers that don't have cell phones, according to a study by Context. The Baltimore company uses anthropologists to study consumer trends. Read More. Positive Images - Media still has a long way to go. (YPN Magazine) Research into the media's portrayal of young people commissioned by Young People Now shows that newspapers seem to be treating the subject less negatively. Charlotte Goddard looks at the findings. Will Drive Media Future. (AdAge) "We've been looking at a group called millennials, which are people ages 8 to 27," said Anne Sweeney, president of Disney Television Group. "In this group 40% go home at night after work and school and use between five and eight different technologies. Then you have 40% of baby boomers who go home at night and watch TV. That's what's directing so many of our efforts in technology and content, especially as we look at our brands going forward and how they're going to be used going forward." Read More. Uth TV (beta) Uth TV (beta) is up and running and we're ready for you to spread the word to teenagers in your worlds! Youth upload Video, Audio, Image, and Word original creations. Members share and receive feedback on their work, win Contests (currently the Self-portrait Contest), get noticed by Uth TV producers to work on a show, and all around make noise and shape the community.http://www.uthtv.com/ Audio Diary - Children's Rights. Bernice Ama Akwaa Akuamoah, in Ghana, is a children's right advocate with a children's right advocacy group called Curious Minds, which uses radio as a the main medium for sending out information concerning children. To hear more about her work and about Curious Minds please visit www.unicef.org and type in to the search engine Bernice Akuamoah, you will hear a digital diary of her life. indiekid Films, is delighted to announce it's spring calendar of film events. Kids across the state of Oregon have a unique opportunity to see dynamic films from around the world in a festival environment. We've an engaging mix of live action, 2-D and 3-D animation using mediums from traditional pencils and clay to the more tactile and messy popcorn, ice, cereal and mud. Our filmmakers are both accomplished adult professionals and children fresh to the world of film creation. Learn More. The Multitasking Generation. Are Kids Too Wired For Their Own Good? They're e-mailing, IMing and downloading while writing the history essay. What is all that digital juggling doing to kids' brains and their family life? Read More. Where Youth Media is the Media. In countries where press freedoms are curtailed, human rights are violated, and conflict is common, young journalists are essential. Read More. Internet film shorts prove to be big hits. Just as iPods are becoming a source for downloads of old TV shows and satellite radio is a growing outlet for all kinds of music all the time, the Internet is also filling a need for instant entertainment by serving as a desktop theater for short films that run the gamut from Oscar winners to movie trailers. Voiceless children. The 16th Cairo International Film Festival for Children highlighted the lack of visual media targetting Arab children. So modest was the Arabs' share of awards handed out by Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni at the closing ceremony of the Cairo International Film Festival for Children (CIFFC) last week, it felt somewhat pathetic. Egypt received only three prizes: two for animated films -- Ragya Hassan's Anouch and the Shadow and Bassam Halabi's Friends and Greed -- and one for Magda Abdel-Aziz's TV programme for disabled children, "Hearts that Love You". Executive Production Manager at Arab Radio and Television channel (ART) Layali Badr, formerly a children's programme director and on this occasion the winner of Ministry of Culture's silver prize for producing "Adventures of the Internet", was eager to point out that, though the issue of productions targeting children has been widely debated for a long time, no answer has been found to "problems pertaining to financing children's animation work -- which seems to be the main obstacle". Read More How to make media that matters in minutes. MemeFILMS has published a downloadable four page article called "how to make media that matters in minutes" with groups of all ages. The article is chock full of handy tips for making digital video projects, based on our four years of field experience with kids all over Vermont and elsewhere.The article is chock full of handy tips for making digital video projects, based on our four years of field experience with kids all over Vermont and elsewhere. Read More or View Student work. The World Summit Youth Award Announced . An international competition for youth-led projects encouraging active participation of young people in the emerging Information Society. It is the first global "YOUTH FOR YOUTH" initiative for selecting and promoting best practice in e-content and technological creativity, demonstrating young people's potential to create digital opportunities. Read More. Native Lens program introduces youth to media careers. Swinomish, Wash. - Swinomish elders vividly remember the fish and clams once yielded by the shores of March's Point. Today, those shores are blighted by muck from the peninsula's three oil refineries. Beer cans, tires and trash are more likely to be found than clams. Above, in the path of bald eagles and migratory birds, exhaust billows from refinery smokestacks. "Unite against AIDS" youth video. Check out the first videos received for the "Unite against AIDS" youth video. They are online at the UNICEF Magic web site. UNICEF started a global campaign this year called "Unite for children, united against AIDS". We are now looking for young people around the globe to help us create a short multilingual video with the message "Unite for children, unite against AIDS" .Baltic Portraits. The first OneMinuteJr workshop of 2006 was organised february 21-25 in Liepaja, on the coast of Latvia. the twenty participants came from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The theme of the workshop was (self-)portrait, the new category in the annual theoneminutesjr competition. The videos of the Karosta workshop will be online soon. Video Site. Euro Teens Respond to Online Advertising. Young adults in Europe find online advertising more effective than other channels; like their American youth counterparts. E-mail and instant messaging (IM) are high on the list of activities. A report commissioned by MSN and conducted by Helen Petrie, professor of human computer interaction at the University of York, details the online habits of young people in Europe. Read More. Radio for Peacebuilding. Youth radio is a tool with tremendous power to build peace. Just as youth are deeply involved in conflict, so too they have the possibility to play a role in building peace. Radio has the potential to harness the creativity of young people. A guidebook has been written with such young people in mind. It is designed to help them and those who work with them design and produce entertaining radio programmes which help construct a peaceful future. Download Guidebook Self-Test Internet Campaign Scores a Hit with Youth. Internet is not just fun and games. Children are reminded of the need to secure both oneself and the computer when navigating the web. Once you've put a photo of yourself on the Internet, you'll no longer have any control over how it is used. Young people need to better understand this aspect of the Internet. The Save the Children Finland's commissioned Internet campaigns Tiukula.fi directed to 6-12 year olds and Oon ihQ (I'm gorgeous - but not too much) especially for 12-15 year-olds. Read More. Portland Student Filmmaker a Finalist in the Scion xPress Fest 2005 Music Video Competition. Andrew Michael Warnecke is one of the ten lucky student filmmakers selected to make a fully funded music video and have it screened for industry insiders on the Scion xPress Fest 2005 Music Video Screening Tour. Andrew, a student at the NW Film Center, entered the competition open to film students by submitting a treatment, budget, schedule and stylebook for the song "How Far North?" by the Minneapolis, MN band Fitzgerald. Andrew's treatment was chosen from all entries in the NW region. My City Now Future Filmmaker Contest. The contest is the final component to the My City Now media literacy campaign which was launched during Hispanic Heritage Month, 2005. The program began with a series of workshops that introduced video making skills to high school students in nine U.S. cities with high and rapidly growing Latino populations. These cities included Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego and San Francisco. TV Producer Helps Steer Teens Away from Violence and Gangs. IMDiversity.com Jose Vanegas, an independent TV producer, is the executive director of one such organization that works with Latino youth to help steer them away from violence and gangs. Filmmakers can post work online. The Independent Film Channel begins airing short movies initially produced for its web site. The new IFC Media Lab is considered an online community for Inde filmmakers who want to distinguish their work from all the other work now posted on the internet. The IFC will make short films of 6 mins. or less available on their web site. Film For Youth. (Industry News) World famous film director, Guy Ritchie, in conjunction with youth work charities YouthAction Northern Ireland and UK Youth, is launching a new film-making festival 'Film for Youth'. Ritchie said: "When I got into film-making it changed my life and gave me real direction. With UK Youth I want to offer young people the chances that film-making offered me. This is a fantastic opportunity for young people to get involved in film-making, learn new skills and express themselves." Read More. Watch what you post. (e-school) With the rise in social networking sites such as MySpace.com, experts are warning that students need to exercise more discretion in what they post about themselves online. Besides the obvious danger of posting personally identifying information, they say, the potential exists for embarrassing information to come back to bite students later in life when they apply for college or a job. Read More. The Birth of Youth-Made Radio: how teens got on the air in the days before "youth media" existed. (YouthMedia) Under community pressure, the Federal Communications Commission opened up the radio spectrum in the mid-1970s, making more room for community licenses. A "community radio movement" was born, and dozens of new stations came onto the listening spectrum, mostly in smaller markets across the nation. Young filmmakers map social change. (Asian Age) "Foot Prints" is a film that portrays the confusion of today's youth, their understanding of social responsibility, their line of action and resolve to create a change both within and around them. The film was made by nine young people whose energy is boundless and imagination unfettered. They are a group is form the Beyond Borders project, an initiative by the British Council. Read More. After television, the Internet consumes an enormous part of people's time. According to Etisalat officials, more than a quarter of the population in the UAE is using the Internet out of which 44 per cent are families. Each member of the family is using the Internet at least for four hours. A majority of the youth have become addicted to it. Critics call it the Internet addiction, and say that it is highly dangerous. Read More. Blogs, moblogs, and vblogs.User generated content, communications and services represent a significant proportion of the material accessible online. Children and young people are increasingly becoming active consumers, creators, and producers of user generated content, moderating and disseminating content in both online and related offline environments. In doing so children and young people exercise fundamental human rights online to express, seek, receive and share information however they choose in a constantly evolving online environment. Read More. GENERATION M - Are we so immersed in media brine that it's become an environmental health hazard? Twenty five years ago Harvard pediatrician Michael Rich was an aspiring filmmaker studying under legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. "I was assistant director on 'Kagemusha,' " he said, referring to Kurosawa's character study set in the samurai era. Today Rich is in the vanguard of a public health crusade that argues Americans are so saturated with media messages that it may be a health hazard. "Now that we're in the media age we have to see media exposure as an environmental health issue,'' said Rich, who has testified before Congress about media influences on children. "We have to see media exposure like the air they breathe, the food they eat, the water they drink," he said. "We should be aware of what we put in our kids' minds." Source: San Francisco Chronical. Read More. Youth photo workshop shows teenagers' lives in Moldova. "Molesti - a village of children and old people" is the name of a photo-report presented at the opening of a photo exhibition in Chisinau. Hundreds of pictures were taken by children and young people aged between 14 and 21 as a the result of a photography workshop facilitated by UNICEF photographer Giacomo Pirozzi and supported by UNICEF Moldova in the summer of 2005. The best ones are now on display in Chisinau. Read More You can also View the Photo Essays online.
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