MA: Digital Technologies, Communication and Education

A postgraduate course on digital technologies & media, at the University of Manchester, UK

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    • Core activities
      • Cognitive authority
      • Critical media analysis
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    • Judgments about information
      • Critical – Transformational – Intersubjective
      • Functional – Generic – Objective
      • Personal-Situated-Subjective
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  • Media and IL for PGs and researchers
    • 1. Introduction
      • How to use this website
      • Authorship information and some suggestions for further reading
      • Information overload
      • Text and context: a film review
    • 2. The content frame
    • 3. The competency frame
      • ACTIVITY: Researching a topic
    • 4. The learning to learn frame
      • Examples of cognitive bias
    • 5. The personal relevance frame
      • ACTIVITY: Reflecting on your IL skills
      • ACTIVITY: Developing an IL plan of action
    • 6. The social impact frame
      • Interview with a senior news producer
      • ACTIVITY: Mainstream and alternative views
    • 7. Conclusion, the relational frame and how this ties together
      • Other collected papers and chapters
ESA image showing Italian smog
March 23, 2020 Drew Whitworth

Our panic over COVID-19 is being driven by media fictions: not the latest scientific data

March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 Drew Whitworth

Scrutiny over authority is needed now like never before

March 2, 2020 Drew Whitworth

COVID-19 will debilitate not only the health of our bodies, but of our information landscapes, our economy and our society

Chetham's library
February 17, 2020 Drew Whitworth

Why to love the library — but also go beyond it

February 9, 2020February 9, 2020 Drew Whitworth

Reflecting on digital, media and information literacy…

July 17, 2019July 18, 2019 Heather

Study on the MA DTCE from September 2019

October 8, 2018 Drew Whitworth

MA: DTCE field trip to the Forbidden Corner

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