media literacy
The
www.mediamanual.at
[german] project is an interactive platform
for integrative media work in schools and offers pupils, students and
teachers material for practical media education. It contains basic knowledge
in the form of lectures and workshops in which practical courses are
offered on subjects such as film, radio, video and new media.
Thematically it is concerned with problematic subject areas in media education such as the question as to how common media knowledge influences value systems and ideas.
The mediamanual is also a forum which organises an annual media literacy
award. This is intended to thematise media competence as a political,
social, cultural and personal qualification and to help establish social
and critically sensible use of media within the context of the organisation
of everyday life.