PROJECTS: Media projects: Behind The Camera

Media projects: Behind The Camera

By - 31/05/06 The Government is to invest £6m in media projects that provide opportunities for disadvantaged young people. Helen Gregory talks to three schemes already offering practical experience in the industry to young people.

Free pool and having somewhere to hang out if it rains might once have been a big draw, but now youth clubs have some pretty glamorous competition. The prevalence of reality shows, blogging and digital TV means young people are increasingly media-savvy, and they're finding that media projects not only offer a good alternative to street corners or computer games but also teach highly desirable practical skills. These projects help feed youthful ambitions to find a route into broadcasting, journalism or behind-the-scenes production, and are also a great way to engage young people who might otherwise slip through the net. It is a view that appears to be shared by the Government too. In last month's Budget, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced that £6m was to be made available to invest in media projects that provide opportunities for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Although no further details have yet been released, one project that could benefit is YCTV, a London-based youth media project Brown has visited himself. 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.

 

FULL ARTICLE: http://www.ypnmagazine.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=full_news&ID=10499

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RESOURCES: Media Smart Youth: Eat Think and Be Active

Media Smart Youth: Eat Think and Be Active

A new after-school program helps kids interpret the numerous messages they receive every day to make healthier choices about food and physical activity. The materials, available free on the Web, were developed by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "Media-Smart Youth: Eat, Think, and Be Active"! is designed to help young people ages 11 to 13 become aware of how media may influence the choices they make. The program's fun, hands-on, interactive activities teach critical thinking skills that will help young people make smart decisions about what they eat and how they spend their time. The "Media-Smart Youth" curriculum, available at http://www.nichd.nih.gov/msy, consists of 10 lessons and a major project that help young people acquire knowledge and skills in four key areas. Another good resource for media literacy is the New Mexico Media Literacy Project http://www.nmmlp.org/ SOURCE: http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/siobhanchamp-blackwell/view?PostID=14618

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ARTICLES: The ABC of kids' TV

The ABC of kids' TV

28 May 2006
Kids' TV has come a long way since Sesame Street - or has it? Grant Smithies investigates.

Without kids' TV, I would be a dead man by now. Sleep- deprived to the point of unconsciousness, I would have fallen asleep at the wheel or perhaps dozed off while eating breakfast and drowned in my own milky muesli.

You see, my two year-old daughter Rosa wakes up early. Really early. 5.30am early. The house is dark as the inside of a cow. The street is deserted. Even the birds in the trees are still sleeping, which earns them my bitter envy.

So I do what tired parents have done since children's morning television began. I flick it on. I set my child up with something to eat, turn on Play School or Hi-5 and get another hour's sleep while my child learns her ABCs, one-two-threes and - as lots of these shows are Australian - an array of poisonously cute little songs about koalas, kookaburras and kangaroos.

Parents with similar habits will know that this extra hour's kip comes with a certain amount of guilt. What if the shows your child is watching are utter shite? Shouldn't you be up interacting with your child, keeping them company, reading them books?

We want to believe that the shows our kids are watching are educational, or at the very least, not doing them harm. And it turns out we're right, so long as we choose age- appropriate shows.

FULL ARTICLE AT http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3682751a1869,00.html

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PROJECTS: Youth Media Network from Moldova increases with other eight school newspapers

 

SOURCE: Email from Youth Media Centre Chisinau

Press release

23 May 2006

 

Youth Media Network increases with other eight school newspapers

The number of students and teachers, sustained by parents and Meyers that want a school newspaper in their school or high school is increasing. At Small Grant competition for editing school newspapers launched by Youth Media Centre, participated 89 scholar institutions from 23 raions of Moldova.

Youth Media Centre in partnership with Institute for Foreign Cultural Relation with the support of the Federal Republic of Germany within the scope of the Stability Pact for South-eastern Europe announces the results of Small Grants competition for editing school newspapers.   

89 scholar institutions participated in the competition. The initiative groups represented 23 raions of Moldova, inclusively from Transnistria and UTA Gagauzia. 

  
The jury of the competition, comprise of representative from Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Republic of Moldova, Youth Media Centre, and journalists from professional media gave priority to the projects applied by young people from the Eastern part of Moldova and from UTA Gagauzia, this being an objective of the project. Also, was paid special attention to requires coming from communities that have no youth media initiative. During selection process an important criteria was the support from school administration or Local Public Administration; the number of readers and the presence of a computer for editorial team.

The grants, with a total value of 5600 Euros consist of technical equipment and stationary materials they need for newspaper?s activity for a year.

Winners at the Small Grant competition for editing school newspapers are the following institutions: 
- Theoretic Lyceum ?Evrica?, Ribnita (Transnistrian Region)
- Theoretic Lyceum ?Ion Creanga?, Cosnita,( Transnistrian Region)
- ?Stefan cel Mare? Lyceum,  Dorotcaia, (Transnistrian Region)
- Theoretic Lyceum from Chioselia Rusa,raion Comrat (UTA Gagauzia)
- Theoretic Lyceum from Cuhnesti, raion Glodeni
- Theoretic Lyceum ?E. Coseriu?, Mihaileni, raion  Riscani
- ?V. Cotofana? Lyceum from Chetrosu, raion Drochia
- Theoretic Lyceum from village Ciobalaccia, raion Cantemir
 
Young people from the winner school newspapers will be trained and involved afterwards in consulting programs, exchange activities with other young journalists. In this case, Youth Media Network will increase; in present it gathers 66 school newspapers, 27 school radio stations and six Radio and TV stations for youth.
 
Youth Media Centre supports youth media initiatives starting with 2004. Young journalists trained by Youth Media Centre became resource-persons in their communities, helping in inviting financial sources in school. Being involved in different media activities, the dialogue between young people and teachers, local public administration and parents became more efficient. The young journalists helped in informing their peers in human rights, health issues and in avoiding risky behaviours.

 

For future information contact e-mail: centrulmedia@yahoo.com    

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NEWS / TV: Babies and TV's Making More Sense to Parents

Babies and TV's Making More Sense to Parents

By LYNETTE CLEMETSON

WASHINGTON, May 24 ? Sure, Sharae Sharp knows pediatricians say children under 2 should not watch TV. But the advice feels less than practical when she needs to scrub the bathroom floor or has a migraine and is craving an hour of silence.

"Sometimes you just need some time," said Ms. Sharp, 29, unapologetic about the 13-inch television she placed in her 3-year-old-daughter Taelor's room more than a year ago.

Jennifer Beck-Wilson, 36, tends to agree with the Academy of Pediatrics. But with a 3-year-old son, a 15-month-old daughter and a full-time job, best intentions fall by the wayside. "There's my philosophy and then there's real life," she said.

The two are hardly alone. A new study released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation, in which both participated, found that despite increasing debate over the potentially harmful effects of television on young children, many parents believe that the benefits of a little tube time ? whether for their children's development or their own sanity ? outweigh the risk of raising a generation of crib potatoes.

On a typical day 61 percent of babies one year or younger watch TV or videos, with average viewing of more than an hour, the study found. A third of children under 6 have a TV in their bedroom. And more than half of parents surveyed said their main reason for putting a TV in their child's room was so that they or other family members could watch their own shows.

FULL ARTICLE AT http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/science/24cnd-crib.html (free registration required)

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RADIO / PROJECTS: A radio station was settled in the minor prison Lipcani, Moldova

SOURCE: email fr Centrul Media pentru Tineri

 

A RADIO STUDIO WAS SETTLED IN THE MINOR PRISON FROM LIPCANI

 

The first-ever radio studio in a detention institution from Republic of Moldova was inaugurated in the Minors Penitentiary, from Lipcani city. In the radio studio, named by young detainees ?Radio Teenager?, will be produced radio shows and broadcasts, informs Monitor Media Agency.   

 

The name of radio studio was given by young detainees during a training where participated 15 minors. They learnt techniques of producing a radio magazine that will consist of news, interviews and musical devotes. 

 

Justice Lieutenant Victor Rusu, vice director of Lipcani Penitentiary said that the first broadcast will be launched on 3^rd of June. At the begging just a radio magazine per week will be broadcasted in the prison. Totally, 25 detainees are involved in media projects run in the last year in the penitentiary. A team of 10 minors edit the intern newspaper ?AerZona?, and other 15 will be involved in producing radio shows at ?Radio Teenager?, mentioned Rusu. 

 

Detainees Serghei Novikov, editor-coordinator at ?Radio Teenager?, mentioned that the radio magazines will be broadcasted weekly for 45 minutes or an hour, especially in Sundays.

 

?Radio Teenager? Studio is a part of the project ?Young people promote Youth Voices?, implemented by Youth Media Centre and Lipcani Penitentiary with financial support of UNICEF Moldova. Another component of the project is the intern newspaper ?AerZona?, edited monthly in penitentiary.

 

Youth Media Centre Director, Veronica Boboc, said for Monitor Media that the radio studio settled in Lipcani prison represents an intern network via which will be shared information for young detainees. The young journalists have digital recorders; their materials will be processed in studio?s computers and afterwards broadcasted, said Boboc.

 

At the end of October last year, minor detainees of Lipcani prison published the first number of the monthly newspaper ?AerZona? (that has 8 pages in A4 format). This is the first newspaper edited in a detention institution from Moldova. 

 

The only detention institution for minors in Moldova, the Lipcani-based penitentiary holds about 148 minors under 18.

 
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St.Drumul Viilor 30/2
MD - 2021 Chisinau
Republic of Moldova

Phone/fax: 373.22 73 14 52
www.centrulmedia.md

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RADIO: Youth radio station to be set up online (UK)

Media: Youth radio station to be set up online
By - 17/05/06

A youth-led internet radio station will be set up in Wiltshire within the
next few weeks to enable young people to discuss events and issues in their
area.

Spark Radio will be an extension of www.sparksite.co.uk, the county's youth
information portal. The station will be accessible from the web site, and
will provide a platform for young people to air their music and download
music from other local bands.

Spark Radio will be run by an editorial team of six 13- to 20-year-olds, who
are currently receiving 10 weeks of radio training from Warminster Community
Radio.

The initiative is a partnership between Wiltshire County Council Youth
Development Service, the Interactive Media Centre at Wiltshire College
Chippenham and the Wiltshire Assembly for Youth.
Lisa Lort, the station manager, said: "We'd like to see young people coming
along with issues they want to talk about. The editorial team will be the
core group of young people coming in and making programmes, but they'll
support and help any other young people who want to come in."

Spark Radio will be online in four to six weeks, initially with prerecorded
programmes.

SOURCE:
http://www.ypnmagazine.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=full_news&ID=10355
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ARTICLES / PROJECTS: An Editor-In-Chief Behind The Bars (MOLDOVA)

An Editor-In-Chief Behind The Bars

Denis is reserved but also willing to communicate. Without reading his record, it would be hard to believe he is only 18 years old. His head shaved, a bit hunched, with intelligent eyes and a straight look, he sits with a notebook under his arm and periodically jots down ideas, verses, or maybe something totally different.

Denis is the Editor-in-Chief of the first newspaper in the country for incarcerated people. The paper, ?AerZona?, is published in the Lipcani Penitentiary for minors with UNICEF support.

FULL ARTICLE AT http://www.unicef.org/ceecis/reallives_4277.html

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EVENTS: World Children's and Youth News Programs: reflections and experiences (SPAIN)

World Children?s and Youth News Programs: reflections and experiences

Next 8th and 9th of May the 3rd edition of Working Days will take place in Madrid called: ?World Children?s and Youth News Programs: reflections and experiences?. Organized by the OETI and the Rafael del Pino Foundation, the meeting will take place at the Foundation, located at Paseo de la Castellana 37, Madrid.

 

The Working Days will start on Monday, 8th May at 4.30 pm and will finish on Tuesday the 9th at 7 pm. Concerning the development of the program, it?s necessary to remark that the inauguration, made by the Secretary of State of Communication, Sr. Fernando Moraleda, as well as the president of the Rafael del Pino Foundation and the president of the European Observatory on Children?s Television.

 

The Working Days will be divided into 5 parts (?Experiences in Spain?, ?Experiences in the World?, ?Experiences in Europe?, ?The dream of emotions? and ?Conclusions?), with conferences made by authorities in each field and, in some cases, also with a posterior round table.

 

SOURCE: http://www.oeti.org/oeti.php?lang=en

 

FULL PROGRAMME IN SPANISH IN PDF: http://www.oeti.org/descargas/tn_06.pdf

 

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CALL FOR ENTRIES: FITB 06 Barcelona

FITB 06.
CALL FOR ENTRIES 2006

We invite filmmakers of all ages to submit their children and youth productions destined for television and participate in the 10th edition of the Barcelona International Television Festival (FITB), which will be held from November 13 to 18, 2006 in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean city of Barcelona.

As with previous years, we are especially interested in films, which not only entertain but also ideally help educate and form the young viewer in some way.

We welcome all filmmakers, students, legal entities, production and distribution companies etc., to submit their films for our festival within the following terms:

Genre: Children and youth - All public

Films and productions made for children and youth

Films and productions about children and/or dealing with childhood subjects

Films made by children, youth and audiovisual students.

For more information please check out our website.
The 2006 entry form can be found at Festival>Entry form. The deadline is May 31.
Please contact fitb@oeti.org if you have any queries about the festival.

Please send your films (to arrive no later than June 30, 2006) for the pre-selection to:

El Festival Internacional de Televisón de Barcelona
c/o: Doina Bird - Festival Coordinator
C/ Aragó 290-292, Barcelona 08009, SPAIN
Tel: (34) 93 488 1914
(34) 93 162 6756
Fax: (34) 93 488 2086

 

WEBSITE: http://www.oeti.org/

 

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REPORTS: Media Literacy Audit: Report on media literacy amongst children (UK)

Media Literacy Audit: Report on media literacy amongst children

Executive Summary

The promotion of media literacy is a new responsibility placed on Ofcom arising from Section 11 of the Communications Act 2003.

Ofcom?s definition of media literacy, developed after formal consultation with stakeholders, is ?the ability to access, understand and create communications in a variety of contexts?. Media literacy gives people the confidence and knowledge to get the most out of the many media platforms that now exist.

Ofcom has carried out an audit of media literacy across the UK and in March 2006 published its first report, which details the audit?s findings across all UK adults. That report, Ofcom?s Media Literacy Audit: report on adult media literacy, is available at www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/media_literacy. A series of supplementary reports is also available, examining the views of adults from minority ethnic groups, older people, disabled people, and people across the nations and regions.

This report focuses on children aged 8-15 across the UK. Its purpose is to provide stakeholders with a source of information about children?s levels of media literacy. We examine children according to two main age-bands ? 8-11 and 12-15. We asked children about their media uptake and usage, as well as their attitudes to media and towards learning. We also asked children?s parents about the extent and type of rules in the home regarding the media platforms, and compared these with children?s responses.

Our main findings are :

Across all platforms

• Some 72% of children aged 8-15 have access to digital TV at home, 64% have access to the internet at home, 47% of parents say there is household access to digital radio services, and 65% of 8-15s have their own mobile phone. Just under half of 8-11s have their own mobile phone (49%) compared to 82% of 12-15s.
• Just over one quarter (28%) of all children aged 8-15 have digital TV and the internet at home and have their own mobile phone. This is considerably more common amongst older children, accounting for 36% of 12-15 year olds compared to 21% of 8-11 year olds.
• Half of children aged 8-15 own a games console (50%), and a further third (34%) use the one in the household.

Television

• One in three children aged 8-11 (35%) and half of those aged 12-15 (49%) say they mostly watch TV on their own, with just over one-third of 8-11s and just over one quarter of 12-15s saying they mostly watch with a grown up.
• Across all children aged 8-15, one quarter (23%) both mostly watch television on their own and mostly watch television in their bedroom. This ?solitary? TV viewing accounts for one in five (19%) of 8-11s and over one quarter of 12-15s (28%), with no difference by gender for either age group.
• Nearly three quarters of all children aged 8-15 have a TV in their bedroom (73%), with this being more common for boys than for girls in each age group.
• Children aged 8-15 watch a (self-reported) average of 13.9 hours of TV per week. Children in Scotland (15.2 hours), Northern Ireland (16.1), those from minority ethnic groups (15.2) and those living in low income households (15.5) watch significantly more.
• Amongst those with a television at home and either internet access, a mobile phone or digital TV (92% of all children aged 8-15), half (49%) have interacted having seen something on television using a mobile phone (to send a text message), the internet (to send an e-mail or visit a website), or the interactive button on their TV remote control.
• Interactivity is significantly more common amongst 12-15s (57%) than amongst 8-11s (14%), with 12-15 year old girls significantly more likely to have interacted (69%) compared to 12-15 year old boys (44%).
• Some 78% of children aged 12?15 feel that news programmes are true either always or most of the time, and 76% feel similarly about nature and wildlife programmes. 54% say this for current affairs programmes (with only 11% saying they are true ?all the time? compared to 35% saying this about news programmes). One third (33%) of 12-15 year olds say that reality TV programmes are true all or most of the time, although 20% say they are never true.
• Some 16% of all 12-15s say that they don?t watch news programmes. One in three children (33%) claim never to watch current affairs programmes, compared to 21% saying they don?t watch nature programmes, and only 12% saying that they don?t watch reality TV programmes.
• Across both age groups, three quarters (73%) of parents of 8-15 year olds say they have rules about their child?s TV, video and DVD viewing. Rules are significantly more common amongst parents of children from minority ethnic groups (91%).
• For the 8-11 year age group, parents and children respond similarly about whether there are any rules about the child?s viewing: 85% of parents and 80% of children aged 8-11 say there are rules. For the 12-15 age group, there is a difference between parents and children, with 61% of parents and 49% of children saying that there are rules for TV viewing.
• Close to three in ten parents in households with a cable or satellite TV service have set controls to restrict access to certain channels.

Radio

• Some 71% of children aged 8-11 say they listen to the radio, and 85% of those aged 12-15. Girls are more likely to listen than boys.
• Half (51%) of all children aged 8-15 who listen to radio at home usually do so on their own; two in five (38%) of 8-11s and two thirds (63%) of 12-15s. Amongst 8-11s, boys who listen to radio at home are significantly more likely to listen alone than girls (44% compared to 33%).
• Children aged 8-15 listen to a (self-reported) average of 5.4 hours per week ? approximately three-fifths at home and two-fifths in the car. Older children (12-15) listen more (6.6 hours per week) than 8-11s (4 hours per week).
• Amongst those children who listen to radio at home and either have internet at home or a mobile phone (48% of all aged 8-15), one in seven (15%) has interacted having heard something on radio using a mobile phone (to send a text message) or the internet (to send an e-mail or visit a website). This is significantly more common for 12-15s than 8-11s (at 20% and 8% respectively), and again it is girls aged 12-15 that are driving this difference (with 25% of girls in this group having interacted compared to 13% of boys).
• One quarter (26%) of parents of 8-11 year olds report any rules about radio listening, and 16% of parents of 12-15 year olds. For comparison, 85% of parents of 8-11s and 61% of parents of 12-15s reported any rules about watching television. Unlike the comparable findings for television, children are rather more likely (significantly so for 8-11s) to report any rules about listening to radio than their parents.

Internet

• Nearly half (48%) of children aged 8-11 use the internet at home, and two-thirds (65%) of children aged 12-15 do so. Amongst older children there is no difference by gender, but amongst 8-11 year olds, boys are significantly more likely to use the internet at home compared to girls (at 54% compared to 42%).
• Internet access in the bedroom is more common amongst children aged 12-15. 13% of all children aged 12-15 have internet access in their rooms, compared to 3% of 8-11s. 12-15 year old girls are more likely to have access in their rooms than boys.
• Two in five (40%) of 8-11s and over two-thirds (71%) of 12-15s say they mostly use the internet on their own at home.
• Across all children aged 8-15, 6% both mostly use the internet on their own and mostly use the internet in their bedroom. This degree of solitary internet use accounts for one in ten (11%) of all children who use the internet at home - 4% for 8-11s and 17% for 12-15s who use the internet at home. Whilst solitary internet use accounts for more boys than girls aged 8-11 who use the internet at home (6% compared to 1%), the reverse is true for 12-15 year olds, with a higher incidence of solitary users amongst girls compared to boys (at 23% compared to 11%).
• Children aged 8-15 who use the internet at all (whether at home, school or elsewhere) use the internet for a (self-reported) average of 6.2 hours per week, with 12-15s using it far more (8 hours per week) than 8-11s (4.4 hours per week).
• Whilst using the internet for school work and for playing games are the top two uses for children in each age group, children aged 12-15 make a broader use of the internet than those aged 8-11.
• Across all children who use the internet, one in six (16%) has come across anything of concern to them, with this being more common for 12-15s than 8-11s.
• Some 31% of 12-15s using the internet at home say they make any checks on new websites (from a prompted list of checks). Those that say they have been taught about the internet at school are more likely than those that haven?t to make these checks (33% compared to 23%).
• Whilst two in three (67%) children aged 12-15 who use the internet at home agree that they trust most of what they find on this internet, one in five (20%) disagrees, and a further one in ten (13%) is unsure. Responses do not vary by nation, but children from minority ethnic groups are more likely to disagree (at 30%) that they trust most of what they find on the internet.
• Nearly all parents of 8-11s who use the internet (95%) say they have rules about their child?s access, with rules relating to content nominated by almost all of these parents. Parents of 12-15 year olds who use the internet are significantly less likely to have any rules for their child?s access, although rules are reported by four in five (78%) and these are again dominated by rules relating to content.
• Parents whose children are mostly solitary internet users (through mostly using the internet without an adult and mostly using the internet in their own bedroom) are significantly less likely to have any rules for their children around using the internet (at 67% compared to 86% across all parents of 8-15s). This lower incidence of parental rules regarding internet use where the children mostly uses the internet on their own is likely to be related to the finding that older children are more likely to be solitary internet users.
• For each age group, parents are significantly more likely to report any rules than the children, with the largest gap relating to content rules, reported by 78% of parents overall and 60% of children.
• Around half of all parents with internet access have some kind of blocking in place to stop their children viewing certain types of websites, with no significant differences by the age of the child.
• Parents who do not have blocks in place give reasons for this largely relating to trusting their child, although around one in five of these parents say they do not have controls set because they?re unsure how to do this or were not aware it was possible.

Mobile phones

• Two-thirds (65%) of children aged 8-15 own a mobile phone - 49% of 8-11s and 82% of 12-15s. There is a sharp increase in ownership between the age of 10 (40% owning a mobile) and 11 (78% owning a mobile).
• Across all children aged 8-15 with a mobile phone, the average (self-reported) weekly volume of calls made stands at 8, plus 25 text messages sent per week. The average for 8-11s is 6 calls and 16 text messages, and an average of 9 calls and 31 text messages for 12-15s.
• Some 15% of 8-11s and 42% of 12-15s are solely responsible for paying their own mobile phone bill. Responses do not vary to any significant extent by gender within age group.
• Estimates from parents of children aged 8-15 with mobile phones put the average monthly spend at £10.50 per month; £9 for 8-11s and £11.50 for 12-15s. Amongst 8-11s the average spend does not vary to any significant extent, but 12-15 year old girls are estimated to spend significantly more than 12-15 year old boys; at £12.60 compared to £10.20.
• The top two reasons for having a mobile phone differ significantly by gender, with girls aged 12-15 being more likely to have a phone to keep in touch with friends and boys more likely to have a phone to keep in touch with family.
• The most popular uses of the mobile for each age group are sending text messages and making calls. The third most popular use is to use the phone for playing games. This is the only type of use made by a significantly higher proportion of 8-11s compared to 12-15s.
• Four in five parents of 8-11s report any rules compared to three in five children aged 8-11. Parents and children for this age group are significantly more likely to report any rules about mobile phone use than the 12-15 year age group. For the 12-15 year age group, again parents are significantly more likely to report any rules compared to their children, and they are significantly more likely to report any rules relating to payment than parents of 8-11s.

Attitudes and preferences

• Around one third of 12-15 year olds have direct experience of creating ringtones and playlists. One in five overall say they have set up their own website. Around half have either experience of or interest in setting up their own website and making a short film using a digital camcorder, and rather fewer are interested in making a short film using a mobile phone.
• Around one half of 12-15 year olds say they have no interest in four out of the seven prompted types of creativity.
• Children aged 8-11 are significantly more likely to prefer to learn from school (48%) and from their parents (45%) than those aged 12-15. One in three 8-11s (33%) prefers to learn from friends, with other ways of learning nominated by fewer than one in five children aged 8-11. By contrast, the top choice for children aged 12-15 is to learn about digital technologies from friends, nominated by nearly half (47%) of those aged 12-15.
• Around two-thirds (64%) of all children aged 8-11 say they have had any lessons which teach them about the internet, and just one in ten in this age group (9%) say they have had any lessons which teach them about television or films. Both types of lessons are more common amongst the oldest children (aged 11) in this age group, rising to 76% for lessons about the internet and 15% for lessons about television or film.
• Some 40% of 12-15s say they have learned about TV at school, and three quarters in this age group (74%) have learned about the internet at school.

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SOURCE: www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/media_literacy/medlitpub/medlitpubrss/children/

 

FULL REPORT IN PDF: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/media_literacy/medlitpub/medlitpubrss/older/older.pdf

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RESOURCES: New Film about Working Children's Movements - Taking Destiny inTheirHands

Subject: [ChildParticipationInMediaInSouthAsia] New Film about Working Children's Movements - Taking Destiny inTheirHands

 

Dear Friends,

 

The Concerned for Working Children is happy to announce its film "Taking Destiny in their Hands"

 

"Taking Destiny in their Hands" is the first attempt to visually document the relevance of the International Movement of Working Children and the central themes that it addresses.

 

The making of this film has been an exciting journey and a challenging one at that.  The film attempts to capture the essence of the rich history of the children?s movements in three continents that has played an extremely significant role in creating a widespread awareness of children?s participation and protagonism.  
 
The film gives the viewers a rare opportunity to listen to children's analysis of global problems, their strategies to overcome them and their call to adults and policy-makers to give them due recognition as social actors. It provides an overview of the long process that organised working children's movements of Africa, Asia and Latin America have undergone to create, initially, their own national and regional movements and then a united International Movement.

 

It highlights the struggles and successes of their participation in the international policy making arena. The ILO consultations in Amsterdam and Oslo; interactions with decision makers in Milan and Berlin are a few examples in the film that demonstrate how the members of the movement continue to make their voices heard despite tremendous challenges.

During the course of the 45 minutes film, children articulate their concerns and insights. They paint their vision for a just society and in no uncertain terms describe themselves as an integral part of the civil society.

Spanning three continents, and a period of over three decades, the film depicts how the similarities of the movements form their foundation and how their diversities bring rich nuances to their struggle. The title of the film has been quoted from the Mayor of Berlin, Harald Wolf's address to the International Movement in Berlin, and reflects how adults and those in power are increasingly recognising that there is much to be learnt from children's protagonism and its impact on the society.

 

Duration: 45 minutes

 

Languages:     English Version

                        Spanish Version

                        Italian Version

 

Direction: Kavita Ratna

 

Produced by: CIDA, CWC and the Italianats

 

Please browse through our film catalogue at the following link to learn more about our films:http://www.workingchild.org/Film_Catalogue.pdf.

 

Please use the order form attached to this mail to get back to us with your requirements.

 

We are eager to receive your responses and your feedback.

 

We look forward to hearing from you.

 

Regards,

Kavita Ratna

The Concerned for Working Children (CWC)
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Bangalore - 560 017
India
Phone: 91 - 80 - 25234611
Fax: 91- 80 - 25235034
Web: www.workingchild.org

 

 

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EVENTS: UN-sponsored Arab regional forum focuses on supporting girls' education

UN-sponsored Arab regional forum focuses on supporting girls? education

3 May 2006 ? Arab media professionals, human rights organizations, academia and United Nations agencies have begun meeting in Dubai to hammer out ways to improve girls? access to quality education, the UN Children?s Fund (UNICEF) said today, highlighting that while there have been advances in the Arab world, out of 70 million illiterates an estimated two-thirds of these are women and girls.

Addressing the Second Arab Regional Media Forum, Thomas McDermott, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, called on members of the media to become credible advocates for children, and to strengthen their role as monitors of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other promises agreed upon by countries to boost national support for girls' enrolment in school.

"Media also need to make all of us, the policymakers, accountable for results," he said at the three-day event that began on Tuesday. The MDGs are a set of eight goals aimed at slashing a host of socio-economic ills by 2015, one of which is to eliminate global gender disparity.

FULL ARTICLE AT: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=18330&Cr=girl&Cr1=education

MORE INFO: http://www.unicef.org/media/media_33739.html

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EVENTS / AWARDS: UNICEF commends Fuji TV for award

UNICEF commends Fuji TV for award

Congratulates Japanese Network For Corporate Philanthropy Award

LUCERNE, NEW YORK,  28 April 2006 ? UNICEF applauded Fuji Television as the Japanese network was honoured at the Bal d?Or tonight and will officially receive the Rose d?Or Charity Award tomorrow night for corporate philanthropy in recognition of 33 years of fundraising on behalf of UNICEF.

?For more than three decades, Fuji Television has distinguished itself as an exemplary friend to UNICEF and to children throughout the world,? UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman said from New York. ?We are proud and honoured to be associated with Fuji Television.?

FULL ARTICLE AT http://www.unicef.org/media/media_33684.html

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