Media/Information/Comm Literacy We Need More!

Never before in the history of communication and social development have mediated messages and the means of distributing these messages had such a disruptive role on the development of youth. Of course disruption can be a good thing and can provoke innovation in practice and thought. But disruption can also be a challenge. I sit [...]

information Literacy are we doing anything in the UAE?

For 11 years I have been teaching my own brand of information literacy at Zayed University. I like to think that some headway has been made, I am not sure. What I do know is that there are all sorts of professors doing their own little bit to push the idea of information or maybe [...]

Journalism the new face

A conversation with Abbas Al Lawati about his time on the Freedom Floatilla. Abbas Al Lawati is the Gulf News reporter from Dubai who was on the Freedom Floatilla as it steamed towards Gaza. What is the role of the reporter? To report? To be an observer? To tell a story? Abbas found himself in [...]