Evens Media Education Prize 2017
Zalab (Italy) and the Association for Communication and Media Culture (Croatia) win the Evens Prize for Media Education 2017 for their exciting approach to media literacy.
The Evens Prize for Media Education 2017 was awarded to Zalab for its Project Otherness. The international jury praised it for its exciting approach to media literacy as something connected to lived experience, participation and production – all based around a hub in the community and addressing key issues of our times.
The standard of entries was so high that the jury also awarded a Special Jury Prize, which went to the Association for Communication and Media Culture in Zagreb, Croatia for its project Djeca medija (Children of Media). The jury members were impressed by the way the project involves both academics and volunteers, how it approaches the media as part of lived experience, its importance in the context of Croatia, and the impact it has on both participants and volunteers.
This fifth Evens Prize for Media Education, was focused on projects that help young people (aged 12 to 18) to develop a critical attitude to the media – to question, analyze and evaluate the media, in non-formal or informal learning contexts.
Otherness is a media literacy project using participatory video, aimed at the second-generation migrant community in Italy. The jury appreciated the project’s commitment to production – since, as well as focusing on reading the media, we also need to think about the huge benefits of actually producing media content – and to a participatory approach to media education.
The project is community-based, around a physical hub, while embracing contemporary digital modes of communication and representation, as well as social action through media representation. It has access to a wide distribution network – through collaboration with Apollo Cinema and Zalab TV – and reaches a large audience with its participatory video projects. It is also easily replicable in other cities and locations.
The laureate of the Special Jury Prize, the Djeca medija project, is a holistic initiative providing basic media literacy training and skills development to a large number of youngsters in Croatia.
Both winners used a proportion of the prize money to share their vision and good practices with colleagues in other European countries.
The prize‐giving ceremony took place on 21 September 2017 in Sarajevo, in the framework of the 2017 Media Meets Literacy Conference.
Zalab (Italy) and the Association for Communication and Media Culture (Croatia) win the Evens Prize for Media Education 2017 for their exciting approach to media literacy.
The Evens Prize for Media Education 2017 was awarded to Zalab for its Project Otherness. The international jury praised it for its exciting approach to media literacy as something connected to lived experience, participation and production – all based around a hub in the community and addressing key issues of our times.
The standard of entries was so high that the jury also awarded a Special Jury Prize, which went to the Association for Communication and Media Culture in Zagreb, Croatia for its project Djeca medija (Children of Media). The jury members were impressed by the way the project involves both academics and volunteers, how it approaches the media as part of lived experience, its importance in the context of Croatia, and the impact it has on both participants and volunteers.
This fifth Evens Prize for Media Education, was focused on projects that help young people (aged 12 to 18) to develop a critical attitude to the media – to question, analyze and evaluate the media, in non-formal or informal learning contexts.
Otherness is a media literacy project using participatory video, aimed at the second-generation migrant community in Italy. The jury appreciated the project’s commitment to production – since, as well as focusing on reading the media, we also need to think about the huge benefits of actually producing media content – and to a participatory approach to media education.
The project is community-based, around a physical hub, while embracing contemporary digital modes of communication and representation, as well as social action through media representation. It has access to a wide distribution network – through collaboration with Apollo Cinema and Zalab TV – and reaches a large audience with its participatory video projects. It is also easily replicable in other cities and locations.
The laureate of the Special Jury Prize, the Djeca medija project, is a holistic initiative providing basic media literacy training and skills development to a large number of youngsters in Croatia.
Both winners used a proportion of the prize money to share their vision and good practices with colleagues in other European countries.
The prize‐giving ceremony took place on 21 September 2017 in Sarajevo, in the framework of the 2017 Media Meets Literacy Conference.