Скачать или смотреть Have social media failed us? | Christiana Varda | TEDxLarnaca

Sometimes you need to start with the simple questions to answer the bigger ones.

Christiana Varda makes the case for learning to navigate our newsfeeds and the content we access online with discretion, awareness and a critical stance.

This is what's going to allow us to navigate a future that, without question, will continue to feature more media, more technology, and more personalization. Christiana Varda is the Founder of Media What, an NGO focused on promoting media literacy education through participatory digital media.

She is currently a PhD student at the Media, Cognition and Learning Research Group, at Cyprus University of Technology, where she focuses on media literacy, misinformation and online media platforms.

Christiana also works as a Research Associate on Co-inform, an H2020-funded project involving top universities, a research centre, a fact-checking organisation and SMEs, that aims to contribute towards the ambitious goal of tackling disinformation by focusing on three main stakeholder groups: policymakers, journalists and citizens.

In addition, she teaches creative production courses on the BSc Web Design and Web Development course at UCLan Cyprus.

Christiana graduated as a Schreyer Honors Scholar from the Pennsylvania State University, where she studied on a full CASP / Fulbright scholarship. She holds a BA in Communications (Journalism) and a BA in English; she also holds an MA in Interactive Multimedia from the Cyprus University of Technology.

Finally, she is passionate about bringing quality independent cinema to the Larnaka community; she is the Executive Secretary of the Board of the Larnaka Cinema Society, a volunteer-run, non-profit organisation. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx