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We’re bringing some of the UK’s top alternative media platforms together to discuss the way media serves communities and tells stories. Join us, digitally, and talk: CTRL of our news outlets and how it has become more concentrated. Two billionaires own half of the UK’s top 10 daily newspapers. Three companies dominate 83% of the […]
Cancel Culture: Shame on Who? With Ayishat Akanbi & Jaspreet Kaur
An online discussion exploring the complexities (or not) of cancel culture and online shaming. We have all seen cancel culture play out online. Maybe you’ve even joined a cancel party yourself. Whether it was your favourite YouTuber getting cancelled from some wild 2010 tweets, or a large company getting cancelled after being exposed for mistreating […]
(Mind the) Digital Skills Gap
90% of all jobs now require digital skills but how many of us have the skills required to fill those jobs? And if we don’t have the skills, how do we gain them? It’s no longer the case that you have to be a website designer, or similar, to be digitally capable. The influence of […]
Fake News: Real Life Consequences Hosted by Richie Brave
By now most of us have heard of the term, Fake News. Some of us may even be thinking about how we equip young people with the tools to navigate Fake News online. And for a select few, protecting young people from Fake News may be part of our duty of care; parents, teachers, youth […]
Digital Citizenship: Training Webinar
Beatfreeks has teamed up with UK Youth to deliver Be Internet Citizens, an innovative training and resource programme for educators and youth workers – supported by Google.org and YouTube. This training event equips those who work directly with young people with the tools to teach them how to become safe users of the web, and […]