E-Tick Online Course on Ethical Communications
ethicalcommunication.org, 2020
Summary Description
E-Tick is a self-paced, free-to-access, online course for those wanting to further their critical thinking skills, explore different angles on communication (including ethics and power), and strengthen their media literacy skills, such as knowledge of how social media works. The course comprises various readings and reflections, webinars and online materials which guide learners to reflect on what their readings can tell them about themselves and how their communications (and those of others) are always of consequence. Topics addressed include power and communication, stereotyping and its relationships with prejudice and discrimination, the problem with good intentions, perspectives on global development, and digital literacy for the new media age.
Title
E-Tick Online Course on Ethical Communications
Author
ethicalcommunication.org
Date
2020
Resource Type or sub-type
Training and Learning Resource, Training tools
Mainly suitable for
Board members; Communications staff; Community leaders or educators; Contractors; Education and Public Engagement staff; Overseas staff; fundraising/marketing staff; HR/Training staff; Management; Partners; Programme Staff; Volunteers; Young people
Level of Accessibility
Introductory material (easy to read or understand)
Ethical Communications Issues or Groups Addressed
Advertising and/or fundraising; Coloniality and De-coloniality; Ethnocentrism, stereotypes and/or racism; Framing/narratives/stories; Images and Messages; Media representations; People in the pictures; Social Media; Solidarity
Ethical Communications Processes or Practices Addressed
Decoloniality/anti-racism; Cultural Competency