MIL Summit 2022' and the Release of the Findings of 'Study on MIL Education in Sri Lanka'
Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) supported the ‘Study on Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Education in Sri Lanka’, an assessment of the trends and gaps and it was facilitated by the Department of Media Studies, University of Jaffna as per the Memorandum of Understanding signed between Center for Media and Information Literacy (CMIL), a collaborative partner organization of CEMCA and UoJ. On par with this, the ‘MIL Summit 2022’ is organized to share major findings of the study with the media and communication academics, researchers, and students on 27th of July 2022, virtually, with the collaboration of the Department of Media Studies, UoJ, Department of Sinhala and Mass Communication of the University of Sri Jayawardanepura, CEMCA and The FACTS.
The summit was arranged under the title of ‘Critical Media Consumption in the Age of Internet’.
The opening note with the declaration of the objective of the Summit was given by Dr. Senani Harischandra, Senior Lecturer, University of Sri Jayawardanepura.
The event was facilitated by Prof. S. Raguram, Head / Department of Media Studies, University of Jaffna.
The Keynote Speech was delivered by Dr. Ankuran Dutta, Associate Professor, and the Head, Department of Communication and Journalism, Guwahati University, Guwahati, Assam, India.
The Guest Speech was given by Prof. Aparnaa Sharma, Department of World Arts and Cultures and Dance, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA.
The presentation of the ‘Study on MIL Education in Sri Lanka’ was made by Dr. M.C.Rasmin, an Independent Researcher and the Author of ‘Study on MIL Education in Sri Lanka’.
More than a hundred participants were gathered in the Summit from University of Sri Jayawardanepura, University of Jaffna, University of Kelaniya, Open University of Sri Lanka, University of Colombo and Trincomalee Campus, Eastern University.
