1. Introduction 2. Bytes and reality: how digital media shapes our lives 2.1. Media culture and consumerism 2.2. Media influence on audiences 3. Fragmented realities: postmodern experience 3.1. Navigating digital media in postmodern conditions: challenges and opportunities 3.2. Postmodern perspective on media literacy and active citizenship 4. Why media literacy? 4.1. Empowering “digital natives”: teaching children about smart and responsible media practices 4.2. Media education is lifelong learning 5. Democracy’s core: citizens at the heart of e-democracy 5.1. Digital bridges: connecting citizens and civil society organisations 5.2. Empowering tomorrow: the imperative of digital citizenship education 6. Conclusion
Biography
Mateja Rek is a professor in the Faculty of Information Studies in Novo Mesto and the School of Advanced Social Studies in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. Her research focuses on media education and literacy, drawing on extensive findings from the Infrastructure Program on Media Literacy, a project she leads that has been collecting, managing and archiving data on media literacy in Slovenia since 2013. She is a researcher in the programme Development Processes and Interactions in the Digital Society in the Faculty of Information Studies, funded by the Slovene Research and Innovation Agency, and a member of the European Network on Digitalization and E-Governance, a Jean Monnet Policy Debate project funded by Erasmus+.
