1st Edition

Public Policies in Media and Information Literacy in Europe Cross-Country Comparisons

322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

Public Policies in Media and Information Literacy in Europe explores the current tensions in European countries as they attempt to tackle the transition to the digital age, providing a comparative and cross-cultural analysis of Media and Information Literacy (MIL) across Europe. This book takes a long-term perspective over the development of media education in Europe, and includes an... Read more

Contents

 

List of figures

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

List of contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1/ Mapping Media and Information Literacy (MIL) policies: new perspectives for the governance of MIL

Divina Frau-Meigs, Irma Velez, Julieta Flores-Michel

Chapter 2/ Definitions and values of Media and Information Literacy in a historical context

Christine W. Trültzsch-Wijnen, María Francesca Murru & Tao Papaioannou

Chapter 3/ Legal frameworks for Media and Information Literacy

María-del-Mar Grandío, Sirin Dilli & Brian O’Neill

Chapter 4/ Training and capacity building in Media and Information Literacy

 Julian McDougall, Nurcay Turkoglu & Igor Kanižaj

Chapter 5/ The role of non-governmental actors in Media and Information Literacy: a comparative media systems perspective

Marijana Matović, Kristina Juraitė, Alfonso Gutiérrez

Chapter 6/ Evaluation and funding of Media and Information Literacy

Piermarco Aroldi, Miguel Vicente, Norbert Vrabec

Chapter 7/ Good practices and Emerging trends trends in Media and Information Literacy

Conceicao Costa, Viktorija Car & Sofia Papadimitriou

Chapter 8/ The double bind of Media and Information Literacy: A critical view on public policy discourses about MIL

Kirsten Drotner, Divina Frau-Meigs, Sirkku Kotilainen & Niina Uusitalo

 

Appendix

Index

Biography

Divina Frau-Meigs is Professor of Media Sociology and American Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. With degrees from the Sorbonne University, Stanford University and the Annenberg School for Communications, she is a specialist of media and information technologies in English-speaking countries, in a comparative perspective. Her research interests span from MIL to the cultures of the screen to internet governance within the human rights framework. She directs the ANR TRANSIT project and holds the UNESCO chair "Savoir Deuchir in the digital era". She presides the Social Sciences and humanities committee of the French National Research Agency.

Irma Velez is an Associate Professor of Spanish language and cultures (literature and visual arts) at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, in the teacher training department (ESPE) where she is the digital mentor for teacher trainees in her field. Her research interests encompass media convergence and media politics, from the "decolonial" Spanish-speaking literary and cinematographic productions to European public policies for capacity building in MIL and digital literacy. She is particularly keen on analyzing the dialectic between gender and technology in mediated cultures.

Julieta Flores Michel is Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico, she is a guest expert researcher at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her research interests include studies of culture, communication and information technologies, communicative competence, gender equality, and public policies in MIL in Europe.