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 appraisal of media, information, computer and digital literacies as they coalesce and diverge in the public debate over twenty-first-century skills. The contributors assess the various definitions of media and information literacy as a composite notion whose evolution as a cross-cultural phenomenon reveals various trends and influences in Europe. Throughout, this volume offers an in-depth coverage of MIL with all the different dimensions of policy-making, from legal frameworks to training, funding, evaluation and good practices. The authors propose modeling current MIL governance trends in Europe and conclude with a call for alternative and collective frames of research that they hope will influence policy-makers and other stakeholders, especially in terms of MIL governance.

This collection is ideal for students and researchers of MIL, as well as policy makers, educators and associations interested in MIL in the digital age.

Published in association with the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), books in the series make a major contribution to the theory, research, practice and/or policy literature. They are European in scope and represent a diversity of perspectives.

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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