Author

Divina Frau-Meigs, Irma Velez, Julieta Flores Michel

Year

2017

Publisher

Routledge

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Abstract

Media and information literacy has benefited from a series of European Commission programmes over the past decade, particularly since its inclusion in the Audiovisual Media Services Directive. Thierry Vedel provides a panorama of five governance models in relation to communication networks in a manner that could be tested for Media and Information Literacy (MIL) as it is located at the crossroads of media and education: state governance, international regime governance, communitarian governance, market-driven governance and associative governance. Governance theory calls for scoping models to provide for ongoing assessments of the local MIL situations. Regarding the composite definition of MIL, the term often relates to three distinct literacies, when the term is not restricted to pre-2011 'media education'. The role of regulatory media authorities seems fully present in countries with a greater tradition in MIL, yet trends show that they seem stabilized with little progression.

Keywords

Media and Information Literacy, Critical Media Literacy