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

This book offers the first analysis on public policies in Media, information and computer literacy in Europe.

It assesses the available training in and resources for primary and secondary schools, the funding mdevoted to it (or lack thereof), the participation of civil society and the means and measure to evaluate hese literacies across 29 countries. The chapters are representative of national and regional diversity within Europe, each one being written by three authors from different European countries in what is a truly collaborative project based on qualitative comparative analysis.

Overall, the book offers a unique map of the actual media education policies that exist within Europe.

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.