The Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media met on Wednesday, 2 February, to discuss online disinformation and media literacy. There were two Oireachtas sessions. The first featured Professor Mary Aiken, Professor of Forensic Cyberpsychology, University of East London. Her opening statement can be found here. The second session featured MLI Co-Chair Prof. Brian
The first Media Literacy Monday webinar of 2022 took place on the 24th January and explored the question of how to support the media literacy needs of children and young people. Some of those needs may be linked using online technology and services safely and securely, other media literacy needs may be linked to critical
A consultation has been launched to collect views and insights on Safeguarding Media Freedom in the EU. Responses are being sought from citizens, relevant Member States’ authorities and bodies, academics, media actors (both private and public service media) and umbrella organisations representing any of the interested stakeholders. The consultation opened on the 10th January and
The recently adopted 2022 Creative Europe programme includes a new Media Literacy funding call under the News Media strand of the programme. This funding call will support the development of innovative cross-border media literacy initiatives and communities across Europe, in a continuously changing digital media landscape and taking into account current user behaviour among various
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has published a fact sheet of the impact of gender and diversity in news consumption in Ireland drawing on data from the Reuters Digital News Reports. The additional analysis, carried out by the DCU Institute of Future Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo), examines the role of gender and diversity in
On the 12th January, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, published the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill, paving the way for a new body to regulate online services and to reduce the availability of harmful content. Key features of the Bill include The new regulator will be a
Safer Internet Day 2022 is just around the corner on Tuesday, February 8th! Coordinated and promoted in Ireland by Webwise, Safer Internet Day has grown to become the key date in the online safety calendar. Here are some simple ways to get involved and help to support Safer Internet Day 2022 and help promote a
By Iglika Ivanova, Media Literacy Coalition Bulgaria In 2018, through volunteer efforts, the Media Literacy Coalition (MLC) in Bulgaria started the initiative “Media Literacy Days” and held its first national conference. From then on Media Literacy Coalition organises two major campaigns each year – “Media Literacy Days” in the first half of the year, traditionally