Public Policies in Media and Information Literacy in Europe

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.

• List of figuresList of tablesList of contributorsAcknowledgementsList of abbreviations IntroductionPART IGlobal analysis of European public policies in MIL Chapter 1/ Mapping media and information literacy policies: new perspectives for the governance of MILDivina Frau-Meigs, Irma Velez, Julieta Flores MichelPART IIMIL dimensions across countries: a qualitative approach Chapter 2/ Definitions and values of media and information literacy in a historical contextChristine W. Trültzsch-Wijnen, María Francesca Murru and Tao PapaioannouChapter 3/ Legal frameworks for media and information literacy María-del-Mar Grandío, Sirin Dilli and Brian O’NeillChapter 4/ Training and capacity-building in media and information literacyJulian McDougall, Nurcay Turkoglu and Igor KanižajChapter 5/ The role of non-governmental actors in media and information literacy: a comparative media systems perspective Marijana Matović, Kristina Juraitė and Alfonso GutiérrezChapter 6/ Evaluation and funding of media and information literacyPiermarco Aroldi, Miguel Vicente, Norbert Vrabec PART IIICritical perspectives Chapter 7/ Good practices and emerging trends trends in media and information literacyConceicao Costa, Viktorija Car and Sofia PapadimitriouChapter 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 and Niina UusitaloAppendix 1: Map and ISO2 codes of participating European countries Appendix 2: Template with guidelines for reporting phase Appendix 3: Scoreboard for scoping phase Appendix 4: Experts by country for the national reports Appendix 5: Bibliography of national reports by country Index

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