The European Commission has released a communication entitled “A European approach to media literacy in the digital environment”, which results from a public consultation on media literacy, held across the European Union (EU) in 2006.
This communication is the first policy document on media literacy at the EU level and covers the following areas:
- media literacy for commercial communication, covering issues related to advertising;
- media literacy for audiovisual works, which is in part about raising awareness of European film and enhancing creativity skills; and
- media literacy for online which, for example, will give citizens a better knowledge of how Google and other Internet search engines work.
Further information:
- Report on the Results of the Public Consultation on Media Literacy http://ec.europa.eu/avpolicy/media_literacy/docs/report_on_ml_2007.pdf
- ''Media literacy: do people really understand how to make the most of blogs, search engines or interactive TV?'' http://www.europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/07/1970&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
Related information on ANACOM's website:
- Communication from the Commission - COM(2007) 833 final http://ec.europa.eu/avpolicy/media_literacy/docs/com20070833final.pdf