Media literacy skills, knowledge and confidence are fundamental in being able to navigate our digital world. Young people need to be inspired and supported to engage with the news and media they consume
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Since its launch at the end of 2021, MILA has functioned as an informal association. This arrangement has worked well during its foundational stages, but it is now time to move on and to set the Alliance up on a more formal basis with a legal personality of its own. This should enable MILA to
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A research project is currently underway, funded by government and led by academics at the London School of Economics, to understand the challenges facing the media literacy sector. As part of the research, a survey of practitioners across the sector is being conducted to identify the importance of the different challenges and opportunities identified during
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By Carolyn Waite Digital skills are nationally recognised as a key area of development for staff in public libraries who offer support and assistance to those people who are digitally excluded and those who need help finding reliable information online. In May 2022 two new eLearning modules were launched on the Libraries Connected Learning Pool
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MILA is delighted to be associated with a new project, ‘Evaluating Media Literacy with a Theory of Change’, led by Professor Julian McDougall, Head of the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth University. The project was recently awarded through the Media Literacy Programme Fund, following a call for proposals, during the summer, from
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By Sophie Randall How do we tackle the scourge of health misinformation in non-communicable disease? Through novel partnerships between nation states, the social and digital media industries and civil society, according to a new World Health Organisation (WHO) toolkit on tackling misinformation in non-communicable disease. Google’s own figures show there were more than a billion
Dr Peter Cruikshank, Dr Bruce Ryan and Marina Milosheva – Edinburgh Napier University In association with MILA We are proud the announce the release of the results of review of literature on information literacy (IL) impact. We believe it is the beginning of a process of creating a framework for impactful IL interventions, including the
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MILA invites proposals for research to produce a comprehensive review about information literacy and society. Applications welcome by 1 July 2022.
Call for proposals: information literacy and society Read More »
CILIP and the MILA have just pulled together a guide and a short list of resources to help address the issue around disinformation and ‘fake news’ around the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Combatting disinformation – the war in Ukraine Read More »
The Media and Information Literacy Alliance is delighted to announce the setting up of its new Board, which held its inaugural meeting on 17 January 2022. The Board will provide high-level strategic oversight for MILA and lie at the heart of the Alliance’s governance. It is currently made up of ten individuals, representing a wide
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