Editors: Cary Bazalgette and Roy Stafford
What media do media educators deal with? On 14th December, Ed Balls announced a new government commitment to ‘promoting greater media literacy for young people’, but glossed this as ’how schools can help boost children’s online skills and teach young people about how to stay safe online’.
There is a depressing familiarity about this position: media education only ever attracts the attention of government when it can be linked to public anxieties about the effects of the latest media trends. We still live with the anomaly of statutory responsibility for media literacy resting with the regulator Ofcom.
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