[ecrea] New TATS COST Publication: Critical insights in European media literacy research and policy - in Media Studies 3(6), 2012

New publication of the COST Action IS0906 Transforming Audiences, 
Transforming Societies

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MEDIA STUDIES, Vol. 3 (2012) No. 6

Media Studies is Croatian, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal that 
provides an international forum for the presentation of research and 
advancement of discourse concerning media, communications, journalism, 
and public relations, within each field’s cultural, historical, 
political and/or economic contexts.



SPECIAL ISSUE

Critical insights in European media literacy research and policy

Online open access:

http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=toc&id_broj=7793



This special issue has resulted from the work of the Task Force on 
“Media Literacy” of the Working group 1 of the COST Action IS0906 
“Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies”.



Special Issue Guest Editors

Sonia Livingstone London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Tao Papaioannou University of Nicosia, Cyprus

María del Mar Grandío Pérez Catholic University San Antonio, Spain

Christine W. Wijnen University of Vienna, Austria


This issue

This special issue includes 16 contributions from 24 authors, covering a 
considerable range of conceptual, methodological as well as educational 
issues in the recent media literacy discourse.

Table of Contents

Sonia Livingstone, Tao Papaioannou, María del Mar Grandío Pérez and 
Christine W. Wijnen: Critical Insights in European Media Literacy 
Research and Policy

MEDIA LITERACY: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES

Divina Frau-Meigs: Transliteracy as the New Research Horizon for Media 
and Information Literacy

Sian Barber: Understanding Online Audio-Visual Content: A European 
Initiative, Media Literacy and the User

Senta Pfaff-Rüdiger, Claudia Riesmeyer and Anna Kümpel: Media Literacy 
and Developmental Tasks: A Case Study in Germany

Uwe Hasebrink: The Role of the Audience within Media Governance: The 
Neglected Dimension of Media Literacy



MEDIA LITERACY: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
Paolo Celot: EAVI Studies on Media Literacy in Europe

Monica E. Bulger: Measuring Media Literacy in a National Context: 
Challenges of Definition, Method and Implementation



MEDIA LITERACY: EDUCATIONAL ISSUES

Hans Martens: Arguing for a Contextual Approach to European Media 
Education Research

Jos de Haan and Nathalie Sonck: Digital Skills in Perspective: A 
Critical Reflection on Research and Policy

Carmen Marta-Lazo and María del Mar Grandío Pérez: Critical Insights in 
Media Literacy Research in Spain: Educational and Political Challenges

Ben Andrews and Julian McDougall: Curation Pedagogy for Media Studies: 
(Further) Towards the Inexpert



BOOK REVIEWS

Peter Lunt, Sonia Livingstone, Media Regulation: Governance and the 
Interests of Citizens and Consumers – Fausto Colombo

Lana Ciboci, Igor Kanižaj, Danijel Labaš (eds), Djeca medija: Od 
marginalizacije do senzacije / Children of the Media: From 
Marginalization to Sensation – Stjepka Popovic'

Gerison Lansdown, Vidi me, c(uj me: Vodic( za uporabu konvencije UN-a o 
pravima osoba s invaliditetom i promicanje prava djece / See Me, Hear 
Me: A Guide to Using the UN Convention on the Rights of Person with 
Disabilities to Promote the Rights of Children – Stjepka Popovic'

Viktorija Car (ed.), Putokazi prema slobodnim i odgovornim medijima / 
Guideposts to Free and Accountable Media – Lejla Turc(ilo

David Gauntlett, Making is Connecting – The Social Meaning of 
Creativity, from DIY and Knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0 – Neven Benko

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