Media and Information Literacy: Other resources

UNESCO supports the development of Media and Information Literacy and Digital Competencies for all to enable people’s ability to engage critically with information, navigate the online environment safely and responsibly and ensure there can be trust in our information ecosystem and in digital technologies.
Media and Information Literacy provides a set of essential skills to address the challenges of the 21st century including the proliferation of mis- and disinformation and hate speech, the decline of trust in media and digital innovations notably Artificial Intelligence.

As the leading voice, convener, and resource for media literacy education, NAMLE aims to make media literacy highly valued and widely practiced as an essential life skill.

The CMIL works with educators, scholars, parents, children, youth, and the media industry to advance critical analysis of media and the implementation of media literacy programs and advocate for media literacy education.

Information Literacy site is run by information professionals from key UK organisations actively involved in the field of information literacy.

This game will hopefully teach you that the information choices and decisions you make can have both positive and negative consequences on the larger society.

This publication is a contribution to responsible online communication.

The story teaches the reader how to be MIL by evaluating the news, media, and information around us.

The Framework offered here is based on a cluster of interconnected core concepts with flexible implementation options rather than on a set of standards or learning outcomes or any prescriptive enumeration of skills.

The purpose of the Framework is to demonstrate what media and information literacy means for people in everyday life and in various recognisable settings. It thus seeks to make media and information literacy understandable by relating it to situations with which everyone can readily identify.

Framework developed by Australian Media Literacy Alliance. AMLA is an unincorporated group of organisations whose objectives in the area of media literacy are closely aligned.

Global Media and Information Literacy Assessment Framework: country readiness and competencies from UNESCO equips policy makers with a strategic framework, supported by evidence-based information, for taking concrete actions to ensure that all citizens acquire media and information competencies.

The University of Sheffield’s Information and Digital Literacy Framework

The Media Literacy Index 2023, Policy Brief
Measuring Vulnerability of Societies to Disinformation

Podcast: The topic of this episode is why it is important for everyone to become media and information literate. In the information era, we must take Media and Information Literacy (MIL) seriously more than ever (published in 2023).

The aim of this study was to advance understanding of how to foster media literacy among older people.

Librarians and (public) libraries are active in promoting information literacy and (more recently) media literacy. After a brief historical sketch, this document describes how public libraries assist patrons and educational institutions in enhancing knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to critically engage with media and information. It sketches international organizations' endeavours to put media and information literacy (MIL) on the policy agenda, describes what is (not yet) known about the effectiveness of MIL programs,
and offers recommendations for EU and public library policy.

his research aims to study the relation between the media literacy and information literacy of the students of the fields of communication science and information science and knowledge.

It is a relevant reference point to initiate discussion and offer perspectives to stakeholders seeking to apply MIL as a tool to counter violent extremism. There is evident need for evidence-based research, assessment and evaluation that can provide insight into the impact of media and information literacy on societies.

The article describes the features of the European approach to media and information literacy.

Electronic version of the first media and information literacy training manual in Kazakhstan.

The book consists of three parts. In the first part, a number of articles of a more general nature
discuss media and information literacy (MIL) as well as courses of development on national, regional and global levels. The focus in the second part is on Sweden, the host the UNESCO Global MIL Week Feature Conference in 2019. The articles in this part present current research findings, policy decisions and political initiatives and some examples of ‘best practices’ in various areas. The third part presents a new approach to MIL in a context of social change and Agenda 2030.