Digital and Media Literacy

The EDMO Executive Board has released a statement on the reports of the signatories of the Strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation in which they call for more accuracy, clarity and transparency in the reporting.…

by Nicola Bruno, Open the Box, Dataninja & University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. How to select a trustworthy source to be included in an essay? How to moderate a debate in the classroom…

by Kate Morris, Ofcom, UK. What is evaluation, and why should charities and other organisations running projects focused on media literacy, care about it? This question lies at the heart of the Evaluation Toolkit, the…

by Madelyn Garcia, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines. Research and advocacy that link children’s rights to their digital environments are gaining attention and shaping initiatives that underscore children’s welfare, learning, and development in…

by Ruurd Oosterwoud, DROG, The Netherlands. Disinformation is constantly changing. Disinformation adapts, evolves, and is based on new premises. Those tackling disinformation respond to this. The result has been the emergence of what we describe…

by Skúli Bragi Geirdal, Media Commission, Iceland. I present Iceland, the best country in the world… per capita. The land of ice and fire. Glaciers and volcanoes. A land of immense natural beauty. Northern lights,…

mSchools Media Literacy Challenge addresses media and informational literacy-related needs in classrooms from Argentina, Catalonia, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Portugal. Starting with identifying and selecting the best learning experiences, it will continue transferring tools, resources…

by Alice Bougnères, SQUARE, France. Only 10% of French youth can distinguish a fact from an opinion. The nation’s low level of literacy combined with a widespread anti-elite mentality and a growing identity-based defensive mindset…

EDMO has just published a new report: Pandemic, war and more: 18 months of disinformation providing an overview of the main disinformation topics, narratives and most viral false news detected by the EDMO fact-checking network between June 2021 and…