Towards a National Strategy for Media Literacy. Research report

Recommendation 1: The Australian Government Recommendation 8: The strategy should outline should commit to developing and appropriately the relationship between Media Literacy and the resourcing a strategy for the development of broader media and communications context in Media Literacy across all life stages, enabling the Australia, including telecommunications engagement of all levels of governm. [...] The participants great deal of focus on Media Literacy as a discussed the research findings of AMLA’s adult response to urgent issues such as misinformation media literacy survey, shared their expertise and and its impacts on democracy; the emergence ideas, and together explored what is needed to of digital and social media as key players in our accelerate the development and media and information. [...] were asked to discuss: The 2021 Australian Senate Inquiry Report Into • the case for seeking to improve Media Nationhood, National Identity and Democracy Literacy and why it is worthy of the efforts of recommends that the Australian Government a diverse range of stakeholders should work with the Australian Media Literacy • the Media Literacy strengths and needs of Alliance, through a co-design pro. [...] Defining Media Literacy Information Media Literacy has existed as a concept in Australia and internationally for several decades Literacy and has historically been applied to media such as print media, film, television and advertising, Figure 1: The interconnections between Media Literacy, Digital well before the emergence of digital media and Literacy, Information Literacy and Online Safety. [...] The benefits of a ‘…All aspects of society, whether consumers of the media or producers of the media and government, have a responsibility to discern which [media and media literate misinformation] impacts the overall health and well-being of our society’.