Media literacy and expanding public spaces: cultures, policies and risks in the Baltic countries

Abstract

Understanding media and its role in education and socialization has been a rather diversified process, in terms of the perspectives, practices and actors involved in media and information literacy (MIL) – from a protectionist and reactive approach, which perceives media as a threat and danger, to the perception of media as a tool of public empowerment, promoting institutional, structural and individual change in contemporary society. What is expected of people in such a society is to acquire the skills and resources necessary to navigate complex and permanently unstable social and technological networks.[...]