Research and analysis: Cross-sectoral challenges to media literacy

A study of the challenges facing the UK media literacy landscape in relation to coordination, funding, evaluation and other issues that emerged through the research, and of the approaches taken to media literacy education in international contexts.

From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Published 29 September 2023

Cross-sectoral challenges to media literacy

Ref: DSIT Research Paper Series Number: 2023/032

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This research was carried out by The London School of Economics and Political Science, and was commissioned to provide a more nuanced understanding of the challenges facing the UK’s media literacy landscape, as set out in the government’s Online Media Literacy Strategy.

The research objectives were:

1. to develop an accurate picture of the challenges the media literacy sector faces
2. to gain insights from a rigorous comparison of other international contexts
3. to identify opportunities for intervention from government and other actors to improve the UK media literacy landscape.

The research was a stakeholder-centric, in-depth exploration using five different data collection methods: stakeholder workshops; individual interviews with six funders of media literacy initiatives; an academic roundtable; 11 comparative international case analyses; and a quantitative survey.