Media literacy: the UK’s undead cultural policy
Authors: Wallis, R. and Buckingham, D.
Journal: International Journal of Cultural Policy
Volume: 25
Issue: 2
Pages: 188-203
eISSN: 1477-2833
ISSN: 1028-6632
DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2016.1229314
Abstract:This article examines media literacy in the UK: a policy that emerged within the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in the late 1990s, was adopted by the New Labour administration, and enshrined in the Communications Act 2003. That legislation gave the new media regulator, Ofcom, a duty to ‘promote’ media literacy, although it left the term undefined. The article describes how Ofcom managed this regulatory duty. It argues that over time, media literacy was progressively reduced in scope, focusing on two policy priorities related to the growth of the internet. In the process, media literacy’s broader educative purpose, so clearly articulated in much of the early policy rhetoric, was effectively marginalized. From the Coalition government onwards, the promotion of media literacy was reduced further to a matter of market research. Today, if not altogether dead, the policy is governed by entirely different priorities to those imagined at its birth.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/24585/
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Media literacy: the UK's undead cultural policy
Authors: Wallis, R. and Buckingham, D.
Journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL POLICY
Volume: 25
Issue: 2
Pages: 188-203
eISSN: 1477-2833
ISSN: 1028-6632
DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2016.1229314
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/24585/
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Media Literacy: The UK’s undead cultural policy
Authors: Wallis, R. and Buckingham, D
Journal: The International Journal of Cultural Policy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles
ISSN: 1477-2833
Abstract:This article examines media literacy in the UK: a policy that emerged within the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in the late 1990s, was adopted by the New Labour administration, and enshrined in the Communications Act 2003. That legislation gave the new media regulator, Ofcom, a duty to ‘promote’ media literacy, although it left the term undefined. The article describes how Ofcom managed this regulatory duty. It argues that over time, media literacy was progressively reduced in scope, focusing on two policy priorities related to the growth of the internet. In the process, media literacy’s broader educative purpose, so clearly articulated in much of the early policy rhetoric, was effectively marginalized. From the Coalition government onwards, the promotion of media literacy was reduced further to a matter of market research. Today, if not altogether dead, the policy is governed by entirely different priorities to those imagined at its birth.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/24585/
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Media literacy: the UK’s undead cultural policy
Authors: Wallis, R. and Buckingham, D
Journal: The International Journal of Cultural Policy
Volume: 25
Issue: 2
Pages: 188-203
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles
ISSN: 1477-2833
DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2016.1229314
Abstract:This article examines media literacy in the UK: a policy that emerged within the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in the late 1990s, was adopted by the New Labour administration, and enshrined in the Communications Act 2003. That legislation gave the new media regulator, Ofcom, a duty to ‘promote’ media literacy, although it left the term undefined. The article describes how Ofcom managed this regulatory duty. It argues that over time, media literacy was progressively reduced in scope, focusing on two policy priorities related to the growth of the internet. In the process, media literacy’s broader educative purpose, so clearly articulated in much of the early policy rhetoric, was effectively marginalized. From the Coalition government onwards, the promotion of media literacy was reduced further to a matter of market research. Today, if not altogether dead, the policy is governed by entirely different priorities to those imagined at its birth.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/24585/
Source: Manual
Media Literacy: The UK’s undead cultural policy
Authors: Wallis, R. and Buckingham, D.
Journal: International Journal of Cultural Policy
Volume: 25
Issue: 2
Pages: 188-203
ISSN: 1028-6632
Abstract:This article examines media literacy in the UK: a policy that emerged within the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in the late 1990s, was adopted by the New Labour administration, and enshrined in the Communications Act 2003. That legislation gave the new media regulator, Ofcom, a duty to ‘promote’ media literacy, although it left the term undefined. The article describes how Ofcom managed this regulatory duty. It argues that over time, media literacy was progressively reduced in scope, focusing on two policy priorities related to the growth of the internet. In the process, media literacy’s broader educative purpose, so clearly articulated in much of the early policy rhetoric, was effectively marginalized. From the Coalition government onwards, the promotion of media literacy was reduced further to a matter of market research. Today, if not altogether dead, the policy is governed by entirely different priorities to those imagined at its birth.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/24585/
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