European Journalism in the Digital Age 2018 talk focusing on the development of media literacy workshops and classes in Slovenia while making a difference between media and digital literacy and the problems equalisation of those two terms bring.

1. Media literacy is not digital
literacy
Case studies in Slovenia
Domen Savič, Državljan D

2. Domen Savič
domen@drzavljand.si
@drzavljand / drzavljand.si
Journalism
Marketing
Media theories
Digital activism

3. What are we talking
about?

4. Media literacy
Media literacy refers to all the technical, cognitive,
social, civic and creative capacities that allow us to
access and have a critical understanding of and
interact with media. These capacities allow us to
exercise critical thinking, while participating in the
economic, social and cultural aspects of society and
playing an active role in the democratic process.
Digital literacy
Digital competence involves the confident and
critical use of information Society technology (IST)
for work, leisure, learning and communication. It is
underpinned by basic skills in ICT: the use of
computers to retrieve, access, store, produce,
present and exchange information, and to
communicate and participate in collaborative
networks via the Internet.

5. Media literacy Digital literacy

6. This creates problems
Media literacy is mistaken for creative writing course
Digital literacy is mistaken for media literacy
Both are perceived as single-disciplinary traits
None of them are sustainable

7. What is missing?

8. Missing items
Theory
Definitions
Curriculum
Interdisciplinary thinking
Responsibility awareness
Practice
Literature and manuals
Trained tutors
Open-minded policy developers
Long-term commitment

9. The consequences
Media literacy is
treated as a
quick fix
Media literacy
is
politicized
Media literacy is
perceived as a
placebo
Media literacy
is
not systematized
Solutions are
not sustainable
Curriculum is
influenced by
party agenda
Schools lack
professional
tutors
Programs are
built ad hoc
without long-
term effect

10. Results are bad
Children are being taught useless things
Quick-fix solutions cloud the problem of social integration
Solutions are not future-proof

11. What are we doing?

12. Interdisciplinary approach
Combining
sociology and
computer
sciences
Media theory
and media
practice
Digital media
component
Media content
production
stages
Media
consumption
and genres
Media
regulation and
self-regulation
Mass media as a
fourth estate

13. Continued activities
2015 - Tour across Slovenia
10 schools, 10 hours per school
2017 - CodeWeek.eu
3 schools, 3 hours per school
2018 - Experimental implementation into curriculum
120 hours in 6 classes

14. Lessons learned
Start from the bottom
Less red tape, more ways to develop new methods
Learn from your own mistakes and adapt future implementations
Think interdisciplinary
Go back to basics
Media literacy will be here no matter the form and shape of media
Remember why media literacy matters in democracies
Think long-term
Do not make media literacy a one-trick pony

15. Questions