Media and Information Literacy in the Western Balkans: Unrealized Emancipatory Potential

“With this publication and the regional project we do not mean to suggest that media and information literacy is the answer to all problems and failures of media policy and media system reforms in the countries of the region. Quite to the contrary, media reforms are imperative. But we see media and information literacy as something bigger than any media policy instrument or media reform. It is about the overall potential of our societies to cope with challenges of media and information order, and its interaction with political systems of our time. It is a condition for informed citizenship, for critical thinking, and for making democracy functional.”