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Author: Tanya Notley

AMLA welcome a new Chair

Professor Michael Dezuanni will serve as the Chair of AMLA 2025-2027. Michael leads the Creating Better Digital Futures program in the Digital Media Research Centre and is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child at Queensland University of Technology.

Media literacy scholar Paul Mihailidis to visit Australia

This month AMLA members hosted leading U.S. media literacy scholar, Paul Mihailidis. Dr Mihailidis is a professor of civic media and journalism and Special Advisor to the provost at Emerson College in Boston and faculty chair and director of the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change.

Safer Internet Day: Together for a better internet

AMLA join people around the world who are celebrating Safer Internet Day 2025 on Tuesday February 11. Safer Internet Day is a global day of action that encourages communities, schools, organisations and families to work towards a safer internet. We support the slogan of ‘Together for

AMLA MEDIA RELEASE – 16 December 2024

MEDIA RELEASE – 16 December 2024 The Australian Media Literacy Alliance (AMLA) is delighted with the announcement that the Australian Government is committing $3.8 million dollars towards a co-designed National Media Literacy Strategy as part of new funding to establish the News Media Assistance Program

AMLA MEDIA RELEASE – 03 December 2024

NEWS MEDIA RELEASE – 3 December 2024 The Australian Media Literacy Alliance (AMLA) continues to call for a national strategy for media literacy, following the passage through the Australian Parliament of the under 16s social media ban (Online Safety Amendment [Social Media Minimum Age] Bill).

AMLA members discuss adult media literacy on Radio National

Founding members of AMLA, Annabel Astbury, Head of ABC Education and Tanya Notley, Associate Professor of Digital Media and Communication at Western Sydney University, appeared on ABC Radio National’s LifeMatters program this week to discuss how we can use media literacy education to respond to

Brazil’s Strategic Approach to Media Literacy

I met Mariana Filizola at the G20 Promoting Information Integrity meetings in Sao Paolo which she helped organise as the General Coordinator for Media Education in the Brazilian Ministry of Social Communication. Mariana leads the Department for Media Education which was established by the Lula