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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 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

New Research on Adult Media Literacy in Australia Launched

New research supported by AMLA on Adult Media Literacy in Australia was launched today at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House. Co-authored by Associate Professor Tanya Notley, Dr Simon Chambers, Professor Sora Park and Professor Michael Dezuanni, the research examines Australian media

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

Australian Research Project Website Launched

To discover more about the research project, ‘Addressing Misinformation with Media Literacy through Cultural Institutions’, you can check out the new website. This project brings together leading Australian media literacy researchers with four national public cultural institutions, to address this research gap and respond to