The 2024 MLI Annual Conference will take place on 4 December in The Foundry in Dublin, kindly hosted by Google.
The theme for the conference is ‘Media Literacy for All’ and we want to use this opportunity to share, learn and consider together what the promotion of media literacy will look like in the coming years.
We are delighted to confirm that our keynote speech will be delivered by Professor Leo Pekkala from KAVI in Finland, and more speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.
There will be plenty of opportunities to meet and mingle with other MLI members and media literacy practitioners. Check out your MLI member messages for the registration link and if you would like to secure exhibition space to show off your work, please email info@medialiteracyireland.ie
Draft Agenda
9.00 Coffee and registration
10:00 Opening address
10.10 MLI Review
10:20 Keynote: ‘Building resilience from the cradle to the grave’, Leo Pekkala, KAVI, Finland
10:50 Media literacy for all: What does the future hold? The Big Questions
What are the factors that are likely to impact media literacy development in the near to mid-term future? How should MLI, and MLI members, respond to these factors? This feature panel discussion will provide both context and thought-provoking questions for the MLI membership and media literacy practitioners to consider around the following topics:
- Media regulation and media literacy
- AI and media literacy
- Disinformation and media literacy
- Media freedom, media pluralism and trust in the media.
11:40 Coffee (access to exhibition space/workshops)
12:00 Media literacy for all: What does the future hold? Breakout sessions
Attendees will be asked to work collaboratively to explore the questions posed in the feature panel earlier.
13:15 Lunch (access to exhibition space/workshops)
14:15 Lightning talks: Embedding media literacy in communities
This series of short presentations of case-study projects, which deliver media literacy learning in the heart of communities, will be followed by a ‘lessons learned and next steps’ discussion addressing issues such as selecting the right partners, meeting the audience where they are, co-designing for maximum impact, managing demand, and using evaluation to improve outcomes and processes.
15:00 Influencing the influencers
This panel discussion will explore how to unlock the potential of using online influencers to promote media literacy.
15:40 Media literacy for all: What does the future hold? The answers!
Summary of the breakout sessions.
16:15 Closing remarks
16:30 Conference close
