ABSTRACT
Media literacy is grounded mostly in the multidisciplinary fields of education and information and communication sciences. Media literacy has moved from the critical analysis of mass media in the early 1950s to the reflexive practices of social media in the digital era. Media and information literacy (MIL) emerged at UNESCO as a follow-up of the Kit for Media Education and the ensuing collaborative elaboration of the Paris Agenda for Media Education. The World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Geneva Declaration of 2003 reaffirmed 'the universality, indivisibility, interdependence, and interrelation of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to development', in the information society. Internet governance (IG) recognizes the role of the Internet in promoting human rights, while at the same time showing that it is also used to violate such rights, with additional concerns about the infringement and enhancement of children's rights.
