ABSTRACT
The chapter explores how media wisdom as a concept, goal, practice and identity in the sense of being media wise took root in Dutch policy context. The concept of media wisdom meant different things to the Dutch Council for Culture who introduced the term to the Dutch Cabinet to adopting it a few years later. The Dutch situation observes that media wisdom is mainly sought as a quality to be developed in new media users themselves, specifically in children with media technology considered as neutral, static and homogeneous. However, it argues that media wisdom is also shaped by new media, in the sense that new media technologies are never neutral, always changing and heterogeneous. Media wisdom policies and practices need to take into account the full range of relationships between technology and users, in other words, the network of relations between all of human and non-human actors involved, as responsibility for media wisdom can be sought in all of them.
