Concept: How diversity is represented in the media, information providers and digital content and what are the challenges to expand representation in these spaces. How Media and Information Literacy fight stereotypes and inequities

Issues raised according to the latest version of UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy curriculum:
- Stereotypes in the media and digital communication companies
- The importance of diversity, equity and inclusion in content providers’ representations
- How messages and values can be conveyed through content providers’ representations
- The impact of representation on audiences
- The role of agenda in representation
- The role of policy in ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion
- MIL for gender equality and persons with disabilities

Learning outcomes
- Understand the ethics of social, gender and other social representations in the media
- Analysis of content providers’ representations as constructions
- Assessment of the impact of content providers’ representations on audiences
- Assessment of the impact of policy decisions on diversity, equity and inclusion
- Identification of the characteristics of content providers’ representations that contribute to diversity in the media

on this subject: Media and Information Literacy