Regulation, Awareness, Empowerment: Young People and Harmful Media Content in the Digital Age

Based on a request from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2005, The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media presents here a number of pieces by scholars and other experts who, with an eye to the future, present conclusions that can be drawn from the research to date on offensive and potentially harmful media content and the protection of minors. These conclusions are drawn from a variety of perspectives. The Clearinghouse also presents different kinds of efforts at raising media and information literacy through examples of activities, projects and resources from many different parts of the world. The title, Regulation, Awareness, Empowerment is meant to indicate that whenever protection of minors against media content and reducing the amount of harmful media content are discussed, media literacy and information literacy must always be included.