What are the primary challenges facing the UK’s online information environment? Committee explores
The Communications and Digital Committee takes evidence from academics in the first evidence session of its inquiry into media literacy.
Meeting details
At 3:00pm: Oral evidence
Inquiry
Media literacy
Professor of Social Psychology in Society in the Department of Psychology at University of Cambridge
Senior Ethics Fellow in the Public Policy Programme at The Alan Turing Institute
Background
The Committee is exploring media literacy in the UK and how it can be improved. Only 45% of UK adults are confident they can judge whether sources of information are truthful and just 30% believe they can identify content that is created by AI.
In the first evidence session, the Committee examines challenges relating to the UK’s online information environment, and how UK citizens can become better equipped to navigate them.
Possible areas for discussion
Possible areas for discussion with witnesses include:
- The most pressing risks and threats facing the UK’s online information environment and how these may change with technological developments.
- How well equipped the UK is to respond to these threats, and where efforts to improve media literacy should be targeted.
- The role of the Government, regulators, tech platforms and the media industry itself in improving media literacy.