IAME is pleased to invite you to its upcoming webinar on media literacy for children aged 0 to 6. The event will take place online on Wednesday 17 June at 6 pm CET.
With the participation of:
- Cary Bazalgette: Research on children and moving-image media on 0-3 age group
- Gianna Capello and Maria Ranieri: Infanzie Digitali: the impact of digital technologies on the daily lives of children aged 0-6.
- Sofia Theodosiadou: Podcasting and media literacy: a case study of preschool education students as media makers.
- Moderation by Maria Leonida, Filmmaker and Media educator, co-founder and Director of Karpos, Centre for Media Education, Athens and IAME board member
| Practical information • Date: Wednesday 17 June 2026 at 18pm CET • Language: English • Online through Teams • Free participation but registration is needed • Duration: 1 hour 15 mins Webinars are open to IAME members and non-members. But we are happy to have you among us as an IAME member. Consider joining IAME as a member. Please feel free to share this information with your own network. |
About the speakers
Dr Cary Bazalgette taught in London schools during the 1960s and 1970s before joining the Education Department of the British Film Institute, where she worked from 1979 to 2007. Between 2011 and 2016, she conducted doctoral research on television viewing by two-year-olds. Her recent publications include the book How Toddlers Learn the Secret Language of Movies (Palgrave, 2022). Her forthcoming book, Beyond Screen Time Guilt: The Role of TV and Video in Early Child Development, will be published by Routledge.
Research on children and moving-image media on 0-3 age group
Her research led her to argue that babies and toddlers who view moving image media are independently learning how to make sense of these media’s codes and conventions. She is critical of almost all the research that underpinned the American Academy of Pediatrics’s (now discarded) “screen time rules”, and insists that observational studies are essential for the study of 0-3s. She argues for a greater stylistic diversity in “baby tv”. Her presentation may have implications for media educators of older students.
Read more: https://carybazalgette.net
Gianna Cappello is a full professor of the sociology of education and digital media, and the sociology of childhood, at the University of Palermo, Chair of MED, the Italian media literacy network, and co-founder of IAME.
Maria Ranieri is a full professor of general pedagogy and educational technologies at the University of Florence, where she heads the Educational Technologies Laboratory.
Infanzie Digitali : the impact of digital technologies on the daily lives of children aged 0-6.
This book takes a critical and interdisciplinary look at the impact of digital technologies on the daily lives of children aged 0 to 6. Moving beyond the fruitless debate on control and censorship, it promotes educational mediation as a deliberate practice capable of safeguarding children’s rights to expression, play and participation, whilst protecting them from the excessive digitalisation and commodification inherent in platform society. Particular attention is paid to the creation of educational environments that recognise children as active and autonomous individuals, including in the digital world. At the same time, it offers a reflection on the digital and media skills that those responsible for children must possess to ensure that their media experiences are conducive to harmonious development. Through theoretical and practical contributions, this text is aimed at educators, teachers, parents and researchers, offering them tools to interpret and transform digital technologies into an opportunity for growth, active citizenship and social justice from early childhood onwards.
Read more: https://www.mondadorieducation.it/catalogo/infanzie-digitali-0077201
Dr. Sofia Theodosiadou is Assistant Professor in the field of Media and Childhood at the School of Early Childhood Education, Faculty of Education at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). She has also been working as a radio and magazine journalist in Athens and Thessaloniki. She has been a full trainee at the BBC World Service, London, UK as an EU scholar. Her research interests lie in the field of audio storytelling, children and audio media, media literacy and music radio.
Podcasting and media literacy: a case study of preschool education students as media makers
Τhis study explores how preschool students as media makers navigate the ideas and demands of a podcast for very young children within a non-media domain. The present study engages in a qualitative analysis focusing on the viewpoints of preschool students in Greece regarding values, expectations and accompanying cultures that students carry towards media production for a children’s audience in the class ‘Media and Childhood’. More specifically, the study explores the relationship between media literacy and podcasting and the possible educational gains from podcast-making for preschool education students. Reflecting on the benefits of this class project as a sole case study at the School of Pre School-Education of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki during the spring semester of 2021 and drawing upon evidence from two focus groups conducted in the department in the winter semester of 2022, the results are more than encouraging. Involved in the process of media production and in keeping the balance between the role of the teacher and that of the journalist, students value the chance they have to be creative for a children’s audience and to shift their perspective towards children from the teacher’s angle to a more journalistic angle.
Read more: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741136.2025.2463202
We look forward to another lively discussion!