The book "Literacy in a Digital World: Education in Media and Information" is one of the most comprehensive works in the field of digital literacy and media education. Ms. Chrysanthopoulou's approach combines theoretical foundation and empirical research, making the book a valuable tool for researchers, educators, journalists, and every citizen who wishes to better understand the challenges of the digital world.

What does it mean to be literate in a digital world? Is school literacy enough to navigate new technologies, digital media, artificial intelligence, uncontrolled information on the internet, distractions, and lack of evaluation? What are the forms of digital literacy and how do we acquire them?

Why are many educated people today characterized as functionally illiterate in the digital world? What are functional, digital, school, multimodal, and critical literacies, and how do we measure them? How do we cope with information overload on the internet?

Why do we need to be trained to read the news? Why do we struggle to discern reliable information, and why does misinformation prevail on the internet? What are the cognitive limitations that prevent us from determining whether information is true or false, or from distinguishing an opinion from a fact? How are digital technologies and literacy skills connected to the concept of democratic participation? What interventions are necessary for high school and college graduates to be prepared for the wonderful new digital world?

Why do we assign higher human cognitive functions, such as memory, to a machine? What are literate machines and how do we use them? Do we learn better from a screen or from paper?

Digital technologies impose a new form of education, a set of skills, knowledge, and practices that enable us to access, critically evaluate, communicate, participate, and express ourselves in globally interconnected communities.

This book records the questions that concern us all, identifies the needs of children and adults, and provides feasible answers.