Gianna Cappello teaches Sociology of education and digital media at the University of Palermo, Italy. She is president of MED (Italian Association for Media Education, www.medmediaeducation.it). Her research focuses on critical theory, media studies and media education. She has recently worked on the notion of “educational commons” developed within a media education approach and the process of platformization of education.

Normand Landry is Canada Research Chair in Media Education and Human Rights and Professor at TÉLUQ University. Normand’s work focuses on communication rights, media education, social movement theory, law and democratic communications. His research has led him to participate in international summits organized under the aegis of the United Nations, to intervene with parliamentary groups and to get involved with civil society groups. 

Julian Sefton-Green is Professor of New Media Education at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has worked as an independent scholar and has held positions at the Department of Media & Communication, London School of Economics & Political Science (where he is currently a visiting professor) and at the University of Oslo working on projects exploring learning and learner identity across formal and informal domains. He has been an Honorary Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK and the Institute of Education, Hong Kong, and a Visiting Professor at The Playful Learning Centre, University of Helsinki, Finland.

He has researched and written widely on many aspects of media education, new technologies, creativity, digital cultures and informal learning and has authored, co-authored or edited 20 books. He is currently a key lead researcher in the Australian Research Council funded Centre of Excellence studying Digital Childhoods and co-director of a 3 year study, funded by The Wallace Foundation, Tracing the Enduring effects of Community Arts participation.

Leo van Audenhove is head of the Department of Communication Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is a researcher at imec-SMIT, VUB and is extra-ordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

In 2013, he was instrumental in setting up the Knowledge Centre for Digital and Media Literacy in Flanders, of which he subsequently became the director. The centre was established by the government as an independent centre to promote digital and media literacy in Flanders. His research focuses on media and data literacy, digital-inclusion, internet governance and ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development).

Emily Vraga is the Don and Carole Larson Professor in Health Communication at the University of Minnesota’s Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her research tests methods to identify and correct misinformation on social media, to build news literacy to improve audience resiliency, and to encourage attention to more diverse content. Vraga has published over 90 journal articles and her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Andrew Carnegie Corporation. She has worked with international health organizations and social media platforms to improve efforts to address misinformation online.