We carried a blog a few weeks ago about the launch of the website Elviswalks.com, which highlights the importance of media literacy.
The site was developed by the Media CSR Forum, of which the Guardian is a member, and as a follow-up, it is organising an interactive panel debate on the subject, to which you are all invited.
Media literacy is 'the ability to access, understand and create communications in a variety of contexts' and the reason it is so important is because it allows people to draw the line between fact, opinion, entertainment and advertising, areas that are becoming increasingly blurred in the modern multi-media landscape.
The event is being organised in partnership with POLIS, the respected journalism and society think-tank based at the London School of Economics.
The session will be asking whether the enormous wealth of information now available helps citizens to be more informed and better at reaching the right decisions as well as asking whose responsibility it really is to help people to be more media-literate.
The panel will include Ben Hammersley (Editor at Large, Wired), Matt Locke (Commissioning Editor for New Media and Education, Channel 4) and David McCandless (Author of 'Information is Beautiful').
The event is free and there is no need to register. You can pose questions in advance at elviswalks.com and forward them to questions@elviswalks.com.
It is being held on Thursday March 18th, 6.30-8pm, in the New Theatre, East Building, London School of Economics & Political Science, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE.
You will be pleased to hear that at least one thing has not changed in the world of journalism: Drinks will be available afterwards!
