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Dear Andy, I shuddered before entering into this debate (!) but by chance I came upon a slide about these literacies on flickr today (available under Creative Commons too). http://www.flickr.com/photos/nirak/1383955080/ Best wishes Peter Peter Godwin Academic Liaison Librarian University of Bedfordshire Park Square Luton LU1 3JU 01582 743248 Visit my new blog at Information Literacy meets Library 2.0 http://infolitlib20.blogspot.com/ >>> Andy Powell <[log in to unmask]> 14/08/2008 12:00 >>> I blogged recently about the terms 'digital literacy', 'information literacy' and 'media literacy', noting that the recent Byron Report used only the latter. http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2008/08/digital-literac.htm l I'm not sure if this is a well debated issue here - I guess it is? If so, I apologise for raising it. Nonetheless, I'd be interested in people's thoughts and, in particular, whether there is a well accepted understanding of the relationships between and meanings of our different kinds of 'literacies'. As a more concrete question... "an understanding of how to use filtering software on a home PC" clearly falls under Ofcom's use of 'media literacy' and my intended use of 'digital literacy' but it isn't clear to me whether it also falls under the generally accepted meaning of 'information literacy'? Andy -- Head of Development, Eduserv Foundation http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/ http://efoundations.typepad.com/ [log in to unmask] +44 (0)1225 474319