20.500.12556/RUL-176200 Exploring media literacy formation at the intersection of family, school, and peers Today, media literacy and digital skills are essential for personal communication and social interaction. Children and adolescents need these skills to act autonomously in highly digitised social contexts. These skills are acquired in different social spaces, most frequently and primarily at home, followed by peer groups, school, and extracurricular activities. The present study aims to conceptually situate media literacy within a broader network of social power relations. It is therefore grounded in an academic theoretical framework that constructs media literacy as a form of digital cultural capital. As such, media literacy also contains the principles of media preferences and choices that condition the media choices of young people. This draws our attention to the social contexts in which media literacy and digital skills of children and teenagers are formed: within the family, school, and peers. With a selective thematic analysis of qualitative interviews with 67 primary and secondary school students (12–19 years), the empirical research is focused on different contextual incentives and regulations related to the formation of students’ media literacy, primarily in relation to digital media. First, we examine parenting practices that frame home access to media and media practices within families. Then, we explore the characteristics of formal media education within schools, which seems limited to teaching with/through media. Finally, we identify peer networks as important promoters of both digital capital and elements of advanced media practices and skills, compared to the media literacy encouraged within families and schools. digital capital media education media practices primary school students secondary school students digitalni kapital medijska vzgoja medijske prakse osnovnošolci srednješolci true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2025-11-25 08:30:55 2025-11-25 08:30:59 2025-12-19 03:50:10 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 17 str. article [no.] ǂ9098 Vol. 13 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 37.011.22:659.3 2183-2439 10.17645/mac.9098 222000387 Koren_et_al_M&C.pdf Koren_et_al_M&C.pdf 1 CAB9161C8C2F4087D917CAF4200E07DA d9a4d2ca3c826fb3aaa6fbbaaffec98e582fc8395bb62be8d47fbb72ae2b5262 8c6e8f47-c9d0-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=222458 https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/9098 0 9540d156-c9d0-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=222459 Fakulteta za družbene vede Pedagoška fakulteta 0 0 0