Auksė Balčytienė

Main research areas: media and journalism cultures, resilient digital citizenship, media activism, media and information literacy, media policy, platform governance

In BECID is involved with: Research and analysis of adequate responses to disinformation (WP3); media literacy methodologies design and trainings (WP4)

Everyday MIL-related survival tip for information disorders: Media literacy is a mind management strategy: to become resilient to information manipulations one needs to learn about how he or she thinks, feels, and acts (with or without the media).

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Balčytienė, A. & Juraitė, K. (2022) Baltic democracies: re-configuring media environments and civic agency. Journal of Baltic Studies, 53:4, 565-585, DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2022.2117833.

Juraitė, K., Balčytienė, A. (2022). Accelerating Information Consumption and Challenges to Mil Amidst Covid-19 in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic.

Balčytienė, A. (2021). Crisis of Agency in Central and Eastern Europe: From the Consolidation of Media Freedom to the Institutionalisation of Free Choice. Javnost/The Public, 28(1), pp. 75-89.

Balčytienė, A., and Juraitė, K. (2019). Representation, participation and societal wellbeing: Addressing inequalities in agency in Europe. In Trappel, J. (eds.). Inequalities of media in Europe. Gothenburg: Nordicom.

Balčytienė, A., and Wadbring, I. (2017). News literacy: Reinventing the ideals of journalism and citizenry for the 21st century. In Wadbring, I., and Pekkala, L. (eds.). Citizens in a Mediated World: A Nordic-Baltic perspective on media and information literacy. Nordicom, pp. 31-45.