Today’s societies live in a world where the media construct reality, which also affects each individual media user. Children and their parents spend most of their time with digital media and contents. Therefore, researchers emphasize the importance of digital literacy of media users. They analyse new phenomena, challenges and risks associated with the anthropological, cognitive and social development of children and young people. An important role in media and digital education is played not only by teachers and schools, but also by parents and family. The aim of this paper is to present and analyse the theoretical approaches to digital media literacy, so-called digital parenting, and to interpret the results of the latest research in Croatia devoted to the digital habits of parents, their attitudes towards parental mediation strategies as well as to their satisfaction with the programmes of media literacy in the education system.

No research exists about the efficiency of regulation and self-regulation in regard to the protection of children's rights in the Croatian media. Until today no analysis has been conducted on how relevant Croatian institutions monitor the implementation of media laws and by extension the provisions relating to the protection of children's rights in the media. In this paper we seek to examine complaints of citizens and institutions sent to the Croatian Journalists' Association (CJA) regarding violations of the CJA Code of Honor as well as reports by the Office of the Ombudsman for Children, the Electronic Media Council and the Croatian Media Council, regarding complaints about violations of children's rights in the media in the past five years (2008-2012). We shall not only analyze reports by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic of Croatia, but also analyze and demonstrate whether these institutions have adequately, through which methods and to what extent, responded to the disregard of children's rights in the media, in line with their legal authorities. Based upon research findings, we offer proposals for the better protection of children's rights in the media, as well as for the work of institutions that are responsible for supervising the implementation of legal codes and ethical norms. It is necessary to define the authorities and obligations of an ad hoc body, or to transfer authorities to a previously established body. In this way the gap in the regulation of print and electronic media in Croatia would be bridged. It is also of central importance that the institutions responsible for implementing on their own initiative legal and self-regulation acts, do indeed process cases of children's rights violations, in line with their authorities. Improved coordination, new educational programs for journalists and better cooperation among the relevant institutions is expected as well.

Od trenutka kada se u svojoj najranijoj dobi upoznaju s medijima, djeca se susreću s raznovrsnim medijskim sadržajima koji su promijenili njihov način provođenja slobodnoga vremena (Šego, 2009, str. 62), a jedan od omiljenih jest druženje i igra u virtualnome svijetu -svijetu videoigara, u kojem su izložena njihovu pozitivnom i negativnom utjecaju.Novonastale se okolnosti odražavaju na odgoj i mijenjaju ulogu roditelja, odgajatelja i nastavnika. Stoga se danas, više nego ikada, ističe potreba razvoja medijske kompetencije i medijske pismenosti među djecom i odraslima s ciljem poticanja kritičkog razmišljanja o medijskim sadržajima te odgovorne i učinkovite uporabe medija. U radu se prikazuju rezultati istraživanja provedenog u razdoblju između siječnja i ožujka 2016. godine među 630 djece u dobi od 10 do 15 godina u trima osnovnim školama na području Grada Zagreba i Zagrebačke županije. Za prikupljanje rezultata korištena je metoda ankete. Rezultati ovoga istraživanja pružaju uvid u odnos djece prema videoigrama, njihovim preferencijama pri odabiru videoigara i percepciji njihova sadržaja i funkcije, a usto mogu poslužiti kao korisni podaci za razumijevanje osobitosti videoigara te kao poticaj na razmišljanje o aktivnom uključivanju i korištenju edukativnih videoigara u procesu učenja.

U ovom su radu analizirane navike korištenja medija, posebno digitalnih, vjerodostojnost njihovog sadržaja u očima publike i mišljenja o lažnim vijestima za vrijeme kriznoga razdoblja, koje je poznato i kao „doba pandemije koronavirusa“, dok je Svjetska zdravstvena organizacija upozorila i na činjenicu da je istodobno riječ bila i o infodemiji. Upravo je tim terminom potvrđena važnost uloge medija, koji su mogli pridonijeti smirivanju krize ili su mogli prenositi dezinformacije, lažne vijesti i vijesti vezane uz teoriju zavjere i to upravo u doba kada su publici bili najpotrebniji. Ovo istraživanje, čiji je cilj bio ispitati ulogu medija kao važnog izvora informacija u doba pandemije koronavirusa, provedeno je metodom ankete putem interneta od 27. travnja do 15. svibnja 2020. godine. Rezultati istraživanja pokazali su da su mediji važan izvor informacija u koje ispitanici imaju povjerenja, a informacije su im pomogle u samom razumijevanju krize i usmjeravanju prema odgovarajućem ponašanju u kriznoj situaciji.

During the COVID-19 lockdowns, images (memes, GIFs, pictures, etc.) were largely consumed via social media. The purpose of the study is to establish a relevant research model in order to contextualize images as transmedia communicative documents during lockdowns (March-June 2020). The research method is a visual semiotic analysis used to evaluate the data for inter-coded reliability. The corpus is comprised of 300 visual representations identified regarding the salient participants metaphorically represented as “real”. On the one hand, the semantic-sensory relationships between images and viewers rhetorically imply a proverbial frame ‘Every cloud has a silver lining’; on the other hand, the persuasive concept of humour is established by multimodal tools, which further shape the audience. The salient domains of ‘staying home’ and ‘going away’ point towards more specific variables, e.g. education or tourism. The results confirm the modality judgement of humorous construct as a valuable document regarding the pandemic situation. According to its unique rhetorical features produced by the image-message-receiver relationships, the consolidation of data sets the ground for strategies and signifiers, with the function of a) presenting the adaptation of norms and b) setting the ground for consequent studies. Conclusively, the survey was conducted at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, which confirmed students’ positive attitudes about using images for visual literacy. New findings are juxtaposed with previous knowledge in order to enforce the proposed research as a model for further narrative cognition. One such example is the burning question of how the media shapes the general public opinion on the coronavirus vaccine.