Digital Literacy Hub · VU Amsterdam
Empowering digital citizenship through research, design, and dialogue
Research hub advancing digital literacy through evidence-based insights on social media, privacy, and AI ethics
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01Our Mission
Empowering digital citizenship through research and collaboration
At the Digital Literacy Hub, we explore how people navigate, resist, and reshape the digital world. Our mission is to empower individuals and communities through research-driven insights and tailored interventions that foster critical, confident, and responsible digital engagement. We believe that digital literacy is not a static skillset, but a dynamic and evolving capacity, one that must be cultivated in dialogue with rapidly shifting technologies, platforms, and societal norms.
03Events
Bringing the digital literacy community together
First Symposium of the VU Amsterdam Digital Literacy Hub
Digital literacy is one of the most policy-relevant yet conceptually fragmented fields in communication science. Across Europe, researchers are advancing specific domains (advertising literacy, privacy literacy, AI literacy, news literacy), yet these communities rarely talk to one another. The first symposium of the VU Amsterdam Digital Literacy Hub sets out to close that gap.
Dr. Mariëtte van Huijstee
Rathenau Instituut, The Hague
Prof. dr. Esther Rozendaal
Erasmus University Rotterdam