Dr. Nina Shengelia – Policy Leader Fellow, STG
Dr. Alex Grech – University of Malta
We often speak of young people as “digital natives,” assuming their ease with technology translates to understanding. But fluency is not literacy, and access is not empowerment.
In a podcast conversation with Dr. Alex Grech, we explored how this myth obscures the urgent need for critical digital literacies — skills that go beyond navigating apps to include ethical awareness, media critique, and civic agency.
This publication is a timely and necessary response. It equips readers with frameworks to understand digital life not just as users, but as conscious participants in shaping it. In an age of AI, misinformation, and performance-driven platforms, this work reminds us that the ability to question is just as important as the ability to connect.
Let this reader be a tool — and a starting point — for deeper reflection, better education, and more intentional digital engagement.