Editors’ Comment: The stories we tell ourselves about media education have been a
recurring theme in MERJ – see previous issues for our provocation on the deficiency of
pedagogic research in the field; our retrospective analysis of the ‘Media 2.0’ debate; our republishing
of Dan Laughey’s Back to Basics polemic and our recent attempt to ‘take stock’
of ourselves in the light of Leverson. And yet we make no apology for returning once again
to ‘the state we’re in’ here, as Professor David Buckingham, to say the least a notable and
influential academic and practitioner in the field, provides this guest editorial, following
his keynote on the same theme at the 2013 Media Education Summit. RB & JMcD.
