¿Descubriendo nunca jamás?La educación mediática en la LOMCE y el papel de la CNMC en la protección de la infancia ante los contenidos audiovisuales

Abstract

The role of authorities in the complex relationship between media and childhood pivots ontwo fundamental axes: the protection of children against risks which involves the use of themedia and the promotion of the media education to give children of adequate training tomake a profitable and healthy use of that relationship. In this sense, this paper studies tworecent regulatory actions of the Administration in these areas: on one side, which presence has the media education on the new organic law (LOMCE) for the improvement of theeducational quality, which will be operational next year 2014-15, and another, the paperbeing developed by the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) inoperation since October 2013, in the monitoring of the protective legislation for childrenin relation to audio-visual content from his role as heir to some of the functions conferredby the General Law on Audiovisual Communication (LGCA) to the unborn State Council ofAudiovisual Media (CEMA).