Divina Frau-Meigs is a professor at Sorbonne nouvelle University and holds the UNESCO Chair in “Knowledge and Future in the Era of Sustainable Digital Development: Mastering Information Cultures”. A Fulbright and Lavoisier scholar, she is a graduate of the Sorbonne University, Stanford University (Palo Alto) and the Annenberg School for Communications (University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia). A media sociologist, she is a specialist in the reception and use of information and communication technologies. As such, at the European level, she is a member of the high-level expert group on disinformation and the expert group on media literacy (DG-Connect) and the expert group on disinformation and digital literacy (DG-EAC).

In the field of research, she leads many projects related to information literacy, new literacies and media and information literacy: the ANR project TRANSLIT, the European MOOC project ECO, the Erasmus + project ECFOLI, for conflict resolution through the use of media, the DG-Connect projects YouCheck! and YouVerify! for the verification of visual infoxes, the CROSSOVER project on the role of algorithms in disinformation. With other researchers she participates in the ERASMUS + INEDU project (combating hate speech), the DG-Justice PLAY YOUR ROLE project (games for migrant integration), the ERASMUS + FACT CHECKING project (online course on source verification).

She is the author of more than three hundred articles in national and international journals and about thirty books in several languages, including Public Policies on Media and Information Literacy in Europe: cross-country comparisons (Routledge, 2017), Faut-il avoir peur des ” fake news ” ? (Documentation française, 2019), The Handbook on Media Education Research (Wiley, 2020) and MOOCs and the Participatory Challenge: from Revolution to Reality (Springer, 2021).

On these research themes, she is an expert for UNESCO, the European Commission, the Council of Europe and other governmental bodies in France and in other countries. She has been vice-president of IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research, 2002-2008) and has directed the section “Media Education Research” (2009-2016). She is a founding member and elected to the board of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA, 2008-2012). She is a founding member of the Global Alliance of Partnerships in Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL) and chairs its European chapter. She also chairs the NGO Savoir*Devenir, which is affiliated with the UNESCO Chair of the same name.