Twentieth Anniversary of the Media Education Journal: Main Trends in Research

In 2025, the Media Education journal has its twentieth anniversary since its founding (2005). And this is a good reason for the content of this article. The purpose of this article is to identify through the analysis of publications in the Media Education journal the main trends in media education that characterize modern research areas of the last four years. To study in detail the main directions and trends in current development of scientific research in media education area, the entire pool of articles has been divided into the key groups united by problem range considered by their authors: 1. changes in the media sphere; 2. media literacy; 3. media manipulations; 4. theoretical models of effective media educational activities; 5. media discourse; 6. history of cinema. From the discussion it becomes clear that the pace of change in media sphere has quickened considerably since the 2020s, and that the role of media education in providing ideas and methods has come under increasing academic attention and community scrutiny. The fact that modern people live in an increasingly media-intensive environment means that they need to acquire certain media skills andabilities, and media education becomes the basis of a strategy for improving their competency profile.