In the last decades media represented, and still today represent, the privileged tool for disseminating information, comparing and discussing cultural models, supporting and guaranteeing public debate and  the processes of democratization of society. However, this "mandate" has increased in complexity over time, becoming, simultaneously and contradictory, a tool able to manipulate public opinion, above all for  pervasiveness and extension, in time and space. This made difficult the identification of the boundary between conditioning and freedom of thought and choice.
In this scenario which is the role of education? How can education help women and men to discover the potential and pitfalls that are hidden, first of all, in Internet? and, how to educate to the correct use of information and media communication as a real exercise of active citizenship?