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The article focuses on an issue that has remained in the shadows of thepublic debate on the war between Russia and Ukraine, i.e., the relationshipbetween media narratives and the children and adolescents directlyor indirectly involved in the conflict. Whether through direct on-thegroundexperience or media exposure to unprecedented horror, childrenare the silent victims. The thesis is that with regard to minors, media practitionersat all levels should become aware of child protection regulationsand their communication responsibilities, which necessarily implies theassimilation of the ethical dimensions a daily practice. In this way, themedia could fully exercise their mission as Social Action Societies, guidednot only by profit but fully embedded within a true "moral economy".

At the time of an abundance of media o ers and the reduced prestige of the institutions, teaching became strategic to maintaining and rede ning the authority and professional recognition of teachers. It has therefore become advisable to activate a process of self-re ection on the part of universities on the dimensions of didactic innovation and new demands placed on university professors, starting from the reformulation of the mission of the University of the ird Millennium. Areas in need of consideration include: educating to educate (old and new trends in the mode of transmission of knowledge, considering the continuous access to the contents and the new media and cultural behaviours of the students); educating towards an interdisciplinary perspective; educating towards internationalization; educating for integration and solidarity; educating to divulge the results of scienti c research, national and global problems and evolutions in terms of technology and human value; educating with and about the digital media. All these dimensions are explored in the paper, with particular a ention given to the multiple dimensions of Media Literacy for university teachers with regard to overcoming physical, cultural and generational barriers between teachers and students and to up-to-date and democratize the quality university education.

Worldwide university politics take for granted the primacy of Global- Northern paradigm. In the last decades, Higher Education policies have been shaped by global devices of neoliberal governance, such as the Competitiveness Global Index elaborated by the World Economic Forum. We examine the ever encroaching HE evaluation policies and illustrate how, in the framework of the current "Evaluative State", university has been rebuilt according to the priorities of the "neoliberal market agenda". What is at stake is a "new spirit of evaluation" that mirrors the current "new spirit of capitalism". Opposite to the neutral and disembodied models of "ideal-academic", which treat knowledge as a Northern, white, gendered, middle class monopoly, we argue that "academic quality" displays embedded/embodied features devoid of universalistic issues. Taking inspiration from Raewyn Connell (2019), we propose "another possible university", appointed with less strict epistemic instances, to rethink Higher Education in terms of some fresh "breaking" ideas: "Meridian thought" (Cassano, 1996), "slowness" (Berg & Seeber, 2016), "multi-versity" (Braidotti, 2013), "subversity" (De Sousa Santos, 2018), "decolonization" (Mbembe, 2016), "deparochialization of research" (Appadurai, 2013).