With the fast-growing section of tech companies, people gradually cease to purchase a traditional printing press and shift to a digital one, which is often led by powerful corporations. The most vulnerable social group is among youngsters who are nonresistant to fake news and easily manipulated through social media. Fake news in a world definition stands for deliberate disinformation of an individual or a group to trigger the desired response. It has been used in ancient times but became commonly known and widely spread in recent years especially as a tool on the political ground. Young people are found to be the greatest consumers of news but a lack of critical thinking or verification of the content’s credibility often leads to an increase in fake news. As an example, a popular method is the Clickbait which aims to gain as many visitors as it can by persuading them to click on a specific link which results in a publisher’s greater revenue. Even though the page does not necessarily provide accurate messages. Mindfulness in the world of the internet and post-truth is what needed more than ever before. In C1 - will take part 24 participants from Germany, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. In C2 will take part 21 participants from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In C3 will take part 21 participants form Poland, Germany and Slovakia. It is planned to involve participants with fewer opportunities in our mobilities: - migrants in the country where they currently live; - experiencing economic difficulties; In the selection of participants in the groups of each country, preference will be given to participants from regions that have fewer opportunities to participate in such projects, and, consequently, limited access to knowledge on the topic of media literacy and critical thinking. The most part of the participants from Germany, Belarus and Latvia will be young migrants who find themselves in a different cultural, linguistic and national environment (according to specialisation of organizations' work). During C1, C2 and C2 we will use different methods of non-formal education: siscussions, work in pairs, trios, small and big groups, interactive role-playing games, icebreakers, team-building, simulations, living library, forum theatre, city game, intercultural and other parties, energizers, daily evaluations etc. (the participants will see how different methods and approaches work). The participants will be given a chance to act as trainers/facilitators. The main aim of the project is improving young people’s knowledge and skills in media literacy, help young people to critically analyse the information disseminated by the media with the help of the exchange of good practices of participate organizations. The objectives of the project: - to illustrate the power of the media in the lives of youth; - to develop and reinforce networks, increase their capacity to operate at transnational level, share and confront ideas, practices and methods; - to establish media literacy as an instructional strategy for developing critical thinking among young people; - to provide youth worker with a framework for critical media literacy; - intercultural dialogue and cultural awareness - to enhance critical thinking and media literacy among young people to strengthen democracy and counter manipulation, propaganda and disinformation; - testing and implementation of good practices in the field of education, training and youth; - to present our informational and methodological brochure. Becoming media literate means young people build communication skills, and also become equipped with the tools to interpret, to understand, to critically question and to interact with media. The ability to create your own media is empowering and outlets such as a blog or a podcast give a platform for young people to tell their personal story so as to build a place in culture and society. In this particular aspect, we intend to take advantage of digital storytelling inspired in journalistic techniques, as educational tools. Society that is media literate and has the capacity to think critically will manage to defend itself from misinformation. This is the main goal of fostering media literacy in young people
The aim of the project was to foster youth participation and develop youth citizenship, the formation of its active life and civil position through the exchange of positive experience and information in the field of media literacy and Internet competence, exhannge of experience and the ability to defend their point of view and resist propaganda and manipulation.
In the last years, in the context of Europe and the global political background of Europe, people living in Europe are faced with information analyzes of the difficulties that come from the media or from the Internet, and problems with the formation and perception of their personal opinion. Through the formation of a person and a potential citizen, young people come across and suffer under the influence of mass media manipulation, which directly affects the development of the society's opinion on important issues of life for young people. Against the backdrop of topical issues and comprehensive propaganda, extremism, discrimination, intolerance, xenophobia, radicalism, aggressions are spreading among young people. Media has an important role here, which unilaterally reveals political events and processes in today's world, and this one-sidedness is often associated with a semblance of rebroadcasting and the position of special political or ideological forces. Different methods of manipulation are used in media and in the Internet: visual, linguistic, stereotyping and demagogy methods. These manipulations are particularly dangerous in explaining the more acute issues that have emerged in recent years, such as defining common European values, objectively identifying military conflicts, clarifying political and social events, and the problem of migration. The idea of the project comes from the fact that today's young people are not so well-educated in this field and they need additional knowledge and additional experience. It affects both young people and youth workers. We considered it important to organize this project in an international level, because the problem that the project concerned has a widespread dissemination: the problems are not local but international.