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MEDIA 4 YOU: Media Literacy for Youth

2020-3-BG01-KA105-0948672020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: BG|MK|NL|IT|TR|HU · Grant: €18,330.61
ICT - new technologies - digital competencesYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) - basic skills

Objectives

With the developing technology and globalization, the mass media have become more diversified and societies have started to use these communication tools not only for news, but also information, etc. but also for entertainment purposes. These developments brought about a great amount of information pollution and the correct and false news / information become indistinguishable from each other.Inthis framework finding information and trustworthy information sources, measuring thetrustworthiness of the found information and news is left to the individual, "how can I reach correctinformation?" question has also gained in importance. With the beginning of satellite broadcasting towards the end of the 20th century, computers and the Internet took their place in daily life and the boundaries of time and space disappeared in communication and information sharing.On the other hand, the change in the ownership structure of the media has led to the media sector to become controlled by a small number of giant media companies. With the privatizations, the media gradually became biased. For example, According to the results of a survey conducted throughout Europe, 83% of the respondents perceive the false news in the media as a danger to democracy and see the reflections of the false news as a major problem in their country. In our country, where the rate of media literacy is terrible, especially in recent years, political and social events have undermined the trust of a significant part of the society in the media news and increased the questioning of the media by the public. Most of the programs with news or political content are media based on the ideology and political relations of the channel rather than objective broadcasting. In order to overcome this problem, Secure Internet Centers are being opened in various parts of the world and thanks to these centers, individuals are informed about how to use the internet safely. Nevertheless, the peoples of the country are extremely incognizant about the issue and this increases the false reflections of the media in today's technology age. As a result, in our project, we discussed the wrong reflections of the media in the society due to the weakness of media literacy, we wanted to raise the awareness of young people about these false reflections and to reach the right news and to increase their competences. Our purposes are: 1.To gain awareness about the wrong reflections of the media and the problems that arise in this context 2. To provide participants with ideas about the weakness of media literacy and how to increase this ratio. 3.To provide participants with options on how to reach the true news and increase good practice 4.To enable participants to learn about the mass media and how to use them to reach the true news.

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