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Social Media Abuse 2.0

2020-3-EL02-KA105-0066162020Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: EL|PT|MK|BG|TR · Grant: €14,210
Social dialogueSocial/environmental responsibility of educational institutionsIntercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Objectives

The objectives of the project for the participants was to increase their confidence, teamwork skills, project management, cooperation, intercultural awareness, empathy, and knowledge of social networks abusing in Europe. Also, to increase their active citizenship on a local, national and international level. They were gained a technical skills which they created a video aimed to promote and discuss civic engagement, activism as a democratic practice, and prevention of social media addiction. Through the project and video the participants learned how social media networks can abuse them. The project used a different non-formal methods which enhanced the understanding social media addiction, but also on the ethical and philosophical areas with intercultural dialogue and solidarity. The organizations increased their organizational capacity. Each participating organization has learned from each other through the process. Each organization learned more about communicating, web page building and maintaining, and gained an ideas from the Youth Exchange that they brought back. The objectives of the project were - Concept of social media and social media addiction, - Reasons of social media addiction - Effects of social media addiction on youth and teenagers - Results of social media addiction - Social media literacy - Proper use of social media tools - Social isolation As DeltaYouth MKO and education association team our aim was to prepare this project as re-taking the control of technology which starts to control our life via social media tools and we felt that we have to make precautions about it. Because people have started to drift away from real world and they are isolating themselves from society day by day. We noticed that mostly of the young population in Thessaloniki are endangered according social media networks.

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