Online MediaDay 2020 held by the Centre of Digital Cultures and Media Literacy wrapped up UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week
In October 2020 CDCML HSE once again took part in the Global Media and Information Literacy Week that is held every year starting from 2012 by UNESCO
Global Media and Information Literacy Week started with the School “Understanding Media.Online”. Students from different departments from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova took part in the School that was held for the second time in the online distant format. Anna Kachkaeva, Aleksander Arkhangelsky, Svetlana Shomova told students about modern aspects of fakes, media ethics, life in the Internet, creativity, freedom of speech, role of media literacy and critical autonomy in resistance against misinformation. Anna Kolchina presented her movie “Looking for a goat” and answered students’ questions about how to shoot a movie even during pandemic. Polina Kolozaridi shared her opinion about students’ diaries on the topic “Media life: how to understand what and what for we are doing in the Internet?” that they did as their homework. Students not only became participants of interactive games, opinion polls and trivia, but tried to do it themselves as a final task.
I learned many new things about media, fakes and how to fight them that is very important in the era of post truth. And, of course, it was a nice and productive discussion
Very professional lectors who told their parts in a very amusive, an easily-accessible form. The format of the School teaches the discipline and develops capability to focus on online lecturers during long period of time.
Anastasia Konisheva
Participant
I liked everything a lot since we do not have anything like this at our university. But we would like to. I became a more reasonable media consumer. I will develop this awareness further.
Anna Bondar
Participant
Online MediaDay 2020 was held on October, 30. We invited researchers, professors, media practitioners, students and everyone who is interested in the topic of “understanding media”, media literacy, critical thinking and ecology of media environment. Elena Sherstoboeva, Valentina Pavlenko, Oksana Moroz, Aleksey Kovalev, Mariya Schteinman and Ilia Ber became coparticipants of MediaDay. Anna Kachkaeva was moderator of the discussion.
Online broadcasting of MediaDay on Facebook was watched by more than 1000 people from all over the world: Moscow, Kazan, Perm, Bishkek, Hongkong, Australia and many other cities. 4 hours of lecturres and discussions about freedom of speech, investigation of fakes, fact checking, media ethics, media sapiens are available on Youtube channel of CDCML HSE and on Facebook page.
Artem Elekin
Participant