Academic CentreMedia Literacy for Shared Reality: Different Discourses of the Project “Media Literacy and Information Literacy Classes in Educational Institutions of the Eastern Border Regions of Latvia”
https://doi.org/10.22364/ms23.01 | pp. 5-11 | PDF
Laura Ardava-Āboliņa
University of Latvia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5483-8744
Abstract. The current global direction of thinking in the field of media literacy and information literacy aims towards the fact that media literacy in society begins with the promotion of media literacy in the audiences of children and young people. The article is dedicated to various aspects of the project “Media literacy and information literacy classes in educational institutions of the eastern border regions of Latvia” of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, – a study of value to the Latvian society, implemented in the autumn of 2022 by the teaching staff and researchers of the Department of Communication Studies, the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Latvia. In the current complex geopolitical situation, the project initiative is highly topical, focused and purposeful, because the attitude towards the Russia’s war in Ukraine at the eastern border of Latvia is ambiguous amongst different audiences, even within the audience of pupils. The voluminous, content-rich presentation reached almost 1 000 pupils of 21 schools along the eastern border of Latvia.
Keywords: media literacy education, schoolchildren, Ministry of Culture, Russia-Ukraine war, Latvia’s eastern border
In: Media and Society, 2023. Proceedings of Scientific Papers = Mediji un sabiedrība, 2023. Rakstu krājums. Riga, University of Latvia, 2024. 108 p.