BEYOND MEDIA LITERACY - DIGITAL STREETWORK

BEYOND MEDIA LITERACY - DIGITAL STREETWORK. Elisa Paladini Karem Samanez Dalguerre.

wether to believe and trust the truth of them is up to.

some people go beyond of that. Actively investigating and scrutinizing messages and news they receive.

Media literacy.

CREATE.

INITIAL GOAL :. To teach people how to use media as a tool and to create a democratic society that is able to distinguish from truth and fake news.

Media literacy has generated. A wide range of conflicting strategies.

As people will weight their options, the most truthful ideas and facts will win out..

This can be very discerning ....

Example: the Nazi ideology didn`t accept any other “truths” apart their own.

FALSEHOOD OF NEWS AND INFORMATION.

The problem isn’t necessarily the facts or stories themselves, but....

the environmental consequences they trigger.

The problem is. Giving people permission and even encouraging them to share things that are safe from a liberal perspective Especially important in time of memes, shared videos and GIFs.

Media Literacy can be a very useful tool, but. can become equally dangerous if it focuses on specific aspects only and can lead to extremism.

We should all be able to understand , embrace and teach different perspectives without losing our own in the process.

We all know. how easy it is to get soaked into the online world.

Especially young adults and teenagers. are affected as they turn to the internet frequently to ask uncomfortable questions.

This creates:. lots of spaces and communities around different type of people … some of them being very extreme and dangerous ones.

Digital Streetwork. no.

but....

What exactly is Streetwork ?.

involves social workers who act directly in the environment of self-endangering or problematic audiences that don’t get help from institutionalized organisations, whatever the reasons may be.

To CHANGE their habits to....

a healthier and safer life.

Due to quick and strong digitalisation the field of digital streetwork was recently added.

but....

how exactly?.

by : trying to engage with victims , perpetrators but also bystanders.

to help prevent these events to happen again in the future.

This kind of work is relatively new but grows more important each day as social media grows more relevant for today's world..

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