EventsMEDIA LITERACY DAYS 2024

High-school Students Learned Story-Telling through Film

More than 100 young creative people shot short videos at the workshops for short feature and documentary films at the “Giffoni” Youth Film Festival, which took place from 4 to 8 October in Skopje. The Short Feature Film Workshop guided high-school students from the development of an idea, through filming, to post-production, while introducing them…

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MEDIA LITERACY DAYS 2024

Workshop: ICS Media Literacy Competencies

What knowledge and skills should a citizen possess to be media literate? This was the key question that the professors from the pedagogy and other faculties at various universities discussed with Croatian professor and media literacy expert, Igor Kanizhaj. Together with him, they looked at the traditional concepts of setting learning goals when creating a…

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MEDIA LITERACY DAYS 2024

High-School Students’ Skills in Spotting Disinformation In a Race Against Artificial Intelligence

High-school students have the skills to spot disinformation that, as they say, they grew up with; however, it still happens that some of them “slip” and share or fall for a certain manipulation. Their impression is that disinformation are massively present on all social networks, and to check these, they use different techniques starting from…

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MEDIA LITERACY DAYS 2024

[Video] Journalists Speak: AI May Be the Newsrooms’ Ally, but Cannot Replace the Journalists

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) tools is threatening daily to “squeeze out” humans from the professions. What is the situation in journalism? Did you know that in Macedonia we already have the first AI-generated TV programmes? To find out how this can affect journalism in our country, we asked some journalists about how…

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MEDIA LITERACY DAYS 2024

Workshop Held on “Recognizing and Responding to Hate Speech”

How to recognize hate speech? What measures should be taken to prevent its spread and consequences? How to strengthen the mechanisms that will help the fight against hate speech? The members of the Network for Combating Hate Speech in the Media and on the Internet discussed these questions today with Professor Elena Mihajlova Stratilati from…

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