High school students often recognize misinformation in health and politics. Misinformation is usually recognized in headlines and bombastic headlines on social networks, say the students from the secondary medical school from Gostivar at the workshop: “Techniques of journalistic writing and recognition of misinformation”. The workshop was organized by the Institute for Communication Studies on October 26 within the framework of the Media Literacy Days 2022 at the “Gostivar” SOMU.
Most of the networks on which young people like Tik-Tok and Instagram represent a fertile climate for sharing fake videos and photos is the experience of the students of this school. And it is precisely in the field of medicine, that is, in the information related to the COVID-19 pandemic and in politics, that fake news is most often recognized.
Danica Sretkoska and Ramize Ramadani, students from this school, say that such media literacy workshops will not only improve their writing skills, but will also help them check the information that is posted on traditional and digital media, and especially on social networks. “The workshop helped me how to write a news story answering the main journalistic questions and how to recognize fake news,” says high school student Ramadani.
The event is part of the “Use Facts” project and joins as an activity Media Literacy Days 2022 organized by the Media Literacy Network.
