MEDIA LITERACY DAYS 2022
„THINK CRITICALLY – GATHER THE WHOLE STORY“
The Media Literacy Network announces the 2022 Media Literacy Days, dedicated to diversity and media literacy, to be held from 25th October to 1st November 2022, under the motto “Think Critically, Gather the Whole Story”.
This event shall make RN Macedonia part of the UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week, which will be held under the motto “Nurturing Trust: A Media and Information Literacy Imperative”, for the fourth time.
During these days, it is planned to hold many events, both online and with physical presence, as well as special media content and a film programme, thus opening up a number of aspects of diversity in the media.
We are inviting all interested parties to take part in the events and follow the news on the pages of the Media Literacy Network on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, as well as on the website https://mediumskapismenost.mk/ .
Watch the video and audio clips announcing the 2022 Media Literacy Days at the following links:
Audio spot – MEDIA LITERACY DAYS 2022
Video spot – MEDIA LITERACY DAYS 2022
Within the framework of DMP 2022, on 28.10.2022 a public session of the Complaints Commission at the Media Ethics Council of Macedonia was held, at which all received complaints related to violations of professional and ethical standards in the written (press and news agencies), electronic (TV and radio) and internet were considered the media in…
There is a short video that talks about successfully implemented activities and achieved effects. We hope that we will put together a whole exhibition in which, for the first time, we will successfully network medium and film literacy under the motto of “diversity”.
As part of Media Literacy Days 2022, “Blaze Koneski” Faculty of Philology – Skopje, Institute of Communication Studies and Media Literacy Project YouThink held the panel discussion “MEDIA LITERACY AND STUDENTS”, which is also part of USAID’s “Youth Think” media literacy program. The discussion covered numerous aspects of media literacy, its involvement in educational processes…
Skopje, 29 October 2022 (MIA) – The ability to access, understand, analyze and critically evaluate different media and media content, as well as create communication content in different contexts, is the basis of media literacy. It is necessary for smooth functioning in all spheres of society, especially in the digital world and the “new reality”…
Skopje, 13 November 2022 (MIA) – The film has a great impact on the development of creative, critical and cultural knowledge, skills and future competencies among children, and according to experts, it is an equally effective tool for strengthening the motivation to learn. However, this cultural art is trying to find its place within the…
AAAVMS organized a workshop on the media needs of persons with disabilities, as part of the 2022 Media Literacy Days, titled “IMMEDIATE ACCESSIBILITY”. The workshop sought answers to the following questions: – How do people with disabilities perceive the way they are portrayed in the media? – What are their actual communication needs? – What…
How are persons with atypical development, i.e. young people with different conditions and disabilities, portrayed in the public and the media? How to improve their visibility in public life, and not marginalize them? Watch a summarized video of the Loud and Clear online discussion on “How Media Cover Youth with Atypical Development.” The discussion was…
Wishing to contribute to the 2022 Media Literacy Days event, the UKLO FM-Bitola University Radio, of “Sv. Kliment Ohridski” University in Bitola, which is part of the Media Literacy Network, aired its latest, 37th, edition of the children’s radio show, “Hear Us Out!”, he worked under the motto “Think critically, Gather the Whole Story”. The…
High-school students most often recognize disinformation in the areas of healthcare and politics. Disinformation is usually perceived in breaking and bombastic headlines on the social networks, said the students of the Gostivar High School of Medicine, at the workshop on the “Techniques of Journalistic Writing and Detection of Disinformation”. The workshop was organized by the…
MOVIES influence children and young people in a cultural, creative and critical way! A total of 2,139 students from 20 schools around Skopje joined in the activity that was successfully carried out – the free screening of thematic films for children from the elementary schools (6th to 9th graders). There were eight movie screenings in…
The exhibition will be opened on November 1, 2022 at 19:30 hrs at “Europe House” in Skopje (Europe House Skopje), and will be available to the visitors in the next three months. The multimedia techniques and tools will help the visitors learn more about false information, the role of the Internet users in its dissemination,…
The Media Literacy and Disinformation Research Cluster (MeDisInfo) of the Max van der Stoel Institute, University of Southeast Europe (USEE), will be broadcasting a Podcast titled “The Future Generation in the Age of Disinformation” on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, at 10 a.m. The guest speakers in this podcast are the USEE students Valon Dauti from…
This past Monday (31 October 2022, at 13:00 hrs), the Media Literacy Network held a meeting at the premises of the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services. The meeting was attended by Emilija Petreska-Kamenjarova (AVMU), Sasho Bogdanovski (AVMU), Viktor Stojanov (AVMU), Marina Trajkova (AVMU), Ivana Stojanovska (AVMU), Marina Tuneva (media expert), Bojan Shashevski (MOF),…
The panel discussion on “Media Literacy and the Students” is the first public event that the “Blazhe Koneski Faculty of Philology, ICS and IREX have organized within the project on “Introducing Media Literacy to the Future Philologists,” with the support of the “YouThink” programme of the American Agency for International Development (USAID). Vice Dean for…
We will be learning how to recognize disinformation, where to report it, and also how to create media content, at the media laboratory that the Institute of Communication Studies is organizing on 26 October (Wednesday), starting from 13:00 hrs, at the SOMU “Gostivar”, in Gostivar. The workshop is part of the “Use Facts” project of…
How do people with disabilities perceive the way in which they are presented in the media? What are their communication needs, in fact? What can media do to respond to those needs and change the way they report on them? These are some of the topics that will be discussed at the workshop titled “Accessibility…
On 31 October 2022, starting at 13:00 hrs., the Media Literacy Network will hold its Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held in the premises of the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (2nd-floor conference hall).
The “Metamorphosis” Foundation for Internet and Society is inviting you to a panel discussion titled “Diversities and Disinformation in the Western Balkans”, which will be held on October 31, 2022 in Skopje, starting at 14:00 hrs, on the Zoom video communication platform. The discussion is open to the public and to representatives of the media.…
An online presentation of the results of the study titled “Moral Panic and Portrayal of the LGBTI Community in the Media” will be held on 1 November 2022 in the period from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., on the Zoom platform, organized by the “Margini” Coalition. You can join the event via the following link:…
Skopje, 28 October 2022 – Today, as part of the 2022 Media Literacy Days, the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services held a workshop titled “Accessibility without Undue Delay – Media Needs of People with Disabilities”. The workshop was aimed at helping broadcasters and providers of on-demand audiovisual media services to manage more easily their…
On 28.10.2022 (Friday), at 17:00 hrs, the Council for Media Ethics of Macedonia will hold an online public session of the Complaints Commission, within the framework of the marking of the MLDs, at which the Council for Media Ethics of Macedonia will be looking into current complaints it has received. The Complaints Commission reviews all…
RADIO MOF’S OPEN DAY “What It’s Like to Be the Voice of Diversity” is the theme of the Open Day at MOF Radio, which will take place on Friday, 28 October 2022, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., as part of the #MediaLiteracyDays All interested young people can come, enter and look around the offices…
On 27 October (Thursday) at 12:00 hrs, MOF Radio shall join in the #MediaLiteracyDays with its “Loud and Clear” online video-discussion on the topic of “How Media Reports on Youth on the Margins”. The focus will be placed on persons with atypical development, i.e. young people with different conditions and disabilities. The discussion will raise…
The “Blaze Koneski” Faculty of Philology in Skopje, the Institute of Communication Studies – IKS and the YouThink Media Literacy Project announce the holding of a panel discussion titled “Media Literacy and the Students”, which will be held on 27.10.2022 (Thursday), at 12:30 hrs, at Amphitheatre 3 of the Faculty of Philology. The event is…
The 2022 Media Literacy Days, dedicated to diversity and media literacy, under the motto “Think Critically, Gather the Whole Story,” also offer, as part of their programme, free access for the schools to movie screenings of thematic films intended for 6th-to-9th graders. The three thematic movies films will be shown in three movie theaters between…
The panel discussion titled “Using Media Literacy to Educate Young Generations without Prejudices and Stereotypes” will be held on 26 October (Wednesday), at the “Holiday Inn” hotel in Skopje, starting at 11:00 hrs. The panelists include teachers, professors, representatives of civil society organizations and journalists, who will discuss media literacy as one of the mechanisms…
The 2022 Media Literacy Days, dedicated to diversity and media literacy, under the motto “Think Critically, Gather the Whole Story,” also offer free tickets, , as part of their programme, for movies from the regular repertoire, intended for people with disabilities in its program. This activity is carried out by the Film Literacy Working Group…
The Macedonian Television (MRT) has been contributing continuously to promoting media literacy among children, young people and adults. Within the framework of the 2022 MLD, from 25.10.2022 until 01.11.2022, educational shows will be aired: – the series THE WIZARD AND SMARTY-PANTS (premiere, every working day at 11:15 hrs), – the series YOUTH FOR YOUTH (on…
Skopje, 25 October 2022 – This year’s Media Literacy Days shall be held starting today until 1 November 2022, under the motto “Think Critically, Gather the Whole Story,”. The event is being organized by the Media Literacy Network. In this way, our country is joining in the UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy Week, for the…
Skopje, 21 October 2022 – The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services shall hold a press conference on 25 October 2022 (Tuesday), starting at 11:00 hrs, at which Agency Director Zoran Trajchevski will open the 2022 Media Literacy Days. In the period from 25 October until 1 November 2022, the Agency for AAVMS and…
The 2022 Media Literacy Days, fourth in a row, will be held in the week of 25 October – 1 November, under the motto “Think critically, Gather the Whole Story”. A larger number of the Network’s members and their supporters joined in the event’s organization this year: the Macedonian Institute for Media, IREX, the USAID…