The goal of the course is to contribute to raising awareness up in media literacy, information and digital literacy (MIDL);
Acquire an understanding of the historical context and current trends of digital communication;
Develop an awareness of the unintended consequences of new technology;
Develop a set of skills for making short, informed pieces of multimedia products for real-world events and concerns;
Become a critical consumer of internet information;
Reach new media functions and working methods;
Mastering new media tools;
Developing the skills of producing multimedia and interactive journalistic products;
To equip participants to be better prepared to combat ‘astroturfing’ and ‘trolling’, digital safety threats, and online abuse in a gender-sensitive manner;
- Teacher: Tinatin Dvalishvili