T&L Template 2023_Tartu

Description

This course aims to empower students to combat online hostility and misinformation by equipping them with media literacy and contemporary journalism skills. Students actively learn by creating impactful micro-interventions, such as a campaign on digital hygiene tips, media and information literacies themed escape room design and a pub quiz on media trivia. It's spin-off course, Media and Information Literacies' Micro-Interventions (MILMI), builds on micro-interventions by developing students' media literacy and social skills to collectively reshape toxic digital spaces.

Themes:

Digital Resilience and Data Agency, Media Literacy Skills, Contemporary Journalism, Multi-disciplinarity, Information Society, Data Journalism

Duration:

A Semester

University of Tartu, Estonia

Active teaching methodologies

Course Objectives

2023

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