What harm does media illiteracy do?

According to Fars News Agency, a scientific meeting on media literacy and cyberspace literacy was held, emphasizing the need to train media literacy to officials, managers and the general public. In this meeting, which was chaired by Dr. Hamid Ziaei Parvar, Professor of Communication Sciences, issues such as the necessity and importance of media literacy education in the country and the programs of non-governmental groups to promote this important issue in society were reviewed.

Omid Ali Masoudi, President of the Iranian Media Literacy Association, stressed the need to acquire media literacy skills to avoid problems such as cybercrime, cyber addiction, and sometimes unusual relationships in cyberspace at the Media Literacy and Cyber ​​Literacy Conference.

“In today’s world, we are isolated from cyberspace,” he said. coronavirus It helped a lot, but with the help of media literacy, we can prevent the social, nervous and physical harms of cyberspace.

Pointing out that intellectual and emotional disruption is the worst case of illiteracy in cyberspace and this threatens the foundation of the family, Masoudi called media literacy and cyberspace literacy the way of life in today’s world.

The president of the Iranian Media Literacy Association, emphasizing the need to create a proper culture about technology, said: “It is the duty of each of us to learn media literacy skills to prevent many problems in the world today.”

“Unfortunately, some managers and officials have not performed properly and made good decisions about cyberspace, and it seems that cyber literacy and media literacy training should be provided for the university,” he said. Take officials seriously.

He stressed the importance of holding a training course for media literacy instructorsMost He mentioned the activities of the Iranian Media Literacy Association to spread media literacy education in the community and added: The association together with Soura University tried to raise the level of media literacy of educators and those interested in media literacy skills in the country by holding this training course.

“Our society seems to be lagging behind in the field of media literacy,” Masoudi said. Establish media literacy in the country through the real movement and acquaint everyone with this essential skill.

The head of the Iranian Media Literacy Association emphasized: National sovereignty is very important in media literacy and cyberspace.

Also, Masoumeh Nasiri, Vice President of the Media Management and Media Literacy Development Club of UNESCO Iran, said: “Media literacy, apart from its definitions, is a skill-based knowledge that must be considered in terms of skills acquisition.” Knowing how and where to apply this knowledge so that one can uncover the hidden layer of information that cyber security breaches and individuals working on the intellectual engineering of society in this context, means that we are equipped with media literacy.

Nasiri pointed out that media literacy creates a more accurate environment for us in the current media space of the world, and called media literacy the first step in confronting cyberspace. Lack of media literacy creates a loophole in the field of cyberspace in such a way that without media literacy, inputs and intellectual food of people enter their lives without a framework and as a result we see the creation of new values.

He said that escaping from media literacy training and the need to learn it is no longer justifiable and the responsible institutions should act more coordinated for this now, adding: “Certainly, media literacy is to maintain the attention and focus of people in cyberspace.” Their privacy, security cyber And even helps produce knowledge in the country.

The media literacy activist said: “UNESCO Iran Media Management and Literacy Development Club has entered the discussion of institutional and public education of media literacy and has made many efforts in this regard to play its role in the country’s media literacy movement.”

He added: “As long as our view of the field of media literacy is the view of Zinat al-Alami and the officials, managers and people do not look at it as a need and necessity, we will not have good conditions in this field.”
According to this report, Dr. Hamid Ziaei Parvar, Secretary of the Media Literacy and Cyber ​​Literacy Conference, also said at the meeting: “With all the harms that cyberspace has, it should be kept in mind that especially in the last 2 years and at the same time with the outbreak.” coronavirusThis space to earn And works And the education system has been very helpful and life-saving.

Nasiri said that in the field of entertainment, in my opinion, cyberspace today is perhaps the only escape for some people to have fun and escape from loneliness: “Cyberspace platforms today are people’s breathing space for entertainment.” It seems that the subject of education is acquisition وکارStartP Criticism and oversight of government and government functions are all valuable opportunities that cyberspace has provided to the public, but cyber literacy means that people can raise their information and knowledge to the extent that they can. Use space properly is thought-provoking.

“Unfortunately, the emphasis on technology phobia has meant that we have never been trained in the proper use of technology, and it seems that in such circumstances, the responsibility of non-governmental organizations such as the Media Literacy Association for education,” Ziaeiparvar said. Media literacy is very important.

He is the organizer of the Culture and Art Development Center in cyberspace of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance And sponsor He mentioned media literacy activities in the country and added: production of more than 300 MotionGraphics and animation in the field of media literacy training, holding various scans and supporting media literacy activities in various fields along with the development and implementation of platform requirements in the field of media literacy by this center is commendable.

He considered the supporter publications of the specialized publisher of media literacy books as a kind of flagship of writing books in the media literacy movement and said: the supporter publications have published more than 200 books in the field of media literacy so far.

According to this report, a specialized meeting on media literacy and cyberspace literacy in the form of a series of cyberspace scientific sessions organized by the Center for the Development of Culture and Art in Cyberspace in collaboration with the Research Institute of Islamic Science and Culture and the Institute of Understanding will take place on Tuesday evening. And the clubhouse was held.

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