Front liners fighting fake news: Global perspectives on mobilising young people as media literacy advocates

With young people at the vanguard of technology adoption and media consumption, many governments are actively incorporating young people into their public education campaigns, and young people are enlisting themselves as media literacy advocates. This article reviews a selection of such media litera...

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Main Authors: LIM, Sun Sun, TAN, Kai Ryn
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spelling sg-smu-ink.cis_research-10852023-03-10T07:03:17Z Front liners fighting fake news: Global perspectives on mobilising young people as media literacy advocates LIM, Sun Sun TAN, Kai Ryn With young people at the vanguard of technology adoption and media consumption, many governments are actively incorporating young people into their public education campaigns, and young people are enlisting themselves as media literacy advocates. This article reviews a selection of such media literacy programmes to unpack their key thrusts and components so as to identify best practices and learning points. It will also closely investigate one particular youth-led effort and chart its conception, execution and development. 2020-10-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/86 info:doi/10.1080/17482798.2020.1827817 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1085/viewcontent/Front_liners_fighting_fake_news__global_perspectives_on_mobilising_young_people_as_media_literacy_ad.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection College of Integrative Studies eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University digital literacy Fake news media literacy public education social media young people Communication Technology and New Media Social Media
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
content_provider SMU Libraries
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language English
topic digital literacy
Fake news
media literacy
public education
social media
young people
Communication Technology and New Media
Social Media
spellingShingle digital literacy
Fake news
media literacy
public education
social media
young people
Communication Technology and New Media
Social Media
LIM, Sun Sun
TAN, Kai Ryn
Front liners fighting fake news: Global perspectives on mobilising young people as media literacy advocates
description With young people at the vanguard of technology adoption and media consumption, many governments are actively incorporating young people into their public education campaigns, and young people are enlisting themselves as media literacy advocates. This article reviews a selection of such media literacy programmes to unpack their key thrusts and components so as to identify best practices and learning points. It will also closely investigate one particular youth-led effort and chart its conception, execution and development.
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author LIM, Sun Sun
TAN, Kai Ryn
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TAN, Kai Ryn
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title Front liners fighting fake news: Global perspectives on mobilising young people as media literacy advocates
title_short Front liners fighting fake news: Global perspectives on mobilising young people as media literacy advocates
title_full Front liners fighting fake news: Global perspectives on mobilising young people as media literacy advocates
title_fullStr Front liners fighting fake news: Global perspectives on mobilising young people as media literacy advocates
title_full_unstemmed Front liners fighting fake news: Global perspectives on mobilising young people as media literacy advocates
title_sort front liners fighting fake news: global perspectives on mobilising young people as media literacy advocates
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2020
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/86
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1085/viewcontent/Front_liners_fighting_fake_news__global_perspectives_on_mobilising_young_people_as_media_literacy_ad.pdf
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