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

• Main Authors: LIM, Sun Sun, TAN, Kai Ryn
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: digital literacy; Fake news; media literacy; public education; social media; young people; Communication Technology and New Media; Social Media
• Online Access: 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
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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.