{"id":1071,"date":"2023-07-28T07:38:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T07:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2023-10-12T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T14:22:10","slug":"bridging-boundaries-media-literacy-training-to-empower-civil-society-orgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/index.php\/2023\/07\/28\/bridging-boundaries-media-literacy-training-to-empower-civil-society-orgs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBridging Boundaries\u201d: Media Literacy training to empower Civil Society orgs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1073\" src=\"https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Image20230727145552.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"821\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Image20230727145552.jpg 821w, https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Image20230727145552-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Image20230727145552-768x545.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 821px) 100vw, 821px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Portuguese organization Aequalitas, and fellow ALF member, led an innovative 12hrs training course aiming to\u00a0empower civil society organisations by providing the necessary skills and competencies in the fields of media literacy and interculturality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trainers, Monica Corrigan and Leo Zbanke, welcomed participants from 11 countries: Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Lithuania, Greece, Finland, France, Palestine, Lebanon and Bulgaria. Aspasia Protogerou from Fotoessa had the privilege to participate in this hands-on digital training course which took place from July 24<sup>th<\/sup> to July 27<sup>th<\/sup> and was part of the ALF Hands-On training module\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The frame<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The developments and innovations in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) have changed the world we live in, making information, communication and knowledge more globalised, and broadening the influence of media, seen as a facilitator to connect people. The rise of social media and its by-products increased the amount of information available on the Internet, transforming everyday people into content producers. Media messages impact human dynamics both at local and global level, influencing economic behaviours, political analysis as much as interpersonal interactions and intercultural dialogue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The course<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This Media Literacy training course aimed to support civil society organisations to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Promote more responsible and efficient online communication<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reflect on stereotypes, their presence in media, and how to avoid them in our communication<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Explore counter-narratives to online bias, stereotypes and hate speech<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Create their own messages, campaigns and communication strategy considering global factors<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In this context, participants had the opportunity to learn more on:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Accessing, analyzing and evaluating media messages<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Interpretation of messages, text and subtext<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Basic persuasion techniques<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Storytelling and audiovisual tools<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portuguese organization Aequalitas, and fellow ALF member, led an innovative 12hrs training course aiming to\u00a0empower civil society organisations by providing the necessary skills and competencies in the fields of media literacy and interculturality. Trainers, Monica Corrigan and Leo Zbanke, welcomed participants from 11 countries: Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Lithuania, Greece, Finland, France, Palestine, Lebanon<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/index.php\/2023\/07\/28\/bridging-boundaries-media-literacy-training-to-empower-civil-society-orgs\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.fotoessa.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}