The exhibition “Media literacy against fake news” opened in Smederevo

Students of Smederevo High School have the opportunity to learn how to recognize fake news and be safer on the Internet through the exhibition “Media Literacy Against Fake News”.

– We came to see this exhibition with professor Dušica Slavković, as part of the course “Language, media and culture”. I check the news I read depending on the place where it was published and the person who published it. After this exhibition, I will be even more careful – says Andrija Gvozdenović, a first-grader, as reported by Smederevske novine.

Serbian language professor Tatjana Lazarevic said that the exhibition will improve the media literacy of young people in Smederevo, that the exhibition will be discussed in classes, but that one must also “turn on the brain” (before the exhibition).

“We address young people in this way because they are the most susceptible to misinformation, social networks are most often their source of all information,” said journalist Olivera Milošević, vice-president of the Association of Journalists of Serbia and member of the Complaints Commission of the Press Council.

Students were given copies of the Media Literacy Lexicon to understand terms such as: bot, clickbait, phishing, hate speech, trolling, privacy protection and others.

The exhibition was prepared by the Press Council as part of the project “Building trust in the media in Southeast Europe and Turkey – phase two”, which was supported by the European Commission and UNESCO.