'Trust, but verify': problems of formation of media literacy and critical thinking of Russian students. Issue 3 (2nd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kachkaeva, Anna; Kolchina, Anna; Shomova, Svetlana; Yarovaya, Elena
• Is Part Of: Media Practice and Education. Volume 21:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 200
• Page End: 211
• Publication Date: 2020-07-02
• Subjects: Media literacy -- critical thinking -- Russia; Journalism -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Mass media -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 302.23071141
• DOI: 10.1080/25741136.2020.1752569
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2574-1136

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The problems of media education and media literacy, which have been in the focus of attention of different sciences for a long time, are closely related to free media access possibilities and ability to produce own media texts, on the one hand, and the ability to critically interpret information, on the other hand, and, most importantly, they are related to the issues of trust in the media and in the content generated by it as a whole. At the same time, it should be noted that the trust phenomenon itself is one of the most complicated phenomena in public relations studies. Paradoxically, however, even though the level of trust in mass media as a social institution continues to remain an important indicator of societal well-being, the ability to take a critical view of any media message, characterize a certain maturity of the social environment, a certain level of media literacy and critical mindset of citizens. That is exactly why it deemed important for us to emphasize the issues of trust in information sources in the course of a survey of Russian students' media literacy level which took a few years, the results of which are presented in this article.