KA 154: Digital world

Digital world (KA154 - Youth Participation Activity) - media literacy, prevention from alcoholic and drug addiction.

Venue: Bulgaria
Dates: Autumn-Winter of 2022

According to the UNESCO Institute for Information Technology in Education, media literacy is defined as a set of knowledge, skills, attitudes, competencies and practices that allow effective access, analysis, critical evaluation, interpretation, use, creation and dissemination of information and media products using of existing tools and instruments for creative, legal and ethical basis. Media literacy, the ability to determine the truth of facts and news, to analyze and evaluate the value of information messages are defined as "21st century skills".
In the last few years, scrolling in the media and social networks has become increasingly popular, with aimless action being an invisible threat to young people. Naivety and lack of experience for them is the key to the success of online advertising. While checking your Facebook and Instagram accounts used to be less complex, but today social platforms are filled with ads for alcohol, drugs and narcotics, and advertisements are often intimate and sexually explicit. Young people become easily vulnerable and can quickly fall victim to online digital harassment.
According to a study conducted for the project among students, the data on alcohol and drug use are really alarming and raise doubts about the spread of the invisible threat in society.
- 47% of fourth graders have consumed alcohol one or more times in their lives.
- 22% of them have used alcohol in the last thirty days.
- 83% of students from 8-th to 12-th grade use cigarettes almost daily.
- 39% of students have used marijuana at least once in their lives, and 26% said they use drugs almost every week.
- Over 94% of respondents say they have encountered sexual content on the Internet, and more than half have not shared it with their family because they are afraid and unaware of the consequences.
- Nearly 38% of respondents received obscene sexual offers from older people, and were encouraged to share intimate content.
In the process of online learning and most of the time spent in front of the mobile screen, the threat of spreading fake news, drug and alcohol advertisements, as well as invitations for intimate relationships with strangers on social networks increased by over 60% compared to previous years. The spread of false information about coronavirus infection, anti-vaccine populism and lack of digital health hygiene is the biggest threat facing young people.
The main goal of the project is to educate young people by showing them how to critically analyze the information they come across and to determine the extent to which it is relatively acceptable in the hustle and bustle in everyday life.

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Deadline: 18.02.2021