Skopje, 28 October 2024 – Starting from today until 4 November 2024, the Media Literacy Network is organizing the Media Literacy Days event for the sixth time, this year under the motto “Your Awareness is the Most Important Filter”. Fifteen members of the Network, along with their supporters, will organize a total of 22 events at different venues throughout the country, while some of these will also be held online. In this way, our country is joining in the UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy Week.
At today’s Conference titled “Media Literacy Policies in the Artificial Intelligence Era,” AVMU Director Zoran Trajchevski pointed out that “the Media Literacy Days are the most significant national event in mobilizing the citizens, civil society organizations, educational institutions, media and state institutions, as well as in raising their awareness of the importance of media literacy. This year’s focus is on artificial intelligence, which is already so present that we felt that we must inevitably discuss it a little more profoundly.”
The Conference included three panels, of which the first panel included the workshop on “Artificial Intelligence and Copyright” with the German expert Hannes Henke, PhD, engaged through the Twinning Project on “Enhancing the Capacities of the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services and the Public Broadcasting Service”. The second panel, organized by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, involved discussion on the topic of “Ethics in the Use of Artificial Intelligence”, while the last panel, titled “Policies for Developing Awareness of the Risks of Disinformation”, organized by the Research Institute on Social Development (RESIS), presented the comparative findings of the Monitor of Media Pluralism in the Digital Era (MPM 2024), regarding the indicators of media literacy and protection against disinformation.
For the needs of the Media Literacy Days 2024, video and audio spots have been made in the Macedonian, Albanian and English languages. The videos are already being aired by the media in order to inform an as large a number of citizens as possible about the media literacy events.
More information about the events that will be held live or online and about the media content that will be shown as part of the ML Days are available on the websites www.mediumskapismenost.mk and www.avmu.mk and on the Network’s Facebook and Instagram pages and the Youtube channel of the Media Literacy Network.