The best way to guide, especially younger people, so that they identify calls fake news and ‘hate speech’ in web It is media education, increasingly essential, in an increasingly hyperconnected world.
It is based on this diagnosis that the Social Communication Secretariat (Secom) of the Presidency of the Republic, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, promoted, last Thursday (28) – International Day of Universal Access to Information – a webinar, pre-launching the Brazilian Media Week, scheduled to take place between the 23rd and 27th of this month, which corresponds to the Brazilian chapter of UNESCO's global agenda on Media Literacy (MIL Week 2023). The event also has the support of civil society organizations that work on the topic, such as Instituto Vero, Instituto Palavra Aberta, Safernet Brasil, Redes Cordiais and Intervozes.
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With an annual program since 2011, MIL Week 2023 seeks to strengthen Brazil's connection with this debate international, whose theme this year is “Media and Information Literacy in Digital Spaces: a global agenda collective.”
For the director of the Department of Network Rights and Media Education at Secom, Victor Pimenta, “our challenge is to build a media education that is alive, that is pulsating, connected with people's reality and that offers children, adolescents and adults the tools that are necessary to navigate the complexity of this digital world of today".
Regarding the event, Pimenta emphasizes that it is part of a ‘broad and priority agenda’ in the federal government, which encompasses measures in order to make the Brazilian State ‘capable of offering quality public education for everyone’.
“The Ministry of Education is largely responsible for this mission. Here at the Presidency, and more specifically at the Secretariat of Social Communication, we have the responsibility to contribute a piece, which is small, when we consider the full scope of education and its challenges, but which, at the same time, is absolutely fundamental and structuring, and that is why it becomes a gigantic piece of importance, which is education for the media”, explained the director from Secom.
“This partnership between MEC and Secom comes at a very right time. It was a great meeting of demands that we already had here at the Ministry”, approved the general coordinator of Technology and MEC Innovation, Ana Dal Fabbro, when commenting that the ministry's partnership with Secom reinforces fundamental projects for the folder.
