News is one of the most serious media messages. What people often know about the world around them, they mostly get through the media. In other words, today’s complex and mechanized life is such that most of the information and knowledge of people is obtained through the media. From Since almost no media outlet is neutral and reflects and reconstructs the facts in its coverage of the day’s news, the information and knowledge that audiences receive from the media is not without bias. Distortion, lies, exaggeration, omission, etc. are among the actions. It is a tactic that the media applies throughout the news production process to its publication. This may ultimately lead to misleading the audience, which in turn can lead to irreparable losses.
This is especially sensitive among the younger generation. This segment of society is at greater risk of potential impacts due to less experience and information, as well as psychological development and development issues. Any misleading, biased, and sometimes false news in While it is packed with attractive visual and thematic elements, it can easily affect the emotional layers of the younger generation and lead them to serious dangers. What can best and most powerfully empower them to cope is media literacy, especially literacy. It is news media or news literacy.
News media literacy is the ability to apply critical thinking skills to judge the credibility of news and news reports and information sources. News media literacy enables citizens to be intelligent consumers of information. Since today Mass and individual media tools are easily and widely available to younger people, and they have access to countless and sometimes inaccurate information and news, so the importance of having news media literacy is very essential for them.
Students, as the future generation, must be able to consciously and actively engage with the news media in order to meet their cognitive needs in the process of selecting and filtering media messages, especially news. They must understand the media system in order to They can take control of their media consumption.
ResearchIt has been shown that the source of personal decision-making[1]The audience has the greatest impact on their news media literacy. The personal source of the audience is the most important concept that indicates the level of a person’s media literacy. This term refers to the place in the mind where decisions related to information processing are made. The term personal source of the audience Control information. The more conscious attention an individual pays to the source of their decision-making, the better they can control the processing and use of information.
What makes the audience use their decision-making source better is the structured knowledge and information that is embedded in the minds of the young audience. This information and knowledge is not obtained through the media, but rather the result of searching for reliable and diverse sources, as well as with a critical eye. It is embedded in his cognitive structure. Therefore, in order for the audience to be equipped with the weapon of media literacy, the most important thing is to have the power to make the right decision in the process of facing the media and accepting the messages sent by them. But the audience simply does not have such They do not achieve any ability or skill because it requires significant mental effort. This mental effort, which is a kind of constant state of alertness, must have a strong driving force, which is intrinsic motivation.
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Authored by:Nasser Asadi
[1]Personal Locus