Coronavirus as a source of media manipulation

Fedorov A. V.

Levitskaya A. A.

Novikov A. S.

The authors of the article offer the following media technology that resists manipulation: 1) the audience should understand that any ambiguous event (the more so, the current coronavirus epidemic) is instantly surrounded by false or conspiracy rumors, accusations, speculations, false news; 2) to help the audience to understand how exactly the preliminary engagement of a person influences what and how he searches, accepts, spreads in the media sphere (and in the circle of personal communication); 3) teach the audience not only to get media information from different sources, but also to compare different points of view on the problem, rather than to make an instant judgment (often false) about the information just received from an unverified source; 4) help the audience gain experience of qualified analysis of media information coming from a variety of sources reflecting different points of view.

Keywords: media education, CIS countries, media literacy, media competence.

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