Open lesson on media literacy

27.10.2021

An online meeting with a practicing journalist was held at the Faculty of Ukrainian Philology and Social Communications. 

The Associate Professor of the Department of Journalism and Publishing Kateryna Ulianova, as part of the celebration of the Global Media and Information Literacy Week, held an open lesson for the 2nd year applicants of the FUPSC.

At the initiative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2012, every autumn the Global MIL Week is held, which is traditionally celebrated in Ukraine and is designed to focus on issues of media education, its improvements, as well as the ability to use information.

This year, Global Media and Information Literacy Week fell on the period from October 25 to October 29 and was implemented at the level of our university in an informal event that took place on October 26, 2021 on the online platform “ZOOM” within the discipline of free choice for students “Media Literacy”.

The guest of honor of the lesson was a professional TV journalist, editor of the social project “One for All” (TV channel “STBˮ”), an applicant for the second (master’s) level of higher education in the specialty “Journalism” Olena Vozna. The event was attended by teachers and employees of the Department of Journalism and Publishing, master’s students and members of the Youth Scientific and Professional Club at the FUPSC.

Olena Vozna, an experienced TV journalist in the genre of social investigation, illustrated to future philologists and journalists the most important foundations of a specialist’s media activity using the example of the country’s most resonant social and psychological television program, which is dedicated to the shocking stories of ordinary people – the talk show “One for All”. So, the editor, using specific examples, revealed the stages of preparing a journalistic investigation, specific and informal methods and means of collecting information material (“green room”, polygraph, graphological examination, psychological research, forensic examination, DNA, databases, “human factor”, etc.), spoke about the behind-the-scenes of the creation of a TV show, noted the unpredictable difficulties that a journalist may encounter in collaboration with atypical heroes, and gave practical advice for novice journalists.

The meeting was interesting and productive, the knowledge gained became another step towards the professional growth of applicants in the context of the implementation of the important principles of responsibility and reliability.

According to the Department of Journalism and Publishing