Category: media literacy
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From research to practice: recommendations for journalism training and media literacy. Implications from all CORECON results in one booklet.
This blogpost showcases the recent online publication that is made available as a CORECON output: Recommendations for Journalism Training and Critical Media Literacy: Based on CORECON Project (2024-2026) By early 2026, the CORECON project had spawned over two dozen studies. Some studies are comparative and based on the three language-specific media coverage corpora. Others are…
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Simulation games as tools for producing journalism policy recommendations
What are the solutions to challenges of journalism in the era of AI? How to improve guidelines, policies, and ethical codes for journalists? Can simulation games help answer these questions? The Polish subteam of CORECON piloted a simulation game in which participants role-played the work of a media outlet. The game was seen as a…
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CORECON-based scientific event “Responsible journalism in the era of AI” as a FORTHEM Alliance collective short-term mobility at University of Opole
The event was organized 27-31 October 2025 and brought FORTHEM students of communication together with researchers and practitioners, in order to revisit the notion of responsible journalism in the era marked by rapid technological advancements, particularly the increasing influence of algorithms, AI-powered applications, and big-tech-controlled networking platforms. Context and rationale In the last few years…
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Adolescents’ Perception of the War inUkraine on Social Media: A Researchers’ Night Experiment
Adolescents increasingly learn about geopolitics through social media feeds optimized for engagement rather than accuracy. During Researchers’ Night, we piloted a rapid, skills-based intervention aimed at improving Romanian teens’ judgments of Russia–Ukraine war headlines. Participants completed a brief pretest survey and rated a mix of verified and fabricated headlines. They then received a short lesson…
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Outreach: Disseminating CORECON’s preliminary results and involving students and practitioners.
One of CORECON’s prospective lasting impacts is to raise language awareness of war reporting which then enables critical media literacy and to sensitize journalists to some of the traps of click-driven news mediation. Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska discussed these issues during a recent visit at University of Valencia in Spain. The question of how war is represented…
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Fostering resilience against war disinformation among the youth:CORECON joins forces with FORTHEM’s DisInfoResist to develop a research study and intervention for schools
DisInfoResist is the name of the FORTHEM student-driven pilot study and intervention project devoted to building up resilience to disinformation on Russian-Ukrainian conflict among Polish teenagers. It took place in Opole in the spring semester of 2024 and was carried out by a group of University of Opole MA students of English Philology supervised by…