Category: youth
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CORECON-based scientific event “Representing the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the media: Insights from the international project CORECON 2024-2026” during the Open Linguistic Seminar at the University of Opole
The event was organized on May 7, 2026 and brought over 80 attendees – faculty members, doctoral candidates and students – together with CORECON researchers to discuss selected project results and ensure that materials created in the project are applicable in other contexts, be they research-, impact- or education-oriented. Context and rationale Open Linguistic Seminar…
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How do journalism students perceive the ethics of AI-driven solutions in the newsroom?
During a recent scientific event organized by the CORECON team, we created an opportunity to discuss journalistic practices of conflict coverage as particularly prone to being manipulated by foreign hostile agents. At the same time, with a reduction of newsroom staff and the growing reliance on AI-driven tools to streamline and speed up the publication…
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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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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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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…