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Study: Many Saxons have little knowledge of the media

2021-10-11T10:36:53.125Z


According to a study, around a third of the Saxons have little knowledge of the media. This is the central finding of a study carried out by the State Center for Civic Education. Disinterest is seen as the biggest problem. “Media literacy is also democracy literacy. "Because only those who can recognize sources, actors and their interests and can critically question them can participate in the democratic discourse in a self-determined manner," said the director of the regional headquarters, Roland Löffler, on Monday.


According to a study, around a third of the Saxons have little knowledge of the media. This is the central finding of a study carried out by the State Center for Civic Education. Disinterest is seen as the biggest problem. “Media literacy is also democracy literacy. "Because only those who can recognize sources, actors and their interests and can critically question them can participate in the democratic discourse in a self-determined manner," said the director of the regional headquarters, Roland Löffler, on Monday.

Dresden - The authors of the study - Benjamin Bigl and Markus Schubert - described media competence as an elementary key competence in the digital age, which increasingly also affects leisure time, training, work and working life. "Our findings are also problematic in the context of the latest election results," said Bigl: "In rural areas in particular, people have significantly less knowledge of media and their structures, and digital communication services and tools are used significantly less than in urban areas."

According to the study, between 30 and 40 percent of the population in Saxony are unfamiliar with basic journalistic working methods and principles.

The largest gaps in knowledge exist among those surveyed under the age of 35.

"Around 20 percent of young adults are convinced that most of the media are owned by the state," said Bigl.

Almost 40 percent of those over 65 are convinced that the media have the function of guiding the formation of opinion in the population.

However, it is positive that every second person has a fundamental interest in further training courses on the media.

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Media addiction and addiction as well as exclusion and bullying on the net experienced especially young people as challenging, it said.

They demanded significantly more support in order to get orientation in the media world.

“The results are also a cry for help from the adolescents, which calls on all of us to act,” said Schubert.

Two thirds of the Saxons considered the introduction of a special school subject to be relevant or very relevant.

“The state has a responsibility to prepare society for the digital age,” concluded Bigl.

dpa

Source: merkur

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