Session Information
ERG SES D 02, Pecha Kucha Poster Session
Poster +Pecha Kucha Session
Contribution
The huge role of the media in the life of modern people has identified the need for the development of media education in the world. The ability of perception, analysis, evaluation and media texts creation, understanding the socio-cultural context of the media functioning in the modern world are the necessary conditions of people’s life in the information society [1, 2, 3, 4].
The role of mass media in the modern society is dual. On the one hand, they can have a manipulative influence, limit the surrounding world perception , stereotype mind, provoke viewers to copy aggressive behavior models [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13]. On the other hand, mass media are the inexhaustible source of information, capable of providing the most difficult information clearly and figuratively, enriching the viewers’ perception, developing the propensity to work , creativity and active position in obtaining information [14, 15, 16]. So, the goals of media education can be divided into two major blocks. The first block of objectives is aimed at curbing the negative media effects. The second block is oriented at the formation and development of skills concerning the use of various media for solving personal and professional problems.
Media texts are a convenient tool used in the training environment organization to contribute to the solution of these tasks:
- With the help of media texts, you can create professional situations, «similar to the real world» of the future specialist in the most various areas of activity, controlling all the experimental components of these situations;
- The training environment with the use of media texts is programmable and allows to change the objects parameters and the situations occurring to them depending on the tutor’s tasks easily;
- One can have an opportunity to complete the registration of behavioral reactions with the help of the tests selected by the experiment conductor on purpose:
- Media texts can provide bright visual and auditory images at one and the same time, thus intensifying the informational impact;
-While analyzing their personal attitude and their fellow students’ attitude towards media texts through the prism of psychological laws students get the practical understanding of the specificity of the media texts psychological influence on a person ;
-Analyzing and comparing the media texts grouped according to the thematic blocks, finding out their identities and differences can make it possible to assimilate the obtained information at a deeper level and form the critical attitude towards the information they get;
-The work with media texts because of their ambiguity and potential variety of senses can influence the development of students’ creative approach towards the problems to solve;
-While working with media texts, self-controlling and controlling the right position in solving the problems, students can reveal the capability of the reflexive analysis of their own actions, that helps to realize the necessity of self-development and stimulate the cognitive motivation;
- Analyzing the peculiarities of the media texts positive and negative influence either on the whole society or on an individual gives opportunities to realize the attitude towards moral and ethical problems concerning the Mass Media functioning in our society.
The aim of the research : working out and approbation of the programme for the use of media texts in the organization of the learning process of future specialists in the sphere of communications.
Hypotheses:
The use of media texts concerning the future specialists’ professional activity as an educational resource will positively influence the complex of individual personal characteristics including creativity, values of humanistic nature, adequate self-esteem from the point of view of the future professionals, communicative and organizational skills.
Method
Expected Outcomes
References
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