How to Measure the Effects of Media Education Activities on High-school Students’ News Consumption
(2025) NordMedia 2025 Imagining Livable Futures — Location: Odense, Danemark (13.August.2025)
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- The current news environment combines traditional media - television, newspapers and the radio - with new forms of distribution of information, such as the internet and social media. While this context is affecting the work of journalists, it is also changing the practices of users, who are faced with information overload. Navigating the information context is then made more difficult, which can mean complex access to quality information. Yet, in a healthy democracy, access to information is a necessity. The concept of news literacy emerged to address these issues. This paper presents a doctoral project examining the effects of news media activities on the level of news literacy of high-school students. Over six weeks, six classrooms in northern France took part in media education and journalism workshops, led by journalists. As a culmination of these activities, students produced a news media piece, such as an interview, a podcast, or a news-focused Instagram account. This paper explores the impact of these workshops on three dimensions of news literacy that may help citizens become more empowered and informed: their trust in the news media, their motivation to stay informed, and their everyday information practices. Preliminary results show small but positive improvements in all three dimensions studied.
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Marc, L. (2025). How to Measure the Effects of Media Education Activities on High-school Students’ News Consumption. NordMedia 2025 Imagining Livable Futures, Odense, Danemark. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/272757