Since
4th of July, 2017 multiple youngsters in project “Better News Media” have implemented
and realized social media campaign “Viltus.lv” with the main aim to raise media
literacy among young people and promote journalists' awareness of the problem
of refugees to combat racism and intolerance.
During
the campaign youth work group has made three video interviews – with the
executive director from Baltic Media Excellence Center Rita Ruduša about media
literacy and fake news, Bashar about fake facts and with Adibis from refugee
camp “Mucenieki” about refugees lives and the way how it is portrayed on social
media. Also there are two articles. The first one is based on the video that is
published on “youtube.com” and filmed by the politician Artuss Kaimiņš in which
he showed his unfounded intolerance about refugees living in Latvia. The second
article is about news monitoring regarding refugees that shows the total
picture in Latvian social media. During the project “Viltus.lv” team
participated in the conversation festival LAMPA and Dzīvā bibliotēka (Living Library) where the question about refugees being portrayed on social media was
discussed with Latvian society.
Active
campaign period will end in September, 2017, but campaign and all other
necessary information will be available until year 2018.
Check out web of the campaign: viltus.lv
and Facebook.com page: https://www.facebook.com/viltuslv/
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| conversation festival LAMPA |
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| Living library in Riga |
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| Living library in Riga |
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| Living library in Riga |
