Since the beginning of the pandemic, incorrect information or fake news related to the Covid-19 spread out uncontrollably and caused panic and unrest in the community. This is in line with the report from Ministry of Communication and Information of Republic Indonesia that shown as February 2022, there is 2121 fake news related to Covid-19 or infodemic circulated in social media in Indonesia. For this reason, the need for the role of digital literacy in preventing and anticipating infodemic discussed in this paper. Using qualitative research approach with library research methods, it was found that the need of digital literacy to raise awareness of selecting and checking the sources of information, training critical thinking to every information, the importance of developing skills to identify incorrect information, and correcting infodemic in the society.

The article provides an analysis of the Russian citizens patriotic education taking into consideration the generation characteristics. The state patriotic education programs have been aimed at these audiences for the past twenty years and included special patriotic mass media activities. The authors apply to the theory of generations and identify the features of the Russian various age citizens' patriotic ideology and its correlation with state instruments and measures for patriotic education through the media for four periods (2001-2005, 2006-2010, 2011-2015, 2016-2020). The study addresses the mass media role and functions in public opinion forming; the research also comprises the exploring interaction between general state patriotic education and media as a patriotic idea guide for different generations groups. Generalizing their scientific results, authors conclude that it is necessary to revise the mass media role in patriotic education and formation of young patriots in future state programs, based on the peculiarities of the new generations vision of the world. The article includes the proposals and recommendations for the special mass media events promoting patriotic idea in new media to secure the most effective results of such programs implementation in the future.

This article focuses on the problem of forming general professional competencies and skills of journalists in the conditions of digitalization of RUDN University's additional education. The purpose of this article is to present the possibilities of digitalization of additional education to form general professional competencies at the Department of Mass Communications of RUDN Faculty of Philology. Objectives of the article are to present a brief overview of research on the subject of digitalization of higher education; to identify the main directions of digitalization of additional education programs based on RUDN experience, and to analyze the potential of digitalization of additional education in the context of building general professional competencies and skills based on the monitoring scheme. The research methodology includes methods of the general scientific group, as well as a number of special methods, which allow realizing the purpose and objectives set in the work. Through research, the method of sociological modeling was used within the framework of the criteria proposed by the authors of the article; the general probability sample can make up 300 people: 1st, 2nd and 3rd-year students of journalism at RUDN and in the programs of additional education. The research allowed the authors to conclude that the digitalization of additional education programs will solve some problems of forming general professional competencies (in particular, in relation to the acquisition of skills to work with user content). The authors of the article also come to the conclusion that the digitalization of RUDN additional education programs at the Department of Mass Communications will allow students to more fully master the general professional competencies required by FSES "+++" for the Bachelor's degree.

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