How Information Disorder Affirms Authoritarianism and Destabilizes Democracy: Evidence, Trends, and Actionable Mitigation Strategies from Asia and the Pacific

Internationalisation of Education: Focus on Central Asia and Eastern Neighbourhood

“…Developing media literacy competencies to counter the global spread of mis/disinformation can be supported through the integration of media literacy in school curriculums (Karanfiloğlu & Sağlam, 2023;McDougall et al, 2018). Teacher training and continuous professional development is considered essential to equip teachers with the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes to effectively teach media literacy (Buehler et al, 2021;McDougall et al, 2018). IREX's evaluation of the long-term impact of Learn to Discern (L2D) media training in Ukraine revealed that L2D participants had higher levels of disinformation news analysis skills and critical thinking abilities; and were better at identifying facts and opinions, and false stories (see Haigh et al, 2021;Murrock et al, 2018a and2018b).…”

“…Research on developing media literacy in Europe indicates that teacher training and continuous professional development is essential to equip teachers with the relevant knowledge, skills, and attitudes to effectively teach about media literacy (McDougall et al, 2018). Similarly, a study on mitigation strategies for mis/disinformation in Kyrgyzstan stresses that such a programme should first 'educate the educators', as many teachers lack the skills to spot false narratives (Buehler et al, 2021). L2D training in Ukraine provided training for teachers who would eventually train students in media and information literacy (Haigh et al, 2021).…”

“…Experts often cite low levels of digital literacy as a key reason why distorted information spreads within communities (Frolova et al, 2022;Buehler et al, 2021). Developing internet skills is in turn seen as an effective way to develop media competence, particularly the ability to resist information manipulation and to determine the reliability of an information source (Frolova et al, 2022).…”