1. This Manifesto contains Intentions and Beliefs of Youth Workers and Youngsters regarding Media and Media Literacy:
01. Media is images, sounds and text and/or a combination of them, created by people for people.
02. Media is a tool that people communicate with.
03. Media is connecting people and can facilitate relationships between people.
04. Media is an opportunity to share a message worldwide.
05. Media has a direct and everyday effect on our life.
06. Media Literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms.
07. A media literate person:
- is able to understand how and why people produce media
- is aware of manipulation and reacts to it out of personal choice, using critical thinking.
- choses what media to use, see, hear, in daily life.
- uses media creatively to express ideas and share information, in an accountable and respectful way.
- participates in society using media.
- uses media to promote and claim human rights for himself/herself and others.
08. We understand media as a teaching and learning process.
09. Everyone must have the opportunity to become media literate, through formal, informal and non-formal
education, regardless of gender, disabilities, status etc.
10. By developing media literacy we want to empower youth to take action in using media.
I, undersigned, fully agree to the above Manifesto