{"id":167487,"date":"2025-01-30T16:29:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T22:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=167487"},"modified":"2025-06-13T14:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T20:32:54","slug":"media-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/tech\/media-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Disinformation: How Universities Can Lead Media Literacy Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Media literacy can help counter the effects of infodemics and disinformation, including fake news and hate speech, said speaker Felipe Chib\u00e1s during his presentation at IFE Conference 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chib\u00e1s, a professor at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, and recipient of UNESCO\u2019s 2023 Global Media and Information Literacy Award, is a leading advocate of the MIL Cities concept (Media and Information Literacy Cities)\u2014 a model that can also be applied in smaller urban areas and higher education institutions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He explained that the concept aims to educate an entire city (or a university population) through media literacy, integrating critical thinking, creativity, and ethical use of technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chib\u00e1s expressed concern that while technology has rapidly advanced, ethics and other social frameworks have not kept pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, today, people are increasingly tied to digital devices and emerging technologies such as generative artificial intelligence, which, while becoming more visible and widespread, has also contributed to a rise in attacks against women, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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