The Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center (HURIGHTS OSAKA) has finally produced their publication Human Rights Education in Asia-Pacific (Volume 10) and it includes an article “Media and Information Literacy in Cambodia”.
The introduction of the article reads: “Many Cambodians, especially the youth, would prefer social media (Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube) rather than the traditional media (television, radio, newspaper) as the source of information on everything. In the modern Cambodian society, they can get any kind of information through their smartphones.
The youth spend much time online and actively participate in sharing, commenting, posting, and reacting to certain trends because of the interesting contents, entertaining videos, beautiful pictures, and fun memes. However, while they are having fun, they also risk being subjected to online harassment, false information and digital security hacking.
In response to this situation, the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) started a project to promote Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in Cambodia. The project aims to help people gain the most crucial skills in dealing with media problems. Basically, mil enables people to access the media, analyze the contents, create the messages, reflect on existing information and their media habits, and take action with media. As technology continuously progresses, accessing media becomes easier and faster and new media-related questions constantly come up. This is the reason why MIL is continuously evolving and a life-long learning process.”
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