Alongside immense technological advancements of the last three decades that have all but eliminated limitations of time and geography through satellite broadcasting, the concept of media literacy has developed and expanded to include the educational responsibilities of public media outlets to pursue to achieve general goals of societal awareness and ethical obligations. Media literacy relies on specific standards and a complex arrangement of roles and positions that contribute to educational media processes. And clearly the task of analysing the reality and dismantling it are entrusted to both, the journalist and the educator, as partners in fulfilling the mission of media literacy in order to expose hate speech, the falsity of terrorism and its brutal acts, fostering critical media awareness of the audience.
This guide, titled Enhancing Jordanian media’s ability to combat extremism and terrorism through media training, quality of content, and media performance, forms the basis for media training on combatting extremism and terrorism, and it contains five topics: basic journalism guidelines, media and information literacy, fast-checking tools, covering stories of extremism and terrorism, and hate speech expressions and manifestations.
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