The Manifesto contains Intentions and Beliefs of Youth Workers and Youngsters regarding Media and Media Literacy:

01. Media is images, sounds and text 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 lives.

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
- chooses what media to use, see, hear in daily life
- uses media creatively to express ideas and share information, in an accountable respectful way
- participate in society using media
- uses media to promote and claim human rights for himself/herself and others

08. We understand media as 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

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