STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF INFORMATION AND MEDIA LITERACY OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS

Abstract

The article determines that future specialists should master the skills of search, critical understanding, analysis of information resources and their effective use in professional activities, as well as skills of working with modern media. Therefore, the problem of formation of infomedial literacy of applicants for higher education is extremely relevant. As established, scientists express different points of view on the structure and content of infomedical literacy. In this regard, the study of the above problem involves clarifying the author's position on the outlined issue. The purpose of the article is to determine the author's point of view on the structure and content of infomedial literacy of applicants for higher education based on the analysis of scientific literature. In particular, according to the UNESCO concept, infomedia literacy combines three interrelated blocks of competencies: information literacy, media literacy, and digital (technological) literacy. One source identifies the following components of a person's media literacy: critical thinking skills; the ability to work with toxic content; the ability to identify a person's own stereotypes; the ability to work competently with visual sources and perform visualization; the ability to search for and verify information. On the basis of taking into account the points of view of various scientists, it is determined that the infomedical literacy of applicants for education includes the following structural components: cognitive (the availability of knowledge about information and media, methods of educational and professional work with them); emotional and value (perception of information and, in particular, media resources as a personal value, the presence of appropriate motives and the need to improve information media knowledge and skills); operational and activity-based activity (the formation of skills necessary for the search, analysis, interpretation of information from various sources, in particular media resources, the creation and dissemination of new information, including media content).