Parenthèses - PFE

How can we provide media literacy training for retirees?

You can follow the project on its Instagram page.

The internet can be considered the technological achievement of the century, along with the recent arrival of AI, for a multitude of reasons: means of communication, multiple forms of entertainment, technological advances in many fields—this technological evolution has changed many of our habits. First and foremost, the way we get our news.

Television, once considered the primary source for staying connected to current events, is losing ground to information intermediaries and digital media: the arrival of social networks has turned everything upside down, too much so, to the point that the abuses already prevalent in traditional media have worsened or evolved: crisis of confidence, misinformation, the arrival of generative AI, sensationalism, etc. Coupled with budgetary issues, it is becoming increasingly difficult to stay well informed on social media (X and Facebook come to mind in particular).

In this context, journalists have implemented new measures, particularly to resolve the crisis of confidence. Programs dedicated to fact-checking, interviews, and local reporting are needed to reconnect with the public. But this is far from enough. It was also necessary to prevent all abuses in digital media. Thus, EMI, Media and Information Literacy, was born.

However, EMI mainly specializes in schools and universities, particularly with CLEMI. There is almost nothing available for other audiences, especially retirees, who are increasingly seeking information online but share seven times more fake news than other audiences (source here).

So what can be done? It was with my PFE, which became a full-time project, that I wanted to develop Parenthèses, an EMI project dedicated to retirees, with EMI journalists, which allows me to promote EMI on a local scale to raise awareness and enable them to reconnect with current affairs on these digital media.

This project is now being monitored by the Pays de la Loire Pépites Program.