Mil Resources - Media & Information Literacy Lab

Topic

Media & Information

Propaganda & verification

Transparency

Hate speech

Cyber

Personal data & privacy

Content Type

Case Studies

Exercises

Game / Quizzes

Cyber

The aim of the Cybersecurity guide is to give young adults knowledge about cyber threats, including challenges of cyberbullying and help them develop skills of defending against these threats. The guide has a separate chapter on trolls and bots and methods of their identification.

case studies

case study 1. killer game ‘blue whale’

russia is considered the homeland of ‘blue whale’. the game surfaced on the internet in 2013 and activated itself over the course of time. from november 2015 to april 2016 130 teenage suicides cases were recorded across russia.

case study 2. game ‘momo’

in august 2018 it was reported that a new game ‘momo’ surfaced on the internet. ‘momo’s avatar image depicts japanese artist keisuke aisawa’s work ‘mother-bird’.

case study 3. sexting, cyber-stalking, doxing

exercises

exercise 1. situational exercise-discussion: how to protect teenagers from cyber-bullying?

cyberbullying case: 16-year-old mariam received a message on facebook from an unknown boy, 24-year-old gigi. gigi was asking mariam for a date every day for almost a month. finally, mariam reached out and they became friends.

games / quizzes

cyberbullying

the goal of the game is to develop a player’s skills of identifying, preventing and responding to cyberbullying threats.

quack hunter

the game challenges you to distinguish false information from real. you have to catch the duck and read the card.