DIS-PLAY

Social media of today are flourishing with fake news, political propaganda, fabricated / manipulated / sponsored content, deep fakes and other types of disinformation that are still emerging following technological progress. The youth of today live in the world of diverse social media, densely saturated with disinformation. Particularly when consuming information on social media, they require Media Literacy skills to be able to tell what they can trust.

Combating Social Media Disinformation among Youth through Live Action Role Play (“DIS-PLAY”) (2021-2-SE02-KA220-YOU-000051481 ) is a 2 year (2022-2024) Erasmus+ project, run by European partner educational institutions from Germany, Romania, Spain, and Sweden.

The project aims at pedagogically equipping youth educators with methods and tools for increasing Media Literacy skills of youth to ultimately reduce disinformation on social media.

Provided youth educators with a live action role play with scenarios that develop youth’s Media Literacy.

Supplied youth educators with a guide on how to educate youth on disinformation.

Developed a mobile game for young people 15-25, where a player faces simulating reality social media disinformation cases and needs to make choices to enhance their Media Literacy.

Objectives

Project Results

What is educational LARP?

LARP SCENARIOS ON DISINFORMATION
The key result of the project, representing the solution that provides youth educators with the quality training materials and corresponds to the new Gen Z learning style of today’s young people. Our larp is packaged as a youth educator toolkit that contains 5 scenarios on spotting and tackling disinformation on the internet. Using DIS-PLAY Toolkit, you as a youth educator will have a resource you need to implement learning activities with young people to increase their Media Literacy skills of confronting disinformation on social media.

Why use it to adress online disinformation?

GUIDE ON ORGANISING DISINFORMATION LARPS
The Guide is intended to establish a bridge between the worlds of education and civil and digital societies. It is a turn-key solution for fostering young people’s Media Literacy to combat social media disinformation. The Guide can support youth educators in setting up courses or study circles on disinformation, containing recommendations on the format and implementation of such courses. The Guide introduces youth educators to the Gen Z learning style, the pedagogical method of larp, and how to run it correctly.

How can I use DIS-PLAY?

DISINFORMATION MOBILE GAME
You can (soon) download our animated scenario-based app for smartphones! In the game you will face simulating reality disinformation cases and will have to make the right choicenot to lose and proceed with the game scenario. If you are a youth educator, you can use the game to facilitate practical application of the Media Literacy knowledge, acquired by your young learners within any disinformation on social media course or study circle.

Download the LARP
Scenarios Download the
Background Article Download the App

Activities

This transnational Training Activity, which took place in Frankfurt in October 2022, plays a crucial role in the development process, pursuing 3 goals:

To train partner youth workers in the project approach (based on the draft of the Project Result 2 - THE GUIDE FOR ORGANISING LARP) and get their initial feedback for further development.

To test the developed larp scenarios with participating in the Training Activity young people from the partner countries in order to demonstrate the youth workers how larp works in practice, as well as to get their and participants’ initial feedback.

To prepare the youth workers for the actual pilot testing activities that they will run further in the project.

Denis Riabov, project manager denis.riabov@studieframjandet.se

Rocío García, project coordinator rociogarcia@inerciadigital.com

Qla Zetterberg qla@lajvverkstaden.se

Jakob Ohage jakob@ohage.com

Emilia Radu / Luminita luminita.ene@monomyths.ro