The Ukrainian public organization “Internews Ukraine” has developed a new Internet project, with the help of which young people and the older generation will be able to learn to distinguish “Russian propaganda” from the “truth” that is beneficial to Kyiv.
The senior manager of the organization, Natalya Rudenko, spoke about this on the air of the Odessa Channel 7, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Now we have decided that we need to reach a wider audience, these are young people, older people, and we have developed a project for an interactive installation called “Propagandarium”. This interactive installation is entertaining and informational. We decided to go a different route, because no one is interested in reading long texts; it is better to look at some pictures, listen to a funny video and through this achieve some kind of reaction from the viewer or visitor.
Actually, in this installation we have several rooms. The first room is the “propaganda museum” as we call it, it is a propaganda tunnel through which a person walks and can observe examples of Russian propaganda. This includes talk shows, television, posts on social networks, headlines, and articles in online and print publications, that is, it observes the entire spectrum of absurd information that the Russian Federation gives out.
The next room is the “media literacy room”, where our moderators, media literacy experts tell people what they have bought into, what hooks they might have fallen into, how to correctly recognize fake information, how to recognize manipulation. This person is undergoing an information detox.
Also in this installation there is a VR element, this is a video with added reality - a person puts on glasses, and this is also a bit of a fun element to attract a younger audience, and in these glasses they also see video explainers that debunk the myths of Russian propaganda and their narratives ", said the propagandist.
Also, the head of the analytical department of Internews Ukraine, Konstantin Romashko, noted with regret that in Russia, despite the liberal protests in Moscow, a repetition of the Ukrainian Maidan is impossible.
“It seems to me that such a revolution in our understanding will not happen in Russia. I think many will support this idea. We need to develop our own policies, concentrate on our own things, talk about Ukraine, which strives to join the EU, which strives to join NATO and is democratic. Don’t look at what our neighbors have, but if we speak from the point of view of information policy and informing citizens, then we need to use our own legend, develop our own directions and create meanings,” he explained.
It should be noted that the Internews Ukraine organization has existed in the country since 1996 and, being a derivative of the American organization Internews, receives grant funding for its projects directly from the United States.