<p>Media is a big part of our society and plays a major role in the socialization of young people. It sets the agenda for what’s important and newsworthy. In media coverage today crime and violence occupies a lot of the space. The evening press like Aftonbladet, Expressen and GT often use crime to sell their papers. The purpose of this study is to see what impact these crime reports have on high school students and how the education in the subject civic studiescould be designed from this point of view. In order to examine the reactions from the students concerning crime reports in the media I have applied the following questions: What does students state about their reaction to the crime reports in the evening papers? Which opinion do students have on media studies in civic studies? How can the media education be outlinedto meet the students needs? To answer the questions above I have conducted interviews with students and asked them what they think about evening papers and media in general. I started each interview by letting the student read an article from the evening paper Aftonbladet and then we discussed how heor she reacted to the article. It was a typical crime article from the evening papers which contained many of the ingredients that they usually have. Media professor Peter Dahlgren claims that crime articles in the evening papers follow a specific pattern that enables the reader to feel familiar with the contents of the text. During the interviews I also asked the students how they thought that the media education in civic studies should be conducted. The students had different opinions about the evening press. Some of them thought that it israther good and that they especially like the crime reports. Other students didn’t like those papers as much and thought that they were full of lies and exaggerations. The crime reports´ impact on the students however was pretty clear and some of them explained how this affected their everyday life. They all agreed that media education is important and that they wanted to learn more so they can interpret media in a way that enables them to tell what’s trueand what’s not.Key words: Evening papers, Media and Media education</p>

Media is a big part of our society and plays a major role in the socialization of young people. It sets the agenda for what’s important and newsworthy. In media coverage today crime and violence occupies a lot of the space. The evening press like Aftonbladet, Expressen and GT often use crime to sell their papers. The purpose of this study is to see what impact these crime reports have on high school students and how the education in the subject civic studiescould be designed from this point of view. In order to examine the reactions from the students concerning crime reports in the media I have applied the following questions: What does students state about their reaction to the crime reports in the evening papers? Which opinion do students have on media studies in civic studies? How can the media education be outlinedto meet the students needs? To answer the questions above I have conducted interviews with students and asked them what they think about evening papers and media in general. I started each interview by letting the student read an article from the evening paper Aftonbladet and then we discussed how heor she reacted to the article. It was a typical crime article from the evening papers which contained many of the ingredients that they usually have. Media professor Peter Dahlgren claims that crime articles in the evening papers follow a specific pattern that enables the reader to feel familiar with the contents of the text. During the interviews I also asked the students how they thought that the media education in civic studies should be conducted. The students had different opinions about the evening press. Some of them thought that it israther good and that they especially like the crime reports. Other students didn’t like those papers as much and thought that they were full of lies and exaggerations. The crime reports´ impact on the students however was pretty clear and some of them explained how this affected their everyday life. They all agreed that media education is important and that they wanted to learn more so they can interpret media in a way that enables them to tell what’s trueand what’s not.Key words: Evening papers, Media and Media education

This thesis outlines the current state of adult media literacy and education in the Czech Republic. It defines basic concepts, present and historical approaches of media literacy and its anchoring in the Czech legal order and international documents. It further focuses on current phenomena of media world and selected media institutions involved in media literacy development. The analytical part compares and evaluates Pan-European and Czech research aimed at measuring the level of media literacy of adults. Key words media literacy, media education, media, adult education, longlife learning, civic education

The aim of this diploma thesis, which is entitled "Media education in Czech lessons in secondary schools", is to map out the current state of integration of a cross-sectional theme named Media Education into the Czech lessons of all kinds of high schools in the Czech Republic. The educational process is seen from the perspectives of all its participants. The thesis should bring the list of excerpted scientific texts and research dealing with the object of our interest. And it also aims to describe the interfaces of both educational subjects which emerge from the requirements for the students. The research part is aimed at providing the informations about the particular signs of media education in the obligatory school subject of Czech lessons as well as the success of this effort to increase media literacy by the high school students. This information should be collected by a content analyses of school curricular documents, interviews and questionnaires of both sides of the educational process.The work also brings an analyses of teaching materials represented by Czech lesson textbooks, which are evaluated according to the integration of our cross-sectional theme and its possibilities. The output of this thesis is the suggestion of our own didactic instrument, the didactic test.

Dass E-Learning eine zeitgemäße Erweiterung des Methoden- und Lehrangebotes von Hochschulen ist [1], wird durch dessen rasante Verbreitung im Studienalltag deutlich. Der technologische Wandel [2] sowie gestiegene Anforderungen an Studienangebote seitens der potenziellen Studierenden haben den E-Learning-Einsatz an Hochschulen begünstigt aber ebenso zu enormen Veränderungen innerhalb des Hochschulwesens geführt. Diese veränderte Perspektive auf die Funktion, aber auch die Aufgaben der Hochschule wird in der internationalen Literatur seit geraumer Zeit thematisiert [3, 4] und hat jetzt auch den sächsischen Hochschulraum1 erreicht. Hier wurden in den vergangenen Jahren an den sächsischen Hochschulen die infrastrukturellen Voraussetzungen für den E-Learning-Einsatz – in Form von technischen Systemen und Unterstützungs-angeboten – geschaffen [5, 6]. Eine weitere Tendenz der Hochschulentwicklung ist die zunehmende Bedeutung der wissenschaftlichen Weiterbildung im Kontext des lebenslangen Lernens, ausgelöst durch veränderte wirtschaftliche und demographische Rahmenbedingungen, die stetig sinkende Halbwertzeit des Wissens und steigende Anforderungen von Unternehmen an hochqualifizierte, akademische Fachkräfte [7]. (...)