The Position of Having the Right to Teach Media Literacy in Controlling the Power of the Government

Document Type : Original Research

Authors
N. Rastegaran 1
A. Farzaneh 2
R. Rahimi 3
M. sheighMovahed 4
1 PhD. Student in Public law, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran.
2 Assistant Prof., Department of Jurisprudence and Principles of Islamic Law, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran.
3 Department of Public Law, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran.
4 Assistant Prof., Department of Public Law, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran.
Abstract
Introduction


Media literacy leads to public rights discourse. The discourse of public law is effective in monitoring the government through the qualitative and quantitative expansion of the demanding element. People are more persistent in insisting on the rights they are sure they have the right to have. In all societies, the interested people with the power of influence in the field of media turn society into an unequal campaign. The way to deal with this is to expand the right to media literacy. In addition, in advertisements that aim to show reality and distort it deliberately and biasedly, if the audience does not have enough knowledge and is deprived of many sources to benefit from information, it will not result in a distortion of reality or an inorganic change of public opinion. The action of the government in promoting media literacy, in addition to fulfilling one of the human rights, is a smart action that is effective in the field of public participation. If citizens benefit from the right to media literacy, we are faced with a controlling power that relies on collective wisdom. The present article is trying to find a universal solution through theory in order to have a micro-oriented government by relying on the processing citizens.


Methodology


The method of carrying out library research is analytical-descriptive. In this regard, in order to answer the questions and test the assumptions, the method of content analysis has been used.


The information has been collected by the library method and by extracting vouchers from reliable sources. After collecting information and laws in the fields of freedom of expression, freedom of information, media rights, public opinion and the right to education, the issue has been analyzed. In order to benefit from the role of interactive media, attention has been paid to the recent laws of the parliament and the amount of use of keywords related to those laws in the virtual space before they were approved in the public forum of the parliament. The findings indicate the approval of some recent laws based on public opinion, especially regarding the country's annual budget. The statistical population considered for the research is the Islamic Republic of Iran. Although, the ideas of researchers from other countries and other legal systems have also been used,


Results and discussion







Media literacy guarantees the exchange of correct information and rational media filtering by using public wisdom. Media literacy significantly reduces the level of political indifference, a crisis facing modern society. The level of sudden arousal of motions by the media is less observed in societies that have a favorable level of media literacy. In addition to monitoring the government's power, increasing media literacy will increase the psychological security of society. The prerequisites for mastering the skill of selection are awareness and freedom. Strengthening and understanding the world







of life by guaranteeing fundamental rights lead to the evolutionary evaluation of justice by citizens. The supervisory function of interactive media plays a critical role in increasing responsibility and accountability in various social fields.


The regulatory role of the media is directly related to the recognition and guarantee of the public domain. The government is obliged to protect the public domain. The exchange of information in the public sphere is considered a part of the new freedoms and the continuation of the right to freedom of expression. People are trying to achieve mutual understanding in their interactions, and the active and interpretive presence of elites in the public domain plays a key role in promoting media literacy. In interactive media, where it is possible to benefit from collective wisdom through public opinion, and in social media, where content is produced by the public, it finds symmetry with Habermas' concept of the world of life. The active presence of citizens in the public domain requires guaranteeing freedom of expression and the right to access information. In this regard, changes in the laws related to the right to teach media literacy are inevitable.


Conclusions


In the modern government, with the development and growth of the media, the need for media literacy has become an inseparable part of the lives of the citizens of the modern government. The government is obliged to continuously review the laws and regulations in line with media innovations and create the evolutionary course of society through deregulation and policymaking based on needs. The power of cognition, the power of judgment, and data analysis are the fundamental foundations of media literacy education. Media literacy provides the power of understanding, the power of judgment, and the possibility of participating in collective discussions. In modern government, media literacy is the most important platform for the formation of the public sphere. By improving media literacy, the level of conscious participation improves. The public pays more attention to public domain issues.


Operational solution: knowing the laws related to the theoretical field and making demands is based on the principle of the rule of law.







In the laws and regulations of the Islamic Republic of Iran—the second paragraph of the third article, the third paragraph of the forty-third article of the Constitution, Article 26 and Clause 8 of Article 8 of the Civil Service Management Law—all of them have implicitly mentioned the need to promote media literacy as one of the duties of governance.

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Political Organizing of Space
Volume 5, Issue 4 - Serial Number 20
December 2023
Pages 501-509