Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to deliver a lecture for Rural Youth Europe’s Study Session 2026 in Budapest, organised in cooperation with the Council of Europe and the European Youth Center Budapest under the title “From Scroll to Action: Media Literacy for Rural Youth Empowerment”. The week-long programme brought together 25 young people from rural communities across Council of Europe member states to strengthen their media literacy skills and democratic engagement.
My session, “From Misinformation/Disinformation to Policy & Political Communications”, was designed as a 90-minute lecture followed by a 60-minute case-study workshop. The aim was to look more seriously at how communication works as a field of power: how political actors, media institutions, digital platforms and citizens compete to shape what becomes visible, credible and influential in the public debate arena. Using the experience of ROSA.gr as a case study, I tried to show how communication works in real life.
According to the post-class evaluation, participants rated the usefulness of the topics covered at 8.48/10 on average. The overall class rating and lecture clarity both stood at 7.30/10, the pace at 7.74/10, and confidence in understanding the relationship between media, political communication, propaganda and journalism at 7.52/10.
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