Getting Informed on Snapchat

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Audience

Attendees

5-15

Number of facilitators

1

Level

Preparation

45 minutes

Activity

3 hours

Description

Snapchat is one of the most popular social media platform amongst adolescents. However, social media is not only for posting filtered cat pictures, it is also for keeping up to date with news and informing others. Participants will explore Snapchat Discover (a tool suggesting stories published by the media) before putting together an informative story themselves.

Objectives

Online information
Social media
Snapchat
Source verification

Prerequisites for the audience

Knowledge of information sources
Knowledge of online content licensing

Equipment

Computers or tablets
Internet connection
Participants’ smartphones

Content used

Various online news sources
Social media (e.g. Twitter)
News sites (theguardian.com, nytimes.com)
Blogs
Newsletters
News aggregate sites (e.g. Google News)