Media competence in future teachers’ training at modern universities

Abstract

There has been considered an urgent need for the development of media education, one of the main objectives of which is to prevent human vulnerability to media violence and media manipulation, escape from reality into the virtual world of mazes, dissemination of media dependencies. Media education is a part of the educational process aimed at creating a society of media culture, preparing the individual for a safe and efficient interaction with modern media, including traditional (print, radio, cinema, television) and new (computer mediated communication, Internet, mobile telephony) media with the development of information and communication technologies.