Basic knowledge of media competence

Media play a central role in everyday life across all social classes and generations. Traditional and digital media are addressed. Communication processes and ways of interacting have changed. Everyday school life, the years of teaching and studying and everyday working life have all been transformed by digitalization.Topics are discussed, networking takes place and the flood of information requires media skills. It is necessary to differentiate between important and false information as well as backgrounds and interests. Digitalization has differentiated new aspects. Challenges therefore arise for politics, families and educational areas with media use in their responsibility. Media are becoming increasingly important as factors of social participation and areas for cohesion in democracy. The structure of the study is based on the authors’ personal interests in the context of political education and biographical elements.