Civic
Media literacy
A media literacy programme in preparation. It teaches how to check claims in Persian and in other languages.
- Status
- In preparation
- What it offers
- 4
- Courses
- 1
- Country programmes
- 49
Before you begin IDCDC is a peer-to-peer network. It is not a university and acts for no government, party, corporation or faith body.
Courses are written and reviewed by peers. Outlines are drafts until expert review.
How this page handles evidence
Every figure carries its measure, year, source and label. Unknown is shown as unknown.
- Verified
- A label: the item matches its primary record, such as the official table or the Crossref entry.
- Secondary source
- A label: the figure comes from a reliable report about the source, not from the source itself.
- To verify
- A label: the item is listed as found and still needs checking against its source.
Sources
Open scholarly records on this subject, from approved indexes. Listed for reference, not yet reviewed.
- Shahriar Khonsari (2024). The Role of Social Media in the Amplification of Disinformation and Hate Speech against Afghan Refugees in Iran: Challenges and Mitigation Strategies. Preprints.org. DOI 10.20944/preprints202410.0102.v1
- Blake Atwood (2024). Disinformation and the Informal Media Economy in Iran. Journal of cinema and media studies. DOI 10.1353/cj.2024.a952896
- Garajamirli N. (2025). A REVIEW OF AI-POWERED DISINFORMATION STRATEGIES: THE CASES OF RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAN, AND NORTH KOREA. Sciences of Europe. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.16615381
- Benjamin Fernando, Ross Maguire, Brianna Fernandez et al. (2025). The propagation of seismic waves, misinformation, and disinformation from the 2024-10-05 M 4.5 Iran earthquake. Seismica. DOI 10.26443/seismica.v4i1.1512
- Majid Asgari-Bidhendi, Farzane Fakhrian, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli (2020). ParsEL 1.0: Unsupervised Entity Linking in Persian Social Media Texts. arXiv. DOI 10.1109/ikt51791.2020.9345631
01What it offers
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Source checking
How to trace a claim to its origin.
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Images and video
How to check whether an image or video is old, edited or out of context.
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Ownership
How to find who owns an outlet, using the news site’s media register.
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Family workshops
Short sessions for families sharing news in messaging groups.
02Who it is for
- Members
- Families
- Students
- Community workers
03How it works
- Learn
- a person takes the course.
- Practise
- they work through real examples.
- Share
- they use the skills in their own groups.
- Report
- they can report suspect material for review.
04What it always keeps
- Methods, not opinions, are taught.
- Examples come from every side.
- Every claim checked is sourced.
- No outlet is called false without evidence.
05Courses
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Media and information literacy
Outline in preparation.
Wave 2 Planned
06More in Civic
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Rights literacy
Plain guides to human rights systems and the rule of law.
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Civic participation
How to take part in public life in the host country.
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Dialogue across divides
Moderated dialogue between people who disagree, with published rules.
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Newcomer guides
Country guides for newcomers: information and referrals, never legal advice.
Cite this page
- APA
Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Media literacy. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/civic/media-literacy/
- Chicago
Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Media Literacy.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/civic/media-literacy/.
- BibTeX
@misc{idcdc2026_civic_media_literacy, author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}}, year = {2026}, note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0}, title = {Media literacy}, url = {https://iranians.global/civic/media-literacy/}, howpublished = {https://iranians.global/civic/media-literacy/}, }- RIS
TY - ELEC AU - Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council DA - 2026/// PY - 2026 ID - idcdc2026_civic_medi N1 - Licence: CC BY 4.0 TI - Media literacy UR - https://iranians.global/civic/media-literacy/ ER -
07Learn in the Academy
Courses and disciplines of the Academy on the subject of this page.
Courses
- Media and information literacyProposed
- Civic participation in CanadaOutlined
- Civic participation in GermanyOutlined
- Digital safety for familiesOutlined
Disciplines
A completion record shows what was studied and assessed. It is not a certificate or a qualification.
08Research and sources
Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.
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Shahriar Khonsari · 2024 · Preprints.org
PreprintOpenAlexCrossrefOpen accessCC-BY
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Disinformation and the Informal Media Economy in Iran
Blake Atwood · 2024 · Journal of cinema and media studies
ArticleOpenAlexCrossref
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A REVIEW OF AI-POWERED DISINFORMATION STRATEGIES: THE CASES OF RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAN, AND NORTH KOREA
Garajamirli N. · 2025 · Sciences of Europe
ArticleDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0
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Benjamin Fernando, Ross Maguire, Brianna Fernandez et al. · 2025 · Seismica
ArticleDOAJOpen access
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ParsEL 1.0: Unsupervised Entity Linking in Persian Social Media Texts
Majid Asgari-Bidhendi, Farzane Fakhrian, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli · 2020 · arXiv
PreprintarXivOpenAIREOpen access
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Kian Tohidi, Kia Dashtipour, Simone Rebora et al. · 2025 · arXiv
PreprintDataCitearXivOpen access
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Exa-PSD: a new Persian sentiment analysis dataset on Twitter
Seyed Himan Ghaderi, Saeed Sarbazi Azad, Mohammad Mehdi Jaziriyan et al. · 2026 · arXiv
PreprintarXivOpen access
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Хуссейн Пабарджа, Хуссейн Хошгофтар · 2026 · Communications Media Design
ArticleOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY
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Fake News in Times of Conflict: AI-Driven Disinformation during the Israel-Iran Crisis
Georgiana Camelia Stănescu · 2025 · Zenodo
ArticleDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-4.0
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The web of Big Lies: state-sponsored disinformation in Iran
Shahram Akbarzadeh, Amin Naeni, Galib Bashirov et al. · 2024 · Contemporary Politics
ArticleCrossrefCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
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Rohollah Taslimian · 2012 · Unpublished
ArticleDataCite
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Mehran Memari, Mitra Yazdanparast · 2021 · آموزش زبان، ادبیات و زبانشناسی
ArticleDOAJOpen access
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