Media Competence of a Modern Student: An Analytical Study

Media competence of young people is one of the basic factors for implementing successful life strategies, effectively using information in professional and personal life, and resisting the processes of public opinion manipulation.In the course of this study, the tasks were set to analyze the skills of working with information in the student environment, determine the dependencies between the level of students' media competence and such variables as the gender of respondents, the status of the university, the profile and level of education.The identified assessments in the target groups of respondents do not have clearly expressed significant differences.Some variational differences (for example, lower assessments of information skills among master's students compared to bachelor's students) can serve as a basis for further research.During the questionnaire survey, it was found that students assess the level of their media competence quite highly for most parameters.An exception is the students' statement about using a narrow range of sources in the process of searching for information, as well as the limited use of information skills during training.The factors that determined these negative trends are the following: dysfunctions of knowledge control, lowered teacher requirements, simplified assignment format, distorted understanding of digital ethics standards.