The transition to full online teaching format has posed a number of challenges of journalism higher education. The goal of this research is to show Georgian journalism teachers’ attitudes towards online learning during the covid-19 pandemic. To reach this goal and explore this issue a social constructivism framework is used. The main research questions: How effective is this process? What are the strengths and weakness of full online learning? What opportunities of the development are arisen? This study is based on the qualitative approach and a semi-structured interviews method is used for this research. The interviews (n=17) were conducted among journalism professors, different Georgian media schools. This study was carried out from 20 June till 20 October 2021. According to the results of this study, there are a lot of challenges facing during the full remote classes but nevertheless there are a number of development opportunities. At the end of the research the author suggests certain recommendations for media schools.
Spreading fake news and disinformation is one of the global challenges over the last years. It is a challenge for Georgia too. This acute problem was also current at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, when a number of misinformation appear in the social media as well as in the traditional media, regarding the origin and spread of the coronavirus, especially in Facebook which is the most popular social network in Georgia. A lot of fake news was spread and is still being spread in the post-pandemic period too. The Goal of this research paper is to explore the attitudes of Georgian Facebook users, specifically what kind of fake news and disinformation they met about Coronavirus in social media, how to identify them, how much they tried to verify them, how to explain their spread, how to fight them, etc. In order to explore this issue a social constructivism framework is used. As for the main research method, this study is based on the qualitative approach. For this purpose, the method of in-depth interviews - with Georgian active internet users – has been conducted. The respondents are doctors, journalists as well as representatives of different academic fields, who possess media literacy skills.
The goal of this paper is to study what the role of Honorary Consulate of Georgia in Wroclaw in the Georgia’s Euro Integration processes is. This is the only honorary consulate of Georgia in Poland, which was established in 2019. Research Question: What the role of Honorary Consulate in Wroclaw during the Georgia’s Euro Integration processes is, how actively it promotes and strengthens relationship between two countries. Research hypothesis: The Honorary Consulate plays an active role in promoting and strengthening relations between Georgia and Poland. The research object is an official Facebook page of Honorary Consulate in Georgia. The content analysis is used for the research as a main method, as well as a method of semi-structured interviews, in order to study attitudes of the Georgian diaspora in Poland, towards the role of Consulate. 14 semi-structured interviews were conducted among Georgian citizens who live in Poland. 3 face-to-face interviews were taken in Wroclaw in December 2021 and 11 online interviews from January 20 till March 20, 2022.
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