How to play?:
The aim of the game is to familiarise participants with the relationship between text and image, and with the mechanism of fake news, as images can be misleading if the text source is unreliable. To this end, the session first explores preconceptions about images through free-word association, and then by exploring possible book and film connections. Then, three descriptions are given for interpreting the photographs, two of which, although seemingly correct, are false, and one of which is genuinely related to the photo. The task is for the participants to guess which text belongs to each picture.
Skills improved
The educational tool develops media and information literacy and closely related critical thinking skills in a playful way by simulating the mechanisms of fake news.
Background
The idea for the session came up during a university course focusing on the possibilities of using image archives from different museums and libraries in education. In 2018, the first version of the game was developed, and the first test was carried out at the 4th Vision of Tomorrow Workshop. Afterwards, in May 2019, it was tested at the Nagyatád Photography Club’s stand at the Nagyatádi Retro Fair, and in 2020 at the Nagyatád Culture Coctail event. At the 6th Vision of Tomorrow Workshop, the game was also available in English.
The creators
Zoltán Gergely Kóczián, Master of Library Science, ethnographer, photographer. In 2019, he was awarded the AFIAP for his photographic work. During his university studies, he was co-president of CASSI (2019-2021). He is currently the director of the Bertók László Municipal Library in Nagyatád. His publications are mainly on family history, history of pharmacy and local history, but his research interests also include the history of photography.
