Informational, Digital, News Literacy (study of level of medialiteracy among the students of Higher School of Eeconomics)
News literacy is one of the most actual and unknown in Russia trends in modern media education. Developing from the concepts of M. McLuhan, H. Innis and N. Postman, news literacy has many scholars studying this topic in terms of Russian situation. The following article discusses the results of a research, which was conducted by High School of Economics among students of different faculties. It was dedicated to the dynamics of student’s media literacy skills before and after they study the course of news literacy. The key results of the survey show that the level of media literacy raised after the course dramatically: this has been demonstrated through the amount of students who answered the questions about the trust to various media resources, students who began to prefer look for information from different sources, etc.