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Media literacy

Kurdish news reaches people through many outlets, many with owners and interests. Media literacy helps readers ask who is speaking and why.

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What it offers
4
Courses
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Country programmes
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Before you begin The Kurdish Cooperation Organization is a federation of communities that learn from one another. It is not a university, claims no public authority and serves no government, party or faith body.Contested subjectSafety

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  • Contested subject This subject is contested. Every side is shown with its sources, and nothing here endorses a position.
  • Safety Safety guidance here is general. Your risk depends on who you are and where you are. Protected participation explains how members are protected. Protected participation

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Sources

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  1. Idrees Mohammed, Hossein Hassani (2025). Mining Mental Health Signals: A Comparative Study of Four Machine Learning Methods for Depression Detection from Social Media Posts in Sorani Kurdish. arXiv.
  2. Ari M. Saeed, Shnya R. Hussein, Chro M. Ali et al. (2022). Medical Dataset Classification for Kurdish Short Text over Social Media. arXiv. DOI 10.48550/arxiv.2204.09660
  3. Fanar Rofoo, Shareef M. Shareef, Polla Fattah (2025). Kurdish Social Media Opinions. Mendeley Data. DOI 10.17632/495h8779p6.1
  4. Rawezh Kamran Ahmad*1, Ismail Haji Zalmi1, Neaz Naif Mustafa2, Mohammed Satar Saeed3, Hataw Hussein1 (2025). Navigating the Path to Europe: How Social Media Shapes Irregular Migration Decisions Among Kurdish Youth. International Journal of Scientific Research and Technology. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.15716378
  5. Sohrab Ahmadian (2024). Kurdish Diaspora in Japan: Navigating Kurdish Identity and Activism on Social Media. Springer Nature Singapore. DOI 10.1007/978-981-97-2867-1_10

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Perspectives and disputes

Contested subjects show every side with sources. Nothing here endorses a position.

A map of the main positions, each with its own sources, is in preparation.

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01What it offers

  • 01

    Source checks

    How to find out who owns an outlet and how it is funded.

  • 02

    Images and video

    How to check whether an image is old, edited or from elsewhere.

  • 03

    Across languages

    How to compare a story in Kurdish varieties, Arabic, Persian, Turkish and host languages.

  • 04

    Digital safety

    How families can protect accounts and devices.

02Who it is for

  • Readers of every age
  • Parents
  • Students
  • Community Cell leads

03How it works

Learn
take the media literacy course.
Practise
use the checks on stories you read.
Compare
read the same story in several outlets.
Report
send doubtful items to the news verification desk.

04What it always keeps

  • No outlet is called true or false as a whole
  • Methods are taught, not opinions
  • Examples come from every side
  • No tracking of readers

05Courses

  • Media and information literacy · Foundations

    Media and information literacy

    Outline in preparation.

    Wave 2 Planned

  • Information security · Foundations

    Digital safety for families

    Practical steps for Kurdish families who may be watched, phished or pressured, here or in the homeland.

    Wave 1 · 8 h Outline drafted

  • Kurdish diaspora studies · Scholar

    Kurdish media in exile

    Outline in preparation.

    Wave 3 Planned

06More in Civic

  • In preparation

    Rights literacy

    Plain-language learning on human rights systems and the rule of law.

  • In preparation

    Civic participation

    Taking part in public life where you live, country by country.

  • In preparation

    Dialogue

    Moderated dialogue across divides, including between Kurdish communities, dialects and faiths.

  • In preparation

    Newcomer guides

    Plain guides to asylum, residence and public services in host countries, with referrals.

  • In preparation

    Statelessness and documents

    Information on civil documents and statelessness for Kurds who lack papers.

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APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Media literacy. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/civic/media-literacy/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Media Literacy.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/civic/media-literacy/.

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	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Media literacy},
	url = {https://kurds.global/civic/media-literacy/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/civic/media-literacy/},
}

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07Learn in the Academy

Courses and disciplines of the Academy on the subject of this page.

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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.

  1. Mining Mental Health Signals: A Comparative Study of Four Machine Learning Methods for Depression Detection from Social Media Posts in Sorani Kurdish

    Idrees Mohammed, Hossein Hassani · 2025 · arXiv

    PreprintarXivOpen access

  2. Medical Dataset Classification for Kurdish Short Text over Social Media

    Ari M. Saeed, Shnya R. Hussein, Chro M. Ali et al. · 2022 · arXiv

    ArticleDataCitearXivDOAJOpen accessCC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

  3. Kurdish Social Media Opinions

    Fanar Rofoo, Shareef M. Shareef, Polla Fattah · 2025 · Mendeley Data

    DatasetDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  4. Navigating the Path to Europe: How Social Media Shapes Irregular Migration Decisions Among Kurdish Youth

    Rawezh Kamran Ahmad*1, Ismail Haji Zalmi1, Neaz Naif Mustafa2, Mohammed Satar Saeed3, Hataw Hussein1 · 2025 · International Journal of Scientific Research and Technology

    ArticleZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  5. Kurdish Diaspora in Japan: Navigating Kurdish Identity and Activism on Social Media

    Sohrab Ahmadian · 2024 · Springer Nature Singapore

    ArticleOpenAIREOpen access

  6. Role of the Public Relations Service in Shaping the Media Content Strategy of the Kurdish Media Corporation "Rudaw"

    Kaka Mohammed Omer Kaka · 2020 · Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  7. The Role of Female Journalists in the Kurdish media – the Historical Research about the Journalist’s Female of Erbil

    Saman Jalal Mawlood · 2022 · Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  8. Ethical Ideologies and Professional Cultures in Transitional Societies: An Examination of Media Practices within Iraqi Kurdish Journalism

    Shwan Adam Aivas · 2026 · Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  9. Kurdish Media: From Print to Facebook

    Jaffer Sheyholislami · 2011 · Kurdish Identity, Discourse, and New Media

    ChapterCrossref

  10. Kurdish Identity, Discourse, and New Media

    Jaffer Sheyholislami · 2011 · Palgrave Macmillan US

    BookCrossrefOpenAIRE

  11. Kurdish Social Media Sentiment Dataset: Insights on Misyar Marriage

    Sarkhel karim · 2024 · Mendeley Data

    DatasetDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  12. Reflecting of the Iraqi Kurdish referendum in the media (Content Analysis of BBC News, Al Jazeera, IRNA and Radawoo)

    fateme noorirad, zahra hakimi · 2018 · مطالعات رسانه‌های نوین

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

Sources, licences and fetch dates: arXiv (Metadata CC0 1.0; papers under their own licences), 2026-10-23; Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DataCite (CC0 1.0 (DataCite metadata)), 2026-10-23; DOAJ (Metadata CC0 1.0 (DOAJ); articles under their own open licences), 2026-10-23; OpenAIRE (CC BY 4.0 (OpenAIRE Graph)), 2026-10-23; Zenodo (Metadata CC0 1.0; each record under its own licence), 2026-10-23.

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