Arcom partners Press and Media Week in Schools (SPME) 2025, to identify and understand the news.

Published on 21 March 2025

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    Arcom is a partner of the Centre pour l'éducation aux médias et à l'information (CLEMI) for Press and Media Week in Schools (SPME), March 24-29, 2025.

    The 36th Press and Media Week in Schools(SPME), of which the French regulatory authority for audiovisual and digital communication, Arcom, is once again a partner, aims tohelp students, from kindergarten to high school, understand and decipher the world of the media, learn to verify sources and information, develop a taste for current affairs and forge their identity as citizens.

    The theme of this year's event is"Where's the news?", a theme that invites joint reflection on the need to distinguish between information and entertainment, but also to avoid the dead ends of false information.

    Below is the official poster for Press and Media Week in Schools 2025:

    Affiche de la Semaine de la presse et des médias dans l'école 2025.

    Explanation and deciphering of the poster.

     

    Arcom conference on digital citizenship

    In the presence of Bénédicte Lesage, member of Arcom and chair of the "Media education, ecological transition and public health" working group, the Authority organized a conference on Thursday March 27, on the theme:

    "Artificial intelligence and information reliability: building trust".

    The event brought together media professionals and supervisors, and provided an opportunity to better understand the impact of artificial intelligence on information, and to decipher the challenges involved.

    Watch the Arcom conference below, subtitled and translated into French Sign Language (French Sign Language).

    Focus on artificial intelligence and information

    AI and information: challenges and tools for informed use

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    Speeches by Arcom members

    Martin Ajdari, President of Arcom

    Martin Ajdari, President of Arcom, speaks :

    • Tuesday April 8, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., at Arcom headquarters, to CELSA Master 2 Media, Innovation & Creation students.

    Rencontre entre le président de l'Arcom, Martin Ajdari, et les étudiants du CELSA, mardi 8 avril 2025. © Arcom

    Bénédicte Lesage, Arcom consultant

    Bénédicte Lesage, member of Arcom, speaks :

    • Friday March 28, at 12pm, in Paris, at the Lycée Rocroy Saint-Vincent de Paul, for senior high school students.

    Benoît Loutrel, Arcom consultant

    Benoît Loutrel, member of Arcom, speaks :

    • Monday March 24, from 1:30 pm to 3 pm, at the Lycée Gaston Berger in Paris, for high school students in the STG final year and BTS droit students.

    Antoine Boilley, Arcom consultant

    Arcom member Antoine Boilley speaks:

    • Monday March 24, in Paris, to two classes at Lycée Hélène Boucher, specializing in history-geography, geopolitics and political science.

    Laurence Pécaut-Rivolier, Arcom consultant

    Laurence Pécaut-Rivolier, member of Arcom, speaks :

    • Monday March 24, from 9:10 to 10:10 a.m., at the Lycée Sainte-Jeanne Elisabeth in Paris, for a class of second-year students.

    For the 2025 edition, Arcom welcomes to its headquarters:

    • Monday March 24, BTS audiovisuel students from the Lycée Suger in Saint-Denis: presentation of Arcom and "freedom of expression and its limits".
    • Tuesday March 25, 2 classes of 4th graders from a secondary school in Rouen: presentation of Arcom and "freedom of expression and its limits".
    • Friday March 28, a seminar organized by the Direction du numérique pour l'éducation.

    Arcom alsotakes part in

    • Tuesday March 4, from 1:30 to 4:30 pm with 22 pupils from a CM2 class at Marie Curie elementary school in Saint Germain en Laye (78): Arcom presentation, freedom of expression and cyberbullying.
    • Thursday March 6, from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm in front of 25 pupils from a CM2 class at Marie Curie elementary school in Saint Germain en Laye (78): presentation of Arcom, freedom of expression and cyberbullying.
    • Thursday March 13, from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm before 30 pupils from a CM1 class at Anatole France elementary school in Beynes (78): presentation of Arcom, freedom of expression and the construction of information.
    • Tuesday, March 25, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. to 35 CM2 pupils from Beynes school (78)
    • Wednesday March 26, in Guingamp, to students from various secondary schools: "plurality and honesty of information in the media" and "freedom of expression and its limits".

    Arcom's regional media education initiatives

    Arcom Bordeaux

    • Meeting on Tuesday March 25 between Arcom Bordeaux and the Rector of the Académie de Bordeaux.
    • Meeting, on Wednesday March 26, of those involved in media literacy, information literacy and digital citizenship, as part of the day organized by Atelier Canopé 47 in Agen.
    Arcom Bordeaux

    Arcom Clermont-Ferrand

    • Presentation, on Tuesday March 25, of Arcom's missions and activities to several high school classes.
    • Presentation, Thursday March 27, of Arcom's missions and activities to several high school classes.
    Arcom Clermont-Ferrand

    Arcom Toulouse

    • Signing of a partnership agreement between FR3 Occitanie and the Toulouse education authority on Monday March 24.
    • Arcom Toulouse webinar for teachers, Tuesday March 25, on the challenges of representation in the media, in particular the representation of women in the audiovisual media.
    • Teacher training on freedom of expression, Wednesday March 26, in Toulouse.
    • Participation by Arcom Toulouse, on Thursday March 27, in a public mock trial on the theme "The court of social networks".
    Arcom Toulouse

    Arcom Lille

    • Workshop on Saturday May 17 with hospitalized children on the theme of protecting youngsters.
    Arcom Lille

    Arcom Lyon

    • Arcom Lyon spoke to secondary school students in Aubenas on Tuesday March 25, in the presence of the Grenoble education authority's media and information education officer.
    Arcom Lyon

    Arcom educational tools and resources

    Les bandes dessinées de l'Arcom. © Arcom

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    Arcom's missions

    Arcom studies

    Arcom study on the French and information.

    Study on the French and information.

    Nearly 3,400 French people were questioned about their relationship with information.

    94% say they keep themselves informed.

    Television remains the primary means of accessing information.

    80% of French people watch it for information at least once a week, and 66% every day.

    53% of French people get their information every day from social networks or video platforms, but only 11% do so exclusively.

    Active use of social networks increases susceptibility to conspiracy theories. 60% of French people subscribe to at least one conspiracy theory. 55% of social network users fear being exposed to infomercials. 53% of French people prefer their information to be selected by journalists, rather than by algorithms.

    Not all French people trust the media. 1 in 2 French people always or often doubt the reliability of information shown by the media. What are the reasons for this doubt? "The risk of pressure from political and economic powers.

    The French maintain high expectations of journalists.

    97% expect journalists to detect fake news and fight agains its spread.

    Artificial intelligence and information reliability

    On Monday, October 14, 2024, Arcom organized conferences and round-table discussions on the uses and impacts of artificial intelligence in audiovisual and digital communication.

    All the discussions and conferences are available below:

    Arcom brings together experts on the impact of artificial intelligence in the fields of creation and information

    Presentation of the conclusions of the Arcom mission on the impact of artificial intelligence in the fields of creation and information.

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    Where's the news?" poster explanation and deciphering

    Omar Haj Kadour/AFP

    The photo above, taken on July 20, 2020 and chosen by CLEMI for the Press and Media Week in Schools 2025 campaign, shows comet Neowise (C/2020 F3) in the sky above destroyed buildings in the Syrian town of Ariha, in the rebel-held province of Idlib in the northwest of the country.

    This shot, taken by press photographer Omar Haj Kadour in July 2020 in Syria, illustrates the question:

    Where's the news?

    At first glance, the photo shows a night landscape of ruins caused by the violence of the fights. On closer inspection, the starry sky reveals the comet Neowise.

    Is this a war photograph or an astronomical one?

    What is the main information in this image?

    Analysis of this photograph leads to a number of reflections on its ambivalence, between aesthetic quality and dramatic actuality, the time of day of the conflict and the timelessness of astronomical phenomena, the triviality of destruction and the immensity of space.

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    This project offers an educational pathway that involves high-school students using a smartphone to create collective documentary films around an imposed theme.

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