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This paper is based on official statistics, interviews with media experts, and content analysis of Kyrgyz-language news sites. This paper explores the country's mediascape, discusses the problems in Kyrgyz-language online media, and advances some recommendations for addressing these issues.

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This paper focuses on the Kyrgyz language online media in Kyrgyz Republic. The Kyrgyz language mass media is considered to be biased, immature and non-professional, therefore limiting the opportunity to receive high-quality news material in native language. Although some media outlets strive to produce high-standard journalistic materials, their content is not visible enough and is dominated by tabloid style press. This presentation studies the structural factors explaining the challenges of the Kyrgyz-language press, mostly related to educational background and financial status of journalists. Kyrgyz language mass media could be improved by working with two groups of people: working journalists and journalism faculties, which need to be equipped with up-to-date knowledge, skills and labs. In order to communicate with wider academic scholarship, the paper is based on official statistics, content analysis of Kyrgyz news sites, interviews with media experts both local and international.

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Game teaching methods are always attractive and accessible to the audience, especially for young people. Therefore, the use of game tasks allows you to make complex material understandable. The author suggests using several types of game tasks.

The first group of games is held in teams of 5-6 people who compete with each other in order to interestingly cover various topics: how to distinguish facts from opinions, develop critical thinking, know what fakes are, how to distinguish information, propaganda and advertising, how to write text to make it more interesting for the reader.

The second group of games includes 10 creative game methods of teaching media literacy: using several sources (creating a poster or a map), measuring tone and language (creating icons), using numbers and numbers (creating infographics), understanding images (examples of image and text inconsistencies), development of multimedia skills (text, audio, video, augmented reality and 3D printing), recognition of bias (sources - articles, blog posts, excerpts from books, speeches, podcasts, radio or television programs, posters, commercials, scientific taty, videos on Youtube or short films), etc.

The third group of games is computer games. They are posted on the Internet and allow the learner to independently perform media literacy tasks. The author introduces computer games that are offered by coaches of Ukraine - Mediasnayko http://www.aup.com.ua/Game/, Stopfake.org, Armenia http://mediainitiatives.am/, Belarus http: //Mediakritika.by, Moldova Georgia http://mdfgeorgia.ge/, https://www.mythdetector.ge/ka. These are high-quality computer games that connect game tasks on media literacy with the folklore of each country, create familiar characters, with whom you can learn in an exciting form of media literacy.

In Kazakhstan, the transformational game MEDIAJUNGLE has also been created, this is a lotto game: in this game, the one who determines who is faster, where the fake news comes up, and where the real one is is won. The game was invented during Edyuton on media literacy. Now in Kazakhstan there is a large program to disseminate media literacy ideas like "Three Points", etc.

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The paper studies the state of media literacy in contemporary Turkmenistan. It focuses on how media literacy understood and practiced in the Turkmen higher educational institutions. The study demonstrates what tools and agenda of media literacy are provided for future communication professionals in the suppressed media environment.

Competing numerous media literacy definitions are formulated in globalized context. Therefore, this paper uses the basic context formulated by the U.S. based National Association for Media Literacy Education that reads "the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act using all forms of communication". It is arguable that there may be a contradictory phenomenon between the traditional Turkmen media control strategies imposed by the political powers and the core principles of the media literacy that educate people to be critical thinkers.

The empirical data collection is based on the analysis of the curriculum designed for the students of journalism at the Turkmen Universities. Additionally, survey questions were created to organize online dialogue with a few Turkmen language users. Parallel to the above mentioned approach the study attempts to use the arts-based research practice, which covers using images, scenes and sounds of the TV reports. This method may allow ensuring authenticity and truthfulness of the research findings.

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This study aims to integrate Digital and Media Literacy to the Curriculum of Higher Education Institutions (Universities) in Kyrgyzstan. Digital and Media literacy is important for every student in the information and social media age where students are overwhelmed with fake news and disinformation. Every student should be able to discern facts from fakes, information from opinion and possess such skills as fact checking and advanced searching for data and analyzing the data. In the age of big data, open data, meta data and open sources it is easy to find any data, interpret, analyze and use these data in research and investigations. Students who are digital and media literate should be able to do all above mentioned with data. Digital netizens as we call the current generation should know what is cyber security, cyber bullying, netiquette, surveillance, privacy issues in social media and also be not only content user but also content creator by producing their own content and sharing it. The aim of this study is to integrate Digital Literacy and Media Literacy Courses into the existing Curriculum of 55 Universities in Kyrgyzstan as a part of General Education Discipline for first year students.