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MEDIA LITERACY AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE
Strategies, Debates and Good Practices
and their doubts. As the sessions progressed one could observe these women
building their confidence, leaving behind their fears and shame to deal with
issues such as abuse and poverty. From a position of victim one could notice
how some, in recent games, had claimed the courage to face difficulties without
the need to have a man to sustain them.
7. Conclusions
Today, thanks to information and media technologies it is possible, to get the
message out from and to other areas of society. The existence of a macrorelease
process, promoting an overall change in the social structure gives
women new opportunities to promote their ideas and slowly decrease the
discrimination that so far women have had to live. This awareness helps women
to open up to new discourse and deal with questions that bring about a change
in attitude towards their abilities and role in relation to social change.
While there is still a lot of work to be done since this attitude is rooted in their
personality, we recognize that this experience has given them the opportunity to
think and rethink positions and conventions. They have felt valued by the
reflection group and have felt the importance of their work in society.
Through the sharing of personal experiences they have felt less alone and
through the recognition of their achievements they have strengthened their selfesteem.
They have dared to recount their stories, denounce injustice, laugh at
themselves, mourn, surf the net and see a bit of the world.
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