Data protection media prize goes to female students at HTW Chur
The first Data Protection Media Prize awarded by the Professional Association of Data Protection Officers in Germany goes to three students from the University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur. They received the award for a video that draws young people's attention to the dangers of self-presentation on social media.
The Media Award (DAME) of the Professional Association of Data Protection Officers in Germany (BvD), endowed with 3000 euros, was presented to three students of the Multimedia Production (MMP) bachelor's degree program at HTW Chur on April 25, 2018 in Berlin. After the students, Leslie Iseli (Ettingen, BL), Monica Oliveira (Lüchingen, SG) and Natalia Rasstrigina (Schaffhausen, SH), had already won third place in the Zurich Data Protection Officer's YouTube competition in 2017, they were once again honored in Germany.
The prize was awarded for a video in which young people address young people and draw attention to the dangers of self-expression on social media. The jury chose the clip "Social Engineering" "because it touches the viewer emotionally, makes them think and at the same time offers a solution for possible spying on internet and movement data." "Projects like this, which we were able to work on as part of our studies, are excellent preparation for the upcoming career entry as a multimedia producer," says Monica Oliveira, one of the successful students, delightedly.
This successful contribution was created in the Corporate Communication specialization of the Multimedia Production bachelor's degree course under the direction of Professor Ines Jansky. On behalf of the organizations Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) and Swissmem, complex technical topics were to be told to young people in emotional stories in a realistic and sensitizing way. To achieve this, the students received interdisciplinary support from various specialist lecturers. The project was also embedded in a Gebert Rüf Stiftung-funded research project at the Institute for Multimedia Production (IMP) at HTW Chur entitled sciencEmotion. Various experiments are being carried out there to investigate how young people use video in relation to technical topics. "I'm really pleased that the students were able to incorporate the results of the current study directly into the design of their videos. They succeeded so well in putting themselves in the emotional world of the target group," says Ines Jansky about the technical support for the project.
