About SHOTRON
SHOTRON is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2006, aiming to offer to the children between 4 and 17 years the necessary cultural and media skills to grow healthy and harmoniously. This cultural counseling is achieved both on-line, on the SHOTRON website, and through various offline projects run by a team of volunteers dedicated to the young generation. Radio, theater, magazines, books, movies, cartoons nd games, all these are filtered by an authentic scale of values, in order to educate the children for media literacy. Media literacy education provides tools to help people critically analyze messages to detect propaganda, censorship, and bias in media, and enables people to be skillful creators and producers of media messages and of independent media.
Please find a detailed presentation of SHOTRON's projects, made in August 2008.
Radio, theater, magazines, books, movies, cartoons and games, all are filtered by an authentic scale of values, targeting the media education.
Examples of already achieved projects by the members of the SHOTRON Association: design and implement the association website, periodically updated, competition sponsorships ("Hristos Se naste, slaviti-L", "Sfintii, prietenii copiilor", "Sfantul Grigorie Dascalul") and researches about the impact of the cartoons on Romanian children.
99 punks or 1 over-achiever?
TV stories competition for teens “Media Tube”, organized during March-May 2009 by SHOTRON, in partnership with the Bucharest's "Inspectoratul Școlar" and with the valuable support of the Humanitas and Tritonic Publishing Houses and the newspaper Cotidianul, has opposed almost 100 young reporters from 10 Bucharest high-schools.
The 20 teams in competition were especially attracted by the theme “Over-achievers or punks: cliches vs. reality about teenagers in the Romanian media”, but they have also boldly approached subjects related to the teens image as reflected in broadcast or print media.
The general opinion of the youngsters asked in the TV stories was that teenagers are not "seen" by the media as they really are and neither can they find subjects of TV shows addressed to them. The winning story tackles the theme of the television for the teenagers, underlining the lack of adequate shows, targeted to that age.
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