On International Children’s Day, IJC released the puppet show “A click of fangs or the Manipulative Wolf”

The show “A click of fangs or the Manipulative Wolf” is a first for the media space of Moldova, and it has been created in the form of an educational and entertaining story that aims to help young media consumers understand and correctly analyze information from virtual sources.

The show is aimed at kindergarten children as well as primary school students, helping them understand how the online environment works and encouraging them to analyze what they have seen or heard, especially on social networks. In the nearest future, the show will reach kindergartens, where it will be watched by the youngest media consumers. Beginning in the fall, the show will also be available for the primary school students who study the Media Education optional course.

Specifically, young viewers will watch a story in which the wolf named Woolfy and the boar named Hoofy try to manipulate netizens. In the end, however, the characters urge their friends and followers to “be honest and always discover the truth.”

Before the release of the show, Nadine Gogu, the executive director of the IJC, said that “through this show we set out to get closer to preschool and primary school children, who represent a rather vulnerable age group.”
“They are exposed daily to media messages, whether via television, radio, the Internet or books, the content of which in many cases is inappropriate for their age. That is why they need to be helped to understand that the information they hear or see is created by someone for various purposes and that they should not blindly believe everything they see on the screens of televisions or laptops/mobile phones. We hope that the show will help them in the process of getting knowledge and understanding, combining entertaining elements with cognitive ones,” said Nadine Gogu.

“We brought to the viewers a subject that is both important and painful. We live in the age of technologies, which we learn to discover and know with all its good and bad sides. Sometimes it is difficult to cope with the information that floods us day by day and remain in a clear, correct, and healthy informational space. All this poses an even greater danger when it affects children. They are the ones who failed to see the lies, falsehoods, and betrayal. I hope that this show in video format will reach all the children of our country because the children from Chisinau will very soon have the opportunity to watch it on the stage of the Guguţă Theater,” said Gabriela Lungu, the artistic director of the theatre.