Identification and ranking of strategies to improve students' media literacy in Afsari Ajah University in dealing with cognitive warfare

In today's era,in order to accurately understand the media and stay away from the harms of the digital world and the onslaught of media messages,having media literacy is very necessary and important for the officials of every country at the society level.One of the harms that may be caused by the media,virtual space and social networks is affecting people's cognition and way of thinking. The current research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive method with a mixed approach. The statistical population of this research in the qualitative stage is library documents and interviews with11experts in cognitive warfare and media literacy.In the quantitative stage,a targeted sample size of 140 experts and professors of media literacy and cognitive warfare of Aja officer universities and other parts of the organization was estimated,and the sample size was determined to be 103 people to answer the questionnaire using Morgan's table.MAXQDA software was used to categorize and analyze the data obtained from interviews with experts and documents and documents,and SPSS and Excel software were used to analyze and analyze quantitative data, and one-sample t-test was used to measure the research hypothesis. The result of this research shows that by considering the three dimensions of knowledge structures,media skills and personal decision-making center under13components and 63 executive strategies which are ranked respectively,it is possible to improve students' media literacy in the officer universities of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army.Upgraded in such a way that they can perform properly in the face of cognitive warfare