MEDIA LITERACY AND MANIPULATION
The reports covered global trends and national experience in studying media manipulation and media literacy in an interdisciplinary scientific discourse. Foreign scientists who have been studying the issues of manipulation and media manipulation for many years presented their reports at the conference. The report “What is manipulation?” was presented by scientist Holger Kusse, professor, director of the Institute of Slavic Studies at the Dresden University of Technology (Germany), in which manipulation is revealed as a non-transactional perlocution. Doctor of Philological Sciences, professor, head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics N.I. Lobachevsky of the National Research Nizhny Novgorod State University, Radbil Timur Benyuminovich (Russia) shared the problem of linguistic manipulation of consciousness. Irina Sovetovna Karabulatova, Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages of the Philological Faculty P. Lumumb RUDN, Head of the Center for Digital Humanities Technologies “Russian Language +” of the Institute of Russian Language of Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China, Russia, shared the problems of manipulating public consciousness in the media space. PhD Hu Jiazhun, a scientist from China, spoke on the topic “Communication tactics for avoiding triggers in modern digital diplomacy”. Kenenbaev Erkin, PhD, Associate Professor of the Chirchik State Pedagogical University, a scientist from neighboring Uzbekistan, spoke on the issues of the influence of the Internet on virtual personality. An expert in journalism education and media literacy, PhD in Philosophy, presented a very informative report on the promotion of media literacy in the higher education system, its challenges and solutions. Gulnar Asanbaeva, who has been researching this issue in Kazakhstan for many years, is one of the authors of textbooks on media literacy for schools and universities in the country. In unison, the report “The role of Internet technologies in promoting conspiracy theories (on the example of Central Asian countries)” was presented by Maral Beisetayevna Aitmagambetova, PhD in Philology, regional expert on MIL, participant in UNESCO IITE projects and the MediaCAMP project of the Internews representative office in Kazakhstan.

MEDIA LITERACY AND SCHOOL
The school education system is also actively researching and implementing media literacy promotion programs in practice. Vice-President of the Y. Altynsarin National Academy of Education, Master of Natural Sciences, author of curricula and textbooks, Ruslan Adilkhanovich Karatabanov spoke about the unpacking and implementation of media and information literacy in the content of education in one specific school subject. The seminar also gave an opportunity to teachers and school principals of the city of Shymkent to speak (Sikhambekova Zhanslu Abdrazakovna, director of secondary school No. 30 named after O. Zhandosov, Zhapbarkulova Saltanat Rakhmanberdievna, teacher of Russian language and literature, deputy director for educational work of secondary school No. 17 named after M. Yu. Lermontov, Pesygina Natalya Yuryevna, psychologist of secondary school No. 35 named after Manshuk Mametova). They shared their observations at school about the influence of the media on the personality of a teenager, methods of manipulation among schoolchildren, the problems of cyberbullying and recommendations for combating it.

MEDIA LITERACY AND THE MEDIA
Representatives of the media also took part in the seminar. A report on the importance of reliable information in social networks was made by Maiusova Nurzhamal Abilzhankyzy, Member of the Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan, Head of the Information Analysis Department of the editorial office of the newspaper “Sozak uni”. The topic of a multi-agent approach to the formation, expert markup and classification of the corpus of news texts was presented by Ospanova Ulzhan, Master, Director of the Department of Applied Research and Development of JSC “National Center for Research and Evaluation in Education “Taldau” A. Baitursynova MES RK. This multi-agent approach is one of the main ones in the implementation of this project.

RESULTS OF THE SEMINAR
The seminar was held in a lively atmosphere, those present actively participated in the discussion, demonstrated great scientific interest in the study of media manipulation and the promotion of media literacy in the modern world. All conference participants were awarded certificates. The seminar resulted in a constructive dialogue and exchange of knowledge between all stakeholders and developed recommendations for promoting media literacy in Kazakhstan.