what fake news is doing to digital literacy

What fake news is doing to digital

literacy

Mid 2017

Summing up• From today’s

discussion:

What is digital literacy now?• Media literacy ->information

literacy ->DL

• Technical, social, and personal capacities

• Learners as social, participatory makers

From user to prosumer

Students as IP holders

Storytell ing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6yVCgoBn-I

Where do we go from here?

350.org ->400

We’re so not sustainablePolitical dysfunction

“ unrest

Failure of the elites

Resentment “ “ “

https://www.flickr.com/photos/suxsie_q/27261718274/

Where is this going?

We’re not sustainableWhat happens when these forces combine?

• Environmental stresses trigger political unrest

• Political unrest meets tottering leadership

• Distrust and friction escalate

• Repeat, reiterate: vicious cycle

“The middle of the 20th Century, from here up to about 2070, 2075… it’s old people, in big cities, afraid of the sky.”

-Bruce Sterling, 2014 http://pastebin.com/LYZvU0GL

https://www.flickr.com/photos/77688862@N02/20014884218/

https://www.reddit.com/r/IllBeYourGuide/

Taking automation seriouslyTaking automation seriously

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/23/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-meta/

The Chan Zuckerberg Inititative: Meta

Meta… hopes, by bending artificial intelligence to the task, to identify important papers from the 2m or so produced every year. The firm’s computers have attempted to recognise features of widely cited papers that contributed to their success. Sam Molyneux, Meta’s boss, claims that as a result the firm’s software can now predict the impact of newly published work.

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21719441-alternative-metrics-extend-concept-citation-beyond-journal

New device ecosystemNew device ecosystem

Where is trust now?

• Authority <---> democracy

• The AI option

• Traditional institutions

National Library of Finland

Helsinki University library

http://bryanalexander.orghttp://bryanalexander.org

http://ftte.ushttp://ftte.us

http://twitter.com/bryanalexanderhttp://twitter.com/bryanalexander