what fake news is doing to digital literacy
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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?
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