{"id":189155,"date":"2021-02-26T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ai-powered-information-operations-and-new-citizenship\/"},"modified":"2021-02-26T01:00:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T22:00:44","slug":"ai-powered-information-operations-and-new-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ai-powered-information-operations-and-new-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AI-Powered information operations and new citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28a37cc555b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28a37cc555b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ai-powered-information-operations-and-new-citizenship\/#AI-powered_information_ecosystem_and_new_citizenship\" >AI-powered information ecosystem and new citizenship<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ai-powered-information-operations-and-new-citizenship\/#New_citizenship_skills_data_literacy_algorithm_literacy_and_digital_media_literacy\" >New citizenship skills: data literacy, algorithm literacy and digital media literacy<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#AI-Powered information operations and new citizenship<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2018\/03\/robotpresident-796x417.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                                <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital information is power, and today citizens have this new power at their fingertips, channeled through reactions, comments, shares, saves and searches on our everyday digital platforms. However, this new power is ubiquitous and its direct effects remain obfuscated by the AI-powered black boxes of tech giants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, we\u2019re many times too eager to tell Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, or Jack Dorsey how to change their platform policies and algorithms to make the world a better place, but simultaneously failing to answer this:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are our responsibilities as citizens in this new reality in which digital and physical, political and commercial, and private and public are seamlessly interwoven?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, citizens need new skills for understanding the complex and multidimensional power of digital information and its relationship to democratic society.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"AI-powered_information_ecosystem_and_new_citizenship\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI-powered information ecosystem and new citizenship<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trying to be up-to-date on what\u2019s h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening around us is a human condition. Today, everyone is trying to use that condition to catch your attention. And increasingly, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/06\/13\/ai-on-your-lock-screen\/\">AI-powered algorithmic systems decide what kind of information gets through to you<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The way information surfaces on your attention has changed. The way you can consume information has changed. The way you can evaluate information has changed. And the way you can react to information has changed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Controlling information has always been power\u2014or connected to power. Today\u2019s algorithmically amplified information operations are powered on steroids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In today\u2019s world election campaigns spend unprecedented amounts of resources on digital platforms, trying to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2020\/09\/06\/politics\/battlegrounds-campaign-ad-spending\/index.html\">target the right people<\/a> in the right time in the right place. An information operation in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/328656463_Scaling_Social_Movements_Through_Social_Media_The_Case_of_Black_Lives_Matter\">can make millions of people take to the streets<\/a> under the same banner across the globe. Or a social video app of a foreign origin can be used to affect <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/21\/style\/tiktok-trump-rally-tulsa.html\">how people participate unpredictably<\/a> in a local political event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, powerful <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/yalereview.yale.edu\/computational-propaganda\">personalized computational propaganda<\/a> can reach you day and night wherever you are. The people, organizations and machines behind malicious information operations are using, misusing and abusing the current mainstream platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube, to spread radicalizing material across the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a result, the way you can manifest your citizenship online and offline has changed. Through your algorithmic information flows and interfaces you have the power to influence\u2014directly and indirectly\u2014on other people\u2019s opinions and choices, on the polls and on the streets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This fundamental change affects your capacity to use your digital tools and services in an ethical and sustainable way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"New_citizenship_skills_data_literacy_algorithm_literacy_and_digital_media_literacy\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New citizenship skills: data literacy, algorithm literacy and digital media literacy<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No single platform or <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> can alone solve the socio-technological challenges caused by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90549135\/we-can-have-social-media-as-we-know-it-or-we-can-have-democracy\">information operations and computational propaganda<\/a>. Developing methods against digital propaganda requires international multidisciplinary collaboration among tech companies, academia, societal powers, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> media and educational institutions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, to truly get to the bottom of the issue, we need to remember that regardless of the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/12\/15\/europe-lays-out-its-plan-to-reboot-digital-rules-and-tame-tech-giants\/\">huge power of tech giants<\/a> or new regulations affecting social media platforms, individuals do have a crucial role in making our digital platforms safer for everyone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Importantly, new citizenship skills are required for helping people to act more responsibly on digital platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, data literacy and algorithm literacy are needed for understanding the basic qualities and effects of data and algorithms that are constantly at work, influencing directly what you see, think and do online and beyond.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data literacy lets you assess and observe your data trails and their usage in different systems. Algorithmic literacy gives you a basic idea and awareness on how different AI-powered systems personalize your experience, and how the power of algorithms is used to influence your interpretations, expectations and decision-making. These skills also make you more aware of your own (data) rights in digital platforms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Could someone design and develop an engaging tool that would help you in achieving data and algorithm literacy, simultaneously being <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/04\/18\/we-need-algorithmic-angels\/\">as frictionless<\/a> as today\u2019s mainstream social apps?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second, up-to-date digital media literacy allows you to make more sense of your feeds that are a continuously changing algorithmic bricolage of serious and entertaining, fact and fiction, news and marketing as well as disinformation and misinformation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital media literacy enables you to recognize benign and malicious information operations and tell the difference between deliberate spreading of disinformation and unconscious sharing of misinformation. In short, it empowers you to be more thoughtful in reacting to varying information operations that you experience online.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Importantly, more data-aware, algorithm-informed and digital-media-literate users can demand more sustainable and ethical choices from their digital platforms. At the same time, we need a new practice of citizen experience design that brings <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2021\/01\/31\/forget-user-experience-ai-must-focus-on-citizen-experience\/\">citizen-centric thinking<\/a> and values into the very core of AI design and development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s time to start talking more seriously and thoughtfully about the responsibilities of individuals, and the new citizenship skills that are required in today\u2019s social media and tech platforms. In the long run, these new emerging citizenship skills will be crucial for the democratic societies across the globe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\">\n                                    Published February 25, 2021 \u2014 22:00 UTC\n                                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;appId=378011798897423&amp;version=v2.6\" id=\"socialSrcFacebook\" type=\"text\/template\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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