Image Credit: Snippet – Wissenschaft und Frieden, 2018(1), p. 44-45.
Svenja Boberg, Tim Schatto-Eckrodt (both working in the PropStop Project) and Lena Frischlich published an article about Fabricated News and the impact of such news on one’s political attitude. The full article can be read in the printed issue of Wissenschaft und Frieden 1/2018. A German-language abstract you will find HERE.
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The “media competency framework North Rhine-Westphalia” is an instrument to foster media competency in manifold formal and non-formal educational contexts. It serves as reference frame for the implementation of firm requirements in future curricula. In addition, the media competency framework NRW can trigger important processes of school- and lesson development as he allows for the implementation and improvement of internal media concepts (see Medienpass NRW for a German description).
On march, 2nd 2018, Dr. Lena Frischlich and Dr. Christian Grimme hosted two workshops on “Manipulation on the Internet: (Media)education between Fake Accounts, Social Bots and Propaganda” at the huge mediapassport conference in Essen, Germany. There they presented relevant insights from the work of DemoRESILdigital and the PropStop project for educational practitioners. The German handout for the workshop can be downloaded HERE.
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Our colleagues Dennis Assenmacher and Lena Adam will present their paper in which they question whether it is sufficient do detect social bots at the Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Las Vegas this summer.