In The Loop, April 2024
8 minutes read | First published: April 23, 2024
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OUR LATEST NEWS 🚀
🤖 A NEW CREATIVE DIGITAL LITERACY INTERVENTION TO ENGAGE TEENS IN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT AI
Everywhere, All the Time' is our new creative, playful digital literacy intervention that equips educators, librarians, and anyone working with youth with resources and methods to foster critical conversations among teens about how technology and AI impact their lives, communities, and the planet. Co-created by Tactical Tech's youth initiative, What the Future Wants, 'Everywhere, All the Time' includes provocative exhibition posters, engaging activity cards, and a detailed educator's guidebook that explore topics such as AI chatbots, the hidden labor behind technology, attention-grabbing designs behind games, and the physical infrastructures that power the internet. Discover 'Everywhere, All the Time' to create spaces that encourage teens to take action and shape the digital world they want to live in.
'Everywhere, All the Time' is produced by Tactical Tech in collaboration with European Schoolnet, International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), Save the Children (Italy) and co-funded by the European Union.
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🗳️ INTRODUCING INFORM: A VOTER LITERACY RESOURCE CENTER THAT PREPARES YOU FOR 2024 ELECTIONS
Get ready for the 2024 election! 'INFORM: A Voter Literacy Resource Center provides playful and reflective workshop curricula, stand-alone activities, and self-guided tools to engage voters in conversations about the role of digital technologies and personal data in shaping democratic participation and elections. Voters, educators, and organizations involved in voter education explore INFORM by Tactical Tech's Influence Industry Project to build your community's political agency now.
🕵️♂️ TOOLS AND TIPS TO INVESTIGATE COMPROMISED WEBSITES: THE LEGACY OF CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA
Cambridge Analytica's website resurfaced in 2023, but something was off. Using OSINT tools, Tactical Tech's team found that an obscure Japanese medication company had taken over Cambridge Analytica's website and repurposed it to generate clicks and drive traffic to their own page. Journalists and investigators, would you like to learn about tools to investigate compromised websites? Explore our new case study, which will walk you through reasons why a website might be compromised and provide you with essential steps and OSINT tools to investigate and verify what and who, is behind the interference.
🌟 20 FELLOWS SELECTED TO JOIN THE 2024 COLLABORATIVE JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP
Exciting news!🎉 In the frame of the Collaborative and Investigative Journalism Initiative, we are happy to announce the selection of 20 fellows for the 2024 Collaborative Journalism Fellowship. From 109 applicants across 25 countries in Europe, a cohort has been chosen to receive training, mentorship, and access to grant opportunities. Find out more.
📰 NEW ARTICLE BY MOZILLA'S RISE25 AWARDS HIGHLIGHTS TACTICAL TECH'S WORK
Last year, our Executive Director and co-founder, Marek Tuszynski, was recognised by Mozilla's Rise 25 Awards as one of the visionary leaders actively shaping a more ethical and responsible future for the internet. Marek Tuszynski chatted with Mozilla about Tactical Tech's work, "his travels abroad shaping his career, what sparks his inspiration and the future challenges we face online". Read Mozilla's piece.
🌍 THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE CRITICAL CHANGE LAB: EMPOWERING YOUTH TO ENVISION ALTERNATIVE FUTURES FOR DEMOCRACY
The Critical Change Lab project creates a flexible model for democratic pedagogy in and through learning environments. Check out the latest news:
🗣️ YOUTH VOICES AND THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY. Check this interview with Christy Lange, Tactical Tech's Programme Director, about the Critical Change Lab project and the importance of giving youth the space to express their voices.
🤝 MEETING THE CRITICAL CHANGELAB YOUTH ASSEMBLY. Critical ChangeLab includes a Youth Assembly of 10 members between the ages of 18-24 who will offer guidance, recommendations, and feedback on project matters, including evaluation of proposed approaches and research agendas. Learn more.
OPEN CALLS 📢
[JOB OPPORTUNITY 💼] APPLY TO BE TACTICAL TECH'S COMPLIANCE AND ADMINISTRATION MANAGER. DEADLINE: APRIL 30TH, 2024
Do you have experience in dealing with compliance and administration tasks and knowledge of German law? Are you a Native-level German speaker? Then this opportunity is for you! Apply to join our team. Apply.
[ONLINE COURSE 🎓] OPEN ONLINE COURSE ON DIGITAL LITERACY FOR EDUCATORS. STARTING DATE: MAY 6TH, 2024
Calling primary and secondary school teachers! Enrol in this course that will empower you to become an informed and innovative advocate and facilitator of media literacy, supporting young people to understand opportunities and challenges around topics such as algorithms, large language models (LLMs) and their relationships with technology. The course will also explore the ‘cost’ of the internet in terms of environmental impact and human labour. Register here for this European Schoolnet MOOC. Enrol here.
[CALL FOR PROPOSALS ✍️] START YOUR JOURNEY TO RIGHTSCON 2025. DEADLINE: JUNE 2ND, 2024
Each edition of RightsCon convenes business leaders, policymakers, general counsels, government representatives, technologists, academics, journalists, and human rights advocates worldwide to tackle pressing issues at the intersection of human rights and technology. Submit your session proposal here.
[CALL FOR PITCHES 📝] TELLING STORIES OF MOVEMENTS FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY. DEADLINE: MAY 1ST, 2024
The Democracy Playbook is a global cross-border collaborative project highlighting the successful strategies movements and communities have employed to fight for democracy. The story of movements fighting for democracy is often told in terms of how they disturb public order, stop traffic, or otherwise interfere with society's “normal” functioning. But what if they were reported on as part of a global trend and as a continuing story, as opposed to the wave of authoritarianism? Check this Unbias the News project.
[SURVEY 📊] HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION DEAL WITH MIS AND DISINFORMATION? DEADLINE: APRIL 26TH, 2024
DISARM is an open framework for those cooperating in the fight against disinformation. The Disarm Foundation is asking for participants in a survey about how organisations use and process research, analysis and reporting on Foreign Influence and Manipulative Interference (FIMI), including mis- and disinformation. The information provided will support developing a roadmap for improving DISARM over the next three years. Take survey.
EVENTS THAT EMPOWER YOU 💡
[ONLINE EVENT 🧘] MENTAL HEALTH IN JOURNALISM SUMMIT. OCTOBER 8TH - 10, 2024
Mental health has become one of the most critical challenges for media professionals worldwide. Burnout, anxiety, PTSD and vicarious trauma are on the rise. The Mental Health in Journalism Summit will be an inspiring arena to reflect on our profession, share good practices for mental health, and nurture a global movement that prioritizes a healthy work culture in the media sector. The program will feature sessions in English and Spanish. Register.
[CONFERENCE 🌐] NR24 NETZWERK RECHERCHE ANNUAL CONFERENCE. HAMBURG, GERMANY. JULY 19TH - 20TH, 2024
Join one of the largest annual journalists' conferences in Germany. Early ticket purchase is recommended. Reserve your spot.
[CONFERENCE 💻] SCICAR CONFERENCE. DORTMUND, GERMANY. SEPTEMBER 27TH - 28TH, 2024
SciCAR brings together data, journalists and scientists to initiate collaborations in Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) and promote the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, methods and projects. Find out more.
MEET OUR PARTNERS WORLDWIDE 💫
INTERNET BOLIVIA: PROMOTING THE CRITICAL USE OF TECHNOLOGY FROM A HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE AMONG YOUTH
Since 2019, InternetBolivia.org has been at the forefront of digital literacy and rights advocacy. In 2022, this organization presented the Intercultural Digital Inclusion Framework, a tool for young people (13-20 years old) in Bolivia to contribute to developing digital skills from a critical, reflective, intercultural and gender perspective. Teaming up with The Glass Room, Internet Bolivia trains educators and students on digital privacy and wellbeing. Find out more about our partner's initiatives.
Want to know more about the fantastic work of our partners worldwide? Visit our impact stories section on our website.
WHAT WE ARE READING 🔍
- [📰 ARTICLE] Uncommon OSINT: Obsidian, Semantic Meaning and NLP. By Claudia Tietze. Find out more
- [📚 CHILDRENS BOOK] A detetive Chapeuzinho está investigando o caso de uma sombra que perdeu seu corpo. By Sabichinho. Go to source
- [📝 BLOG] AI isn't useless. But is it worth it? - AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm. By Molly White. Go to source
- [📝 LIST] Dark Visitors - A List of Known AI Agents on the Internet. Insight into the hidden ecosystem of autonomous chatbots and data scrapers crawling across the web. Protect your website from unwanted AI agent access. Go to source
- [📰 ARTICLE] We Need To Rewild The Internet - The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists. Go to source
- [📊 TRACKER] 2024 AI Election Tracker monitoring how AI is being used to influence elections around the world. By Rest Of The World. Go to source
- [🎙️ INTERVIEW] Yuk Hui: “We are living in a gigantic technological system”. The Hongkongese philosopher advises deepening our technological imagination outside the confines of the capitalist hegemony and colonialism. By Victor G. García Castañeda. Go to source
- [📰 ARTICLE] Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber - The head of Threads and Mastodon competitor Bluesky on why she thinks decentralization is the way forward in a post-Twitter internet. By Nilay Patel. Go to source
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