In The Loop, January 2024
5 minutes read | First published: January 25, 2024
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💡 TOP CREATIVE FORMATS TO SHARE YOUR INVESTIGATION FINDINGS
From opera and slam poetry to puppet theatre and circus, many journalists and investigators are experimenting with new ways to share the results of their investigations, reach a wider public and create impact. What creative formats can journalists and investigators use to reach more audiences? Discover new approaches to telling an investigative story or showcasing data and findings by reading the article "Find Your Way: Creative Approaches To Sharing Investigation Findings" by Ricardo Ginés: Read here.
🍸 WAIT NO MORE TO HOST YOUR OWN DATA DETOX BAR!
The cocktails 'Persuasive Ponch' and 'Clever Clicker' are on the menu in this bar. We are talking about the Data Detox Bar, a meeting point in exhibitions and events for visitors to take control of their data privacy, digital security, and online well-being. The Data Detox Bar invites visitors to discuss digital topics in an analogue space, creating a unique experience. Do you want to host your own bar? Contact us at datadetox@tacticaltech.org. More Information
🗳️ NEW SERIES OF ARTICLES ON DIGITAL CAMPAIGNS IN THE 2024 INDIAN ELECTION
As general elections approach in India, over 600 million people will head to the polls. In light of this, Tactical Tech's 'The Influence Industry Project' launched the "2024 Indian elections Series": three case studies highlighting critical aspects of digital campaigns and the influence industry across the country.
🌟 OUR EXPOSING THE INVISIBLE PROJECT IS IN THE SPOTLIGHT!
The Communication Initiative, a platform that uses communication and social change strategies to advance communities, published a summary of 'Exposing the Invisible - The Kit', a collaborative, self-learning resource that makes investigative techniques and tools used by experienced investigators accessible to journalists, investigators and people and communities who want to start their own investigations.Take a look and explore here.
OPEN CALLS 📢
🔊 THE “EXPOSING THE INVISIBLE” ONLINE INVESTIGATION TALKS SERIES IS HERE
Start the year off right with this series of online talks and become a master in an investigation by learning new methods and tools.Reserve your spot here.
- ➡️ The Anatomy of ‘The Pylos Shipwreck’ Investigation with Iliana Papangeli and Stavros Malichudis, January 30, 15:00 CET Reserve your spot.
- ➡️ How to Investigate Online Disinformation Networks with Nicola Bruno, February 2, 10:00 CET Reserve your spot
- ➡️ Troubled waters: Investigating How Intensive Agriculture Pollutes Our Waters with Jelena Prtoric, February 6, 10:00 CET Reserve your spot
- ➡️ Mixing Methods to Investigate the Influence Industry in Elections Campaigns with Amber Macintyre, February 12, 10:00 CET Reserve your spot
EVENTS THAT EMPOWER YOU ✨
✨ THE GLASS ROOM MISINFORMATION EDITION AT THE COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA. UNTIL DECEMBER 15, 2023
This exhibition explores Misinformation, why it is shared, how it spreads and how we, individual users, participate in the process through our many clicks, likes and shares. Find out more.
✨ SHIFTING AI CONTROVERSIES – PROMPTS, PROVOCATIONS & PROBLEMATISATIONS FOR SOCIETY-CENTERED AI. BERLIN. JANUARY 29 & 30, 2024
Are we currently having the public controversies on AI that we should have, or is AI panic derailing us from actual and relevant concerns? How do we get to the controversies that we need and to the exploration and articulation of society-centered AI? These are some of the questions that will be covered at the conference organised by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the ZeMKI, University of Bremen, in cooperation with the research group 'Politics of Digitalization' at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). Marek Tuszynski, Tactical Tech's Executive Director, will participate in the Closing plenary panel "Where do we go from here?" together with Alison Powell from the London School of Economics and Regine Paul from the University of Bergen. Find out more
MEET OUR PARTNERS WORLDWIDE 💫
🌟 RADIO TOSEPAN LIMAKXTUM: FACILITATING CRITICAL DISCUSSIONS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY WITH THE MASEWAL COMMUNITY IN MEXICO
Radio Tosepan Limakxtum is a Masewal community radio station that involves the Nawat, Tutunaku, and Mestizo territories in Mexico, which are part of the Union of Cooperatives Tosepan Titataniske. Through their offerings, they promote community values by creating their own content, listening and responding to the needs of the communities, and promoting the way of life as Indigenous people.Read their story
WHAT WE ARE READING 🔍
- [📰 ARTICLE] OpenAI Quietly Scrapped a Promise to Disclose Key Documents to the Public. By Paresh Dave. Explore here.
- [📰 ARTICLE] From silence to symbols: How Thais are employing language in new ways towards freedom of expression. Read here.
- [📝 ESSAY] Our language, our world - Linguistic relativity holds that your worldview is structured by the language you speak. Is it true? History shines a light. By James McElvenny. Go to source.
- [🔍 REPORT] World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2024. Go to source.
- [📰 ARTICLE] These six questions will dictate the future of generative AI - Generative AI took the world by storm in 2023. Its future—and ours—will be shaped by what we do next. By Will Douglas Heaven. Go to source.
- [📰 ARTICLE] The Myth of Social Media and Populism - Why the moral panic is misplaced. By Jan-Werner Müller. Go to source.
- [🔍 REPORT] Global Temperature Report for 2023 by Berkeley Earth. Go to source.
- [📰 ARTICLE] OPENAI quietly deletes ban in using chatgpt for military and warfare. By Sam Biddle. Go to source.
- [📰 ARTICLE] How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same. Go to source.
- [🎙️ DATA VISUALISATION] Humans Are Biased. Generative AI Is Even Worse. By Leonardo Nicoletti and Dina Bass Go to source.
- [📰 MULTIMEDIA] Google shapes everything on the web. By The Verge. Go to source.
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