“We focus on how it is imagined that media and information literacy can respond to the crisis of information in a digital culture permeated by largely invisible algorithmic and information systems. Such an interest implies a focus on searching information and the evaluation of information and information sources.”
“When former welfare societies, as many European nations [and indeed America] were, and their institutions retreat or are made to withdraw, private solutions step into the vacated spaces. The education and training of people to act as consumers in this newly established market can be seen as compensating for the absent state. In this case, literacies become instrumental to meet the needs of the market, often in relation to a personal deficiency that can be addressed through the education and training of individuals.”
- A distinct yet relevant NGO collaboration between Digital Moment, CCUNESCO & UNESCO has also developed a web portal, https://algorithmliteracy.org/, dedicated to informing the public on the related issues of “Artificial Intelligence, Algorithm and Data Literacy,” in the form of access to media, primers, papers and discussion guides covering the increasingly hybrid form and content of global media, information and attention infrastructures.
- For an Information Science perspective on essential distinctions and touchpoints between the terms and manifestations and Information Literacy and Data Literacy, see the following website created by the Pennsylvania Library Association.
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