Political Awareness:
“The senators introducing legislation in this package have decided not to wait on an advisory body to make recommendations and instead are taking the ‘goat’ by the horns and starting the conversation in the elected body closest to the citizens: the Legislature,” said former State Sen. Laura Ebke, Senior Policy Fellow at the Platte Institute.
“By being politically aware. That means aware of the different sides and different angles. It means identifying and separating trends towards truthfulness from trends towards fantasy. It means identifying trends of those seeking to empower the people from those of empowering the government and elites. It means doing these things soberly and wisely in conspicuous sight of others.
You promote political awareness in other, by promoting it in yourself. And this cannot be done effectively without separating actual news from propaganda. Learn to spot the difference — and the trends of where each seems to be proliferating the most.” – Griz Ley
“Emotions neither prove nor disprove facts. There was a time when any
rational adult understood this. But years of dumbed-down education and emphasis on how people ‘feel’ have left too many people unable to see through this media gimmick.” – Thomas Sowell
“When a target person appears to be high in social self-awareness – that is, the person seems to accurately know what others think of them – observers infer that the target’s actions are more intentional because the target is acting while seeming to know what others think of their actions. Because perceived intent is the key input to trust judgments, perceived self-awareness impacts observers’ trust toward the target but does so differently depending on whether the target behaves in ways that positively or negatively impact others. When the target behaves in positive ways, exhibiting high (relative to low) self-awareness should increase trust as the positive behaviors will be interpreted as conveying stronger positive intentions toward others. However, for negative behaviors, exhibiting self-awareness should decrease trust, as it should convey stronger negative intent toward others. “ – Kristina Wald and Shereen Chaudhry, “Ignorance can be trustworthy: The effect of social self-awareness on trust.”
“Self-awareness, though often considered a desirable quality, does not universally increase others’ trust.” – Kristina Wald and Shereen Chaudhry, “Ignorance can be trustworthy: The effect of social self-awareness on trust.”
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” – George Orwell
“All power comes from the people. But where does it goes?” – Bertolt Brecht
“Resentment leads humans slowly to poison their own soul.” – Max Scheler
“Is at first honey, at the end, poison” – the Mahabharata, “To receive from Kings”
“Give me that which I want, you shall have this which you want” – Adam Smith
“Gift exchange but turned out to be a form of Economic Contract” – Marcel Mauss
“A man’s Self is the sum total of all that he CAN call his” – William James
“[E]verything mingles here” – Marcel Mauss, “The Gift”
“Grass roots collaborative solutions are so often the best.” – Michael Skok
Media Literacy:
“Don’t React to Headlines; Respond to History” – Robert Ginsburg
“[w]e don’t suffer these days from any lack of communication, but rather from all the forces making us say things when we’ve nothing much to say,” – Gilles Deleuze’
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” – Upton Sinclair, “I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked”
Journalists hate to think about the commercial activities of their employer and have traditionally considered it a moral and ethical duty to be totally ignorant of newspaper economics. ” – Scott Reinardy
“In today’s world, with social media, pundits, and a lot of division in the country, it’s getting harder and harder to take that central route.” – Avigail Lev, Psy.D.
“We’re bombarded with so much information from all sides and this overwhelming amount of different information can actually condition us to be more easily swayed by the peripheral route.” – Avigail Lev, Psy.D.
“A media environment that is designed to elicit strong feelings of presence, then, should try to create the illusion of a non mediated spatial environment or social entity and to get the users emotionally and cognitively involved in order to make them want to continue and intensify the experience” – Christoph Klimmt and Peter Vorderer, “Media Psychology ‘is not yet there’”
“We no longer have those principled and informed arguments. The foundational knowledge of the average American is now so low that it has crashed through the floor of “uninformed,” passed “misinformed” on the way down, and is now plummeting to “aggressively wrong.” People don’t just believe dumb things; they actively resist further learning rather than let go of those beliefs.” – Retired Professor Thomas M. Nichols
“To know what kind of information we’re getting; new media platforms, for instance, level the playing field, making it difficult to distinguish facts from opinions or speculations.” – Tom Nichols, Author of “The Death Of Expertise”
“Leaders need experts to educate and advise them, that journalists must inform rather than entertain, and that voters have a duty to question and learn, not merely assert and argue.” – Retired Professor Tom Nichols, the U.S. Naval War College
“Power in the network society is not top-down… it is multidirectional, and it is often exercised horizontally” – Manuel Castells
“Objectivity became the guiding ideal of American journalism in the 20th century, not just as a set of techniques, but as a moral principle” – Michael Schudson
“Personalization creates a kind of invisible algorithmic editing of the web… You don’t decide what gets in – and more importantly, you don’t really see what gets edited out” – Eli Pariser, “The Filter Bubble”
“Human beings are storytellers and that all forms of human communication that appeal to our reason are best understood as stories” – Walter Fisher
“Gatekeeping is not simply about selection; it is about constructing reality” – Pamela Shoemaker
“Atomized individuals exposed to mass-produced messages, with limited capacity to react or shape content” – Jay Blumler
“If old media drove culture from the top down, new media is increasingly fostering culture from the bottom up” – Henry Jenkins
“False news diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth in all categories of information on social media” – Soroush Vosoughi
“When people with shared views cluster together, they often end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk” – Cass Sunstein
“To frame is to select some aspects of a perceived reality and make them more salient in a communicating text, in such a way as to promote a particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation” – Robert Entman, “Framing Theory”
“Affective publics, organized around shared sentiments rather than reasoned debate” – Zizi Papacharissi
“Social media isn’t a revolution in political communication, it’s a revolution in the scale and speed of coordination, but this coordination can be used for both constructive and destructive purposes.” – Clay Shirky, Political Scientist
“Journalism is not dying, but it is changing profoundly. The challenge is to adapt its core values to a new era” – Emily Bell, Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism
AI Election – AI Ballot
AI can be used to make everything faster, and not necessarily in a malicious way,” – Anthony J. DeMattee, Data scientist
“Data science can influence politics in any direction,” – Rajiv Garg, associate professor at Goizueta Business School
“What is different is the ease, convenience, velocity and volume of political propaganda that can be created by AI,” – Ifeoma Ajunwa
“Algorithms let machines learn from the world. Complex neural networks are the algorithms that power today’s mimicry of human behavior, Campaigns are getting smarter, using those same techniques to convince voters their candidate is the best, get out the vote for their candidate and, now, trying to ensure the people they don’t want to vote don’t show up.” – Joe Sutherland, director of Emory’s Center for AI Learning
“They could use the consumer database and even harvest everyone’s social media data, They now knew a surprising amount about you, like if you owned a Camry or a pickup truck, how much you just spent on Etsy or whether you had recently suffered a knee injury and searched for remedies on Google.” – Joe Sutherland, director of Emory’s Center for AI Learning
“We can now get to the point where it’s true one-on-one targeting,” – David Schweidel, an expert in AI and social media analytics
“Before, that would have been cost-prohibitive. Both the Democrats and the Republicans have spent millions of dollars building out their voter databases. But now they need more and different data. It’s no longer just the issues you care about, it’s how you communicate. What are your brand preferences? Social media information gets pulled in. It’s not just your political profile, it’s your broader consumer profile. Because, at the end of the day, I’m trying to sell you something.” – David Schweidel, an expert in AI and social media analytics
“Our whole existence is mapped onto an algorithm, If I can get a personal phone call from the president of the United States, anything can be hyper-personalized.” – Rajiv Garg, associate professor at Goizueta Business School
“The technology is moving fast, but I don’t think we should be fatalistic about what direction it will take, What we tend to overlook is that the technology will develop the way we allow it to. The government has a role, as does the tech industry, to think about how these tools impact society.” – Ifeoma Ajunwa
“Digital literacy is going to be so critical, not just during elections, but going forward,pointing to the AI and Future of Work program she heads, which is committed to training law students in AI literacy as well as in the ethical considerations and legal issues from using the technology. “In this AI revolution, we need individuals who are discerning and critical of what they are seeing online. People need the skills to separate AI from reality.” – Ifeoma Ajunwa
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