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Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Computer Scientist Public Authority SSH Researcher
Democracy-in-the-Loop: A New Logic for Digital Participation (Recipe 1 of 5 from the Digital Democracy Lab Handbook)

Recipe series. 1st describing DITL

Effect of Technology: Agency, Democracy, Legitimacy, Opacity
Democratic values: Deliberation, Participation, Pluralism, Trust
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Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Computer Scientist Public Authority SSH Researcher
Designing AI for Democracy, Not Just for Functionality (Recipe 3 of 5 from the Digital Democracy Lab Handbook)

Designing tech with friction

Effect of Technology: Agency, Bias, Legitimacy, Opacity
Democratic values: Accountability, Deliberation, Transparency, Trust
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Critical Digital Citizenship Ethics and Trust in AI Freedom and Manipulation Computer Scientist SSH Researcher
Experiments on critical thinking, autonomy and AI

The experimental component of Module A aims to further characterise internet users' behaviours when faced with online choices potentially undermining their autonomy: how people evaluate AI-generated information and/or content selected through AI-based algorithms, and how people are influenced by

Effect of Technology: Agency, Autonomy, Bias, Disinformation & Misinformation, Epistemic effect, Inclusion/Exclusion, Polarisation
Democratic values: Accountability, Trust
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AI and Culture Citizen Computer Scientist Public Authority SSH Researcher
Module C: Historical perspective – Free Will and Autonomy

This section considers how people’s autonomy and free will are hindered or supported by past and present KTs. By focusing on the structural level, we will examine systemic issues such as monopolies over KTs, data extraction and colonialism, labour, and political participation.

Effect of Technology: Agency, Autonomy, Concentration of Power, Culture, Individuals
Democratic values: Accountability, Participation, Pluralism
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AI and Culture Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Computer Scientist Public Authority SSH Researcher
Module C: Historical perspective – Creativity

This section analyses how different knowledge technologies impact people’s creativity. Here creativity is intended as the ability to express themselves in a way that is both truthful to what they feel and believe, as well as the power to experiment with artistic creation.

Effect of Technology: Agency, Culture, Epistemic effect, Individuals
Democratic values: Participation, Pluralism
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Critical Digital Citizenship Freedom and Manipulation Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Computer Scientist Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
Risks to individual freedoms of speech and action

Since our liberal democracies generally employ forms of representativeness to their institutions, the impact of AI on free and fair elections is also one of the key ways in which technology affects our polities.

Effect of Technology: Agency, Autonomy, Bias, Disinformation & Misinformation, Epistemic effect, Inclusion/Exclusion, Individuals, Polarisation, Privacy, Society, Surveillance
Democratic values: Accountability, Deliberation, Equality, Fairness, Participation, Transparency, Trust
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Personal Data and User Profiling Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Computer Scientist Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher
The value of democracy

There are both instrumental and intrinsic reasons to value democracy. In short, democracy is valuable instrumentally because 

Effect of Technology: Agency, Culture, Democracy, Epistemic effect, Inclusion/Exclusion, Individuals, Legitimacy, Opacity, Society
Democratic values: Accountability, Deliberation, Equality, Fairness, Participation, Pluralism, Rule of Law, Transparency, Trust
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Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Computer Scientist Public Authority SSH Researcher
What Makes a Democratic Process Work? Distinguishing Efficiency from Efficacy

Describes the difference between efficiency and democratic effectiveness

Effect of Technology: Agency, Culture, Democracy, Legitimacy
Democratic values: Deliberation, Participation, Transparency, Trust
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