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Critical Digital Citizenship Ethics and Trust in AI Freedom and Manipulation Public Authority SSH Researcher
The impact of social networks and misinformation on citizens’ opinions and attitudes

This document adopts a psychological and cognitive perspective on misinformation and disinformation, focusing on the interaction between cognitive biases, emotional motivations, social communication goals, and contemporary information environments

Effect of Technology: Agency, Autonomy, Bias, Disinformation & Misinformation, Epistemic effect, Individuals, Polarisation
Democratic values: Accountability, Pluralism, Trust
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Personal Data and User Profiling Citizen Computer Scientist Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner 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: 

(1) democracy can assist us in producing laws and policies that protect the rights and interests of citizens, 

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
Format: External link
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