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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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Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Public Authority
Facilitating with AI in the Room (Recipe from the Digital Democracy Lab Handbook)

Being a facilitator in a deliberative process using AI

Effect of Technology: Agency, Epistemic effect, Legitimacy, Opacity
Democratic values: Accountability, Deliberation, Participation, 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 – Attention

This section analyses how different knowledge technologies impact people’s attention and, consequently, their decisions regarding which information is worth storing and remembering, and which is instead forgotten or not even registered in the first place.

Effect of Technology: Bias, Culture, Epistemic effect, Individuals, Legitimacy, Polarisation
Democratic values: Deliberation, Transparency
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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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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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When You’re Asked to Use AI: Navigating the Invitation (Recipe 2 of 5 from the Digital Democracy Lab Handbook)

On navigating a request to use AI in a deliberative setting

Effect of Technology: Agency, Bias, Democracy, Legitimacy
Democratic values: Accountability, Fairness, Participation, Trust
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