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Algowatch at the European Researchers’ Night in Dublin
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The Algowatch Maynooth team were present at European Researchers Night in Ireland, on Friday, 27 September between 4 – 8pm in the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Trinity College Dublin, and presented for the first time a demo of the Algowatch game to researchers and the public. The event took place Over 800 people passed through the exhibition on the night. The game was set up on two laptops and people were invited to play and provide written feedback via a QR … Read More

Algowatch at the European Researchers’ Night in Lisbon
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The Algowatch project hosted an interactive activity titled “Challenges with Algorithms” during the European Researchers’ Night, on September 27th, at the Botanical Garden in Lisbon. From 8:00 PM to 11:30 PM, researchers Vitor Tomé and Ana Pinto Martinho engaged with approximately 100 visitors at the stand of the Research Centre for Sociology Studies at ISCTE. Participants were invited to complete one of the quizzes available on the project’s website, offered in English, French, or Portuguese, followed by a brief evaluation … Read More

Quizzes
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QUIZ Climate change Health and well-being Democracy and citizenship Online Relationships QUIZ To help you better understand and master AI and algorithms, we suggest you take this series of interactive quizzes. Four topics in which to test your wits. Now it’s your turn to play! Climate change Health and well-being Democracy and citizenship Online Relationships QUIZ Pour mieux comprendre et maîtriser l’IA et les algorithmes, nous vous proposons de vous lancer cette série de quiz interactifs. Quatre thématiques, autant d’univers … Read More

Project presented to the EPALE network
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Divina Frau-Meigs, President of Savoir Devenir, presented the Algowatch project during the online conference “Responsible Artificial Intelligence”, organized on July 9th, by the EPALE network, the ERASMUS platform dedicated to adult continuous training in Europe, specifically for its French community. Tha Algowatch’s leading researcher contributed to the first roundtable, which centered on the stakes for the continuous training of citizens, and detailed the Algowatch background, objectives, and the resources being developed. A link to the Algowatch project was shared during … Read More

Algowatch presented at IAMCR in New Zealand
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Prof Aphra Kerr from Maynooth University, Ireland, presented a paper titled ‘Should Algo- and AI literacy be part of Media & Information Literacy (MIL), and How? (Preliminary) Results from a meta-analysis’  to the Media Education section at the International Association for Media and Communications Research conference in Christchurch New Zealand on the 4th of July, 2024. Co-authored with Prof Divina Frau Meigs, Lana Ciboci Perša, Vitor Tome and Igor Kanižaj from the Algowatch project the presentation reported on the initial … Read More

Project meeting in Lisbon
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The second face-to-face meeting of the Algowatch project took place on 4 and 5 June at the premises of Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, in Portugal, and was attended by seven members of the research team, joined by three more online. As well as taking stock of the project, the team discussed the production of the quizzes and eye openers, as well as the competences associated with the video game currently being produced by the project team. The team … Read More

Media and AI literacy is everyone’s mission
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To address the democratic challenges related to AI, it is necessary to mobilize all stakeholders: journalists, as well as civil society and cultural mediators. The statement comes from Divina Frau-Meigs, the principal investigator of the Algowatch project, and was made at the European Festival of Journalism and Media Literacy, held in Florence, Italy, from March 14th to 16th. Divina Frau-Meigs took part in a debate on ‘AI and journalism: navigating the intersection of economics, ethics, policy and democracy, during which … Read More

Algowatch and Media Literacy Matter
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Divina Frau-Meigs was the first keynote speaker at EMINENT 2023, the annual conference of European Schoolnet, held on 5-6 December 2023 in Rome under the title “Empowering Schools with Digital Skills”.… Read More