Decoding Algorithms: Media and AI Literacy for All
ALGOWATCH (October 2023 – September 2025) aims to create a dedicated multi-stakeholder team focused on algo-literacy, an emergent sub-field of Media and Information Literacy (MIL), with a special focus on how to detect and deflect algorithmic disinformation. The action will use an empowerment by design methodology, having participants co-create interactive quizzes and board games, to foster self-efficacy and participatory processes among people with low skills (youth 15+ and multiplier professionals).
ALGOWATCH capitalizes on 2022 Crossover project, to scale up algo-literacy across Europe. It will unpack the Crossover “Algo literacy for all in 10 key points, with interactive quizzes and board games shared in local exhibits, for better e-inclusion. The action will have a strong focus on behavioural change, motivating watchful participants to build individual resilience and collective resistance to disinformation (verification, advocacy, alternate uses).
The ALGOWATCH work plan includes four main activities:
- Produce interactive quizzes and games for awareness
- Engage participants in co-creative activities in an exhibit space
- Deploy exhibit in workshops with multiplier professionals in formal settings (schools) and in informal settings (libraries, museums)
- Disseminate the resources for transfer of practices.
The final deliverables will consist of an activity bank and a dissemination toolkit (with pathways for e-inclusion, communication plan and evaluation plan).
The ALGOWATCH consortium brings together all required expertise, each partner working with an extended network of partners and EDMO hubs:
- Savoir Devenir (France), a Media and Information Literacy NGO with experience in games, quizzes and project coordination
- Association for Communication and Media Culture (DKMK, Croatia), a Media and Information Literacy NGO with experience in workshop evaluation;
- Maynooth University (NUIM, Ireland), a university specialised in digital games and empowerment by design
- Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal), a university specialised in training and outreach to diverse communities of practice.