Propaganda Barometer : A Supportive Tool to Improve Media Literacy Towards Building a Critically Thinking Society
Khriyenko, O. (2018). Propaganda Barometer : A Supportive Tool to Improve Media Literacy Towards Building a Critically Thinking Society. GSTF Journal on Computing, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5176/2251-3043_6.1.113
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To smartly consume a huge and constantly growing
volume of information, to identify fake news and resist
propaganda in the context of Information Warfare, to improve
personal critical thinking capabilities and increase media
literacy, people require supportive environment with
sophisticated technology facilitated tools. With rapid
development of media, widespread popularity of social networks
and fast growing amount of information distribution channels,
propaganda and information warfare enter an absolutely new
digital technology supported cyber era. Propaganda mining is not
a trivial and very time consuming process for human. And, as
with any new technology, human need certain time to understand
its actual purpose, learn and adapt own behavior making
consumption of a technology more valuable, beneficial and
enjoyable. To make adoption faster and minimize possible
harmful influence, we need to find a proper way to apply
currently available technologies and knowledge for elaboration of
supportive tool that helps information consumers to become
more independent, insightful, and critical.
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