Media literacy in the age of Deepfakes
Created on March 31|Last edited on March 31
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How do you fight misinformation in this age of deep fakes? How can you analyze and act on the threat of misinformation? How do you equip yourself to differentiate between the truth and doctored content? To answer these questions, a free online course by the name of Media Literacy in the Age of Deepfakes has been launched.
The MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality, part of MIT Open Learning and directed by Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory professor D. Fox Harrell, has created the course, with the goal of giving educators and independent learners the resources and critical skills to understand the threat of misinformation. The course addresses misinformation both in terms of specific contemporary technological phenomena and a broader media perspective.
Learning objectives
- Understand key concepts in our emerging media landscape such as “misinformation,” “deepfake,” and “civic media.”
- Interpret the disruptive role deepfakes play within our information ecology and the threat they pose to democratic society.
- Develop techniques for close audio-visual analysis as well as gain familiarity with how digital forensics, platform moderation, and policy can help combat misinformation.
- Recognize the ways that synthetic media and related AI-based media forms can be used for the civic good.
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