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Digital Democracy 101: Understanding Technology’s Effect on Canada’s Democracy
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Many Canadians actively use digital platforms without fully understanding the technology behind them and, crucially, how technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning, social platform algorithms and others are altering Canadian political culture. Participation, the civility of political discourse and the basis of trust on which Canadian democracy and the economy depend have all been affected. Digital Democracy 101 aims to plug this gap and grow Canadians’ understanding of new digital technologies and their relationship with the democratic process.
The Digital Democracy 101 Lecture Series took place in Vancouver, Halifax and Montreal and explained three different digital technology topics: the attention economy, synthetic media and artificial intelligence. Each lecture was delivered by a subject matter expert and was tailored to a novice audience.
To learn more and watch the recorded lectures, check out the event pages for Vancouver, Halifax and Montreal.
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Video: Carl Miller explains online disinformation
When Carl Miller visited Halifax on March 6 to deliver a lecture as part of PPF's Digital Democracy 101 series, he stopped by Global News Morning to explain some of the challenges to democracy posed by cyber warfare, deepfakes and other kinds of disinformation.
Events
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Digital Democracy 101: Understanding AI’s Effect on Canada’s Democracy
Discover how social media algorithms can prevent you from hearing the whole story. In this free lecture, Philippe Beaudoin, Co-Founder and Senior Vice-President of Research Group and Marc-Etienne Ouimette, Head of Public Policy & Government Relations at Element AI explain how algorithms can choose the content you see online and create ‘filter bubbles’. Join us March 14, at 5:30 p.m. at Concordia University.
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Digital Democracy 101: Understanding Deepfakes and Synthetic Media’s Effect on Canada’s Democracy
Discover how you cannot always believe what you see on digital platforms - thanks to new technology that can create fake photos and videos that look very, very real - in this free lecture by Carl Miller, Research Director at Demos. He'll explain how synthetic media can harm democracy March 6 at 10:00 a.m. at Dalhousie University, MacDonald Building, University Hall.
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Digital Democracy 101: Understanding the Attention Economy’s Effect on Canada’s Democracy
Discover the unseen forces on digital platforms that can affect what information you see – and what you don’t - in this free lecture by Carl Miller, Research Director at Demos. He'll explain how the ‘attention economy’ can harm democracy March 4, 6 p.m. at the SFU Vancouver Harbour Centre.
