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The Postdigital Challenge of Critical Media Literacy

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izvorni znanstveni rad

The Postdigital Challenge of Critical Media Literacy

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Tip izvorni znanstveni rad
Godina 2019
Časopis The International journal of critical media literacy
Volumen 1
Svesčić 1
Stranice str. 26-37
DOI 10.1163/25900110-00101002
ISSN 2590-0102
EISSN 2590-0110
Status objavljeno

Sažetak

This article situates contemporary critical media literacy into a postdigital context. It examines recent advances in data literacy, with an accent to Big Data literacy and data bias, and expands them with insights from critical algorithm studies and the critical posthumanist perspective to education. The article briefly outlines differences between older software technologies and artificial intelligence (AI), and introduces associated concepts such as machine learning, neural networks, deep learning, and AI bias. Finally, it explores the complex interplay between Big Data and AI and teases out three urgent challenges for postdigital critical media literacy. (1) Critical media literacy needs to reinvent existing theories and practices for the postdigital context. (2) Reinvented theories and practices need to find a new balance between the technological aspects of data and AI literacy with the political aspects of data and AI literacy, and learn how to deal with non-predictability. (3) Critical media literacy needs to embrace the posthumanist challenge ; we also need to start thinking what makes AIs literate and develop ways of raising literate thinking machines. In our postdigital age, critical media literacy has a crucial role in conceptualisation, development, and understanding of new forms of intelligence we would like to live with in the future.

Ključne riječi

postdigital, Artificial Intelligence, critical media literacy, algorithm, critical pedagogy, media studies