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Information accountability – we’re lying to you, get involved!, Sept. 28, 2023
Information is the fuel for reach, sales and power. We’re stuck in the media jungle, feverishly trying not to miss a thing or be shortchanged.
We read a headline halfway through and think we have the topic all figured out. The algorithms and generative AI feed us, and meanwhile the fourth estate in the state – as the press and broadcasting used to be called – has to earn its money through clickbaits.
Dystopia again? No. Don’t worry. Of course we have the solution ready:
Taking responsibility. Easy, actually. This time, we’re working on a first aid kit* for our personal media competence as well as our demands for companies, politics and society.
*Contents in our first aid kit:
🔸Critical thinking
🔸Methodological competence
🔸Communication competence
Critical thinking refers to reasonable reflected thinking. In particular, also the orientation of the thinking of laypersons to the methodological criteria of science.
Methodological competence is the ability to obtain, structure and evaluate information, to classify it in contexts and to correctly interpret and present the resulting events.
Communication competence is the ability of communicators to select appropriate behavior and thus achieve interpersonal goals without massively violating the interests of the other person.
