Future of Democracy Lab

DEM-Debate:

Building a an enabling environment for democratic debate

With over 60 million pages in the English edition alone and more than 300 other language versions, Wikipedia contributes to shaping our understanding of the world. But how are Wikipedia’s volunteer editors tackling false or misleading information? And what role does the EU’s legal framework play in supporting this grassroots effort?

The DEM-Debate project aims to dive into Wikipedia’s fact-checking and moderation practices during the 2024 European Parliament elections and to reflect on the current and upcoming EU legislation addressing disinformation.

This is not only about Wikipedia – it is about fostering a pluralistic, democratic information ecosystem in the digital age. Can Wikipedia’s community-driven model offer a blueprint for creating a more transparent and reliable online information ecosystem in the EU?

AI in Pop-Culture

Activists and organisations often have difficulties with raising awareness of the problems that they make it their mission to solve. What if we got inspiration from pop-culture and artworks that excel at translating the emerging tendencies and new technologies into the zeitgeist?

Together with Uniwersytet SWPS Institute of Humanities in Warsaw, Poland, we delved into exactly this inspiration! Students worked under the direction of the faculty on data collection and report: Visions of AI in Popular Culture: Analysis of the Narratives about Artificial Intelligence in Science Fiction Films and Series.

JohnDarrochNZ, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Stefan Krause, Germany, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons

Markus Trienke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Benh LIEU SONG (Flickr), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Michael S Adler, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons