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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2024
College Graduate School of Social Design Studies
Course Code VM499
Theme・Subtitle (メディアリテラシーとファクトチェック)
Class Format HyFlex
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus Lecture
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Spring Semester
DayPeriod・Room Wed.5・1103
Credit 2
Course Number SDS5410
Language Japanese
Class Registration Method Course Code Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges 履修登録システムの『他学部・他研究科履修不許可科目一覧』で確認してください。
course cancellation -(履修中止制度なし/ No system for cancellation)
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy 各授業科目は、学部・研究科の定める学位授与方針(DP)や教育課程編成の方針(CP)に基づき、カリキュラム上に配置されています。詳細はカリキュラム・マップで確認することができます。
Notes 社会デザイン研究科では、教室での対面授業を基本としながら、同時に遠隔地在住の学生の学びを保証するため、オンラインでも受講できる形で授業を行う。なお、履修者全員の了承が取れた場合には、「対面のみ」もしくは「オンラインのみ」で授業を行うこともある。
Text Code VM499

【Course Objectives】

Disruption in the media and information space is a major problem.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Hamas-Israel armed clashes, treated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, major earthquakes. With each of these events, a huge amount of information comes and goes, and there is a flood of misinformation/false information that causes real harm to our society.
In addition, falsehoods about social issues such as LGBTQ, gender, poverty inequality and climate change are spread, saying that such issues do not exist in the first place. Information pollution also causes social exclusion and fragmentation in the advancement of social design.

Social networks and video distribution platforms have become an indispensable infrastructure for our lives. It is our important role to ensure the health of the spaces where this information comes and goes.
In this exercise, we will review the characteristics of modern information and the current state and challenges of its distribution, while deepening our knowledge of the origins and algorithms of the platforms that hold the key.
Furthermore, you will gain an understanding of how misinformation and false information is generated and how it is shared and spread.

Our society faces a wide range of challenges. In order to correctly identify these challenges and to ensure that everyone looks in the direction of solutions to them, we must also put false information that is incorrect or deliberately false behind us.
The first step is to learn the basics and applications of 'fact-checking' in order to make the media and information space healthier and to become a leader in 'improving literacy'.

【Course Contents】

First, an overview of the characteristics of the contemporary information space is given: the vast amount of information flying around on social networking and video distribution platforms on a daily basis. Various studies and data confirm that phenomena such as the attention economy and filter bubbles are occurring in this context, and that users are surrounded by information and discourse that they do not want, without even realising it.

Learn that some information can be harmful and costly to the individual user and society, and acquire literacy in how to detect and separate it from the rest.

Learn fact-checking techniques to be able to further actively scrutinise and share information. Globally, fact-checking is spreading to individual grassroots as well as experts.

The basics of fact-checking are taught in lectures, followed by practical training in exploration, verification, textualisation and sharing. These methods are taught in a workshop format, with teachers lecturing on the basics as well as on applications, presenting real-life examples.

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