Internet Literacy

DEMOCRACY IS DETERIORATING

You could be part of the solution.

Internet literacy is the ability to access, understand, critique, and create information and communication content online.

The lack of internet literacy is one of the greatest risks of our day contributing to:

Skewing Democracies
Dangerous Medical Misinformation
Fake News
Widening Polarization

Fundamentally these risks to society stem from a popular indifference and misunderstanding about how the internet works.

Solutions You Can Be Part Of

It isn't easy to know what to do about this.

Every year my art practice educates hundreds of thousands of people around the world about how search engines, artificial intelligence, tracking algorithms, synthetic media, and natural langue processing work.

Through press, social media, exhibitions, lectures, and articles my work converts the indifferent into the educated and the educated into the active. The value is in bringing this knowledge and the important conversations around it to a wide and diverse audience that is rarely seeking it out.

Not everyone considers this work to be valuable. Internet literacy is not financially rewarded in our society.

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For those who know the work of Internet Literacy education is ongoing.

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gretchen's Q1&2 2022 Internet Literacy Report

Q1-2 celebrated the publication of gretchen's museum catalog in Austria, expansion to the middle east, the introductions of NFTs as a vehicle of internet change and education, the launch of Meta/Facebook education as well as many other victories for internet literacy.

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Darwin Circle 2022

Panel conference hosted by Darwin Circle on November 3rd 2022 in Vienna

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[DFC Talk] Productive Uncertainty: Gretchen Andrew & Jake Elwes

Artificial intelligence, like human intelligence, gets its education from somewhere. What if we educated Artificial Intelligence based on the world we want, not the world we have? Gretchen Andrew & Jake Elwes discussing on a better future for AI Monday, September 13, 6pm OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz _______________________________________________________________________ We call most inputs into AI “data” when really we educate AI with “capta.” What is conventionally understood as data — the raw material “given” to us for consideration — is in fact capta, or what we choose to “take.” Artificial intelligence has to be educated and humans have to decide how to educate it. So much is said about removing bias from AI, but what if we intentionally added more perspectives, wider definitions, more...weirdness? What kind of futures might we create? Gretchen Andrew and Jake Elwes’s work in how to bring more positivity and playflesnses into using AI as a creative tool. ______________________________________________________________________ The discussion was a forerunner to Gretchen Andrew’s exhibition TRUST BOUNDARY opening at the Francisco Carolinum on October 16. Gretchen Andrew ( www.instagram.com/gretchenandrew ) Jake Elwes ( www.instagram.com/jakeelwes ) www.ooelkg.at

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Google Exacerbates the Internet’s Sexism

Google Exacerbates the Internet’s Sexism: How the tech giant’s revenue model leads to an unequal internet Drawings and text by Gretchen Andrew Video by Jeff Andrew Published on Imperica In today’s most important information channel females are defined by what of them can be sold and consumed. Tufekci has pointed out that, “The same algorithms set loose upon us to make us more pliable for ads are also organizing our political, personal and social information flows.” Within this model, females surface as products before they surface as people. The female body as a product is commoditized and sexualized, and from it Google earns revenue, 43 cents per click for girls compared to that of 23 cents for boys.

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