Let's make a nutrition label for information. Can we map the building blocks of useful information online? What would a nutrition label look like? What kind of information would go on it, and would we need to do to make it successful? In this workshop, we'll look at a few articles and stories online and talk about what its components are. Then, we'll break up into groups and start developing a nutrition label or map of its components that can help people understand how they should assess it quality. Finally, we'll think about rollout strategies: what does this look like on a platform? How about in a school? What policy strategies will we need to make it effective?
Dwight has 10 years of policy and communications experience with deep expertise at the intersection of politics, media, technology and journalism. He currently heads up operations for the Credibility Coalition, an interdisciplinary group committed to improving our information ecosystems... Read More →
Director of Product / Strategy Lead, Meedan / Credibility Coalition
An "An Xiao" Mina is a technologist, writer and artist. She is the author of the forthcoming book Memes to Movements: How the World's Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power. She leads the product team at Meedan, where they are building Check, a platform for collaboratively verifying news in real time, and Bridge, a platform for translating social media and messaging app content. Check has played a key role in innovative digital journalism projects such as Electionland and CrossCheck, both... Read More →
