COURAGE: A social media companion safeguarding and educating students (DUS.AD007.097)

Thematic area

Social sciences and humanities, cultural heritage

Project area

Structure responsible for the research project

Institute for educational technology (ITD)

Project manager

davide taibi
Phone number: 0916809216
Email: davide.taibi@itd.cnr.it

Abstract

This project aims to develop a Social Media User's Virtual Companion that educates and supports teenage school students facing the treats of social media such as discrimination and biases also escalating to hate speech, bullying, fake news and other toxic content that can strongly affect the real world. The Companion will raise awareness of potential threats in social media while still providing a satisfactory experience through the use of novel gamification strategies and educative information selection algorithms.
Using hand defined gamification strategies based on the concept of interactive counter-narrative together with a learnt model of diffusion of biased, hateful and general toxic content on the social media, the companion will bootstrap learning of strategies for interaction and information selection. These strategies will be refined and personalized for each user and his social niche with the dual aims of (A) improving and creating healthy social relationships between the user, his peers and the targets of bias, as well as, (B) increasing their understanding of the social effects of toxic content in social media and the user role in its propagation.

Start date of activity

01/04/2019

Keywords

social network, social companion, educational environment

Last update: 20/04/2024