Cognition Engineering in the Digital Era
In an era of cognition engineering operating in the digital space, a space that generates social polarization, a social and cultural rift, the school acts to realize the museum’s vision and aims to create awareness and a deep understanding of what happens in the digital space, an understanding of how human attention works and how networks use it to engineer cognition, falsehood. During the study days you can examine the conduct of influencers against experts who operate on us in a manipulative way that arouses responsiveness in which we “listen” to those similar to us and exclude ourselves from the encounter with the other, significantly harming each of our digital health, a harm with broad implications for our overall conduct. Within this framework: three different study days in a workshop-like format for more details – link (text appears later in the document)
The Attention Economy: Who Controls What I Think?
Seminar 01This seminar lasts between 5 - 7 hours depending on the population and the group's needs, with numerous experiences in various ways
Who Controls What I Think? How the Attention Economy Controls Us
- We will recognize and understand the digital and psychological factors
- We will address the dangers to a democratic society
- We will confront the increase in personal responsibility
The Attention Economy and Its Implications for Society and Democracy
- We will learn and experience phenomena and limits of human attention
- We will understand the economic implications of human attention
- We will become familiar with and identify the strategies employed
Influencers and Their Influence
- We will examine the difference between an expert and an influencer and the ability to identify them on the network
- We will develop the ability to identify the ways in which influencers shape our attitudes unconsciously
- We will analyze and acquire tools to refine our ability to shape our opinions with a critical and conscious view of influencers' influences
Digital Health
- We will be exposed to the implications of dependence and the extent of our use of the digital space
- We will understand the damages of this dependence from psychological, social perspectives, and especially on shaping our attitudes and our social and interpersonal influence abilities
- We will receive tools for norms of conduct in digital spaces, and for improving personal welfare and creating civic responsibility for social cohesion.
"The Power of a Word" – How content on digital platforms shapes our attitudes
Seminar 02This seminar lasts between 5 – 7 hours depending on the population and the group's needs, with numerous experiences in various ways
The Power of a Word – How content on digital platforms shapes our attitudes
- We will understand how digital platform content exploits our cognitive biases to perform manipulation and influence our attitudes
- We will raise awareness of the truth / lies of information spread on networks and equip tools to identify / think critically
- We will be exposed to and address the dangers to society and democracy due to deceptive content on networks
- We will practice to raise awareness and critical thinking about content on the network and equip tools to deal with the manipulations they perform on us
- We will open a window to the topic of fake news on digital platforms and our limitations in recognizing them
The Digital Trap
- We will understand how content on digital platforms captures our attention and shapes our attitudes
- We will gain the ability to assess the quality of information to which we are exposed in digital spaces and its impact on polarization processes
- We will understand how our attention limits and digital health heighten the risks of digital polarization and harm to democratic society
- We will receive tools that enable us to become more responsible and conscious information consumers and producers, strengthening personal and social resilience in the digital era
The Post That Made Me Do It
- We will analyze and understand the importance of posts on networks and their impact
- We will address the implications of information for social and political polarization processes
- We will practice the ability to critically analyze posts – truth / fiction and their impact on me and my attitudes
Digital Health
- We will examine in detail our extent of use and dependence on the digital space
- We will analyze the implications of this dependence from psychological, social, and especially on shaping our attitudes and our social and interpersonal influence abilities
- We will acquire tools and norms of conduct in digital spaces, for improving personal welfare and creating civic responsibility for social cohesion.
