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Tag: Artificial Intelligence

  • AI to Counteract Hate Speech

    AI to Counteract Hate Speech

    Proposal: Using AI Tools to Counteract Hate Speech and Hate Crimes

    Implementation: 2025 to 2027

    Call: CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI – Promote civil society organisations’ awareness of, capacity building and implementation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

    Topic: CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-SPEECH

    Type of Action: CERV-PJG – CERV Project Grants

    Proposed Budget: 610 244,50€

    Keywords: hate speech, disinformation, counteracting, protecting european values

    Objective: Given the growing scale of hate speech in public spaces, especially online, this project aims to comprehensively examine the phenomenon of hate speech in various socio-cultural contexts and develop a tool using generative artificial intelligence to identify and report hate speech in each language. The project focuses on the analysis of hate speech, development of innovative technological solutions, as well as social education in the field of recognizing and counteracting hate speech. The aim of the project is to strengthen the protection of EU values by providing an effective tool supporting the fight against hate speech, which will enable citizens to report cases of hate to the appropriate law enforcement authorities.

    Partners:

    • Instytut Dyskursu I Dialogu
    • IM Cultural Institute
    • Grupa Tipmedia Spolka Z Ograniczona Odpowiedzialnoscia
    • Fondatsiya Savremenna Plevenska Mediya
    • Fundación Centro De Estudos Eurorrexiónais Galicia Norte De Portugal
    • Asociacion Consortium Local-Global Coglobal
    • Action For The Civil Society
    • Interaktion – Verein Für Ein Interkulturelles Zusammenleben
  • Towards a Definition of Hate Speech—With a Focus on Online Contexts

    Towards a Definition of Hate Speech—With a Focus on Online Contexts

    This review addresses the ongoing challenges faced by legislators and digital platforms in defining and regulating hate speech online.

    Despite increased attention to the issue, questions surrounding the definition of hate speech remain unresolved, raising concerns about both theoretical clarity and practical applicability. For this reason, the paper focuses on three central questions: the main challenges involved in defining hate speech, the possible alternatives to existing definitions, and the relationship between the scope of a definition and its operationalization in online contexts.

    By tracing regulatory and definitional efforts across legal, paralegal, and technology platform settings, the review identifies four main modes of defining hate speech: teleological, pure consequentialist, formal, and consensus or relativist approaches.

    The authors highlight that, although hate speech has long been the focus of legal and ethical debate, both its theoretical definition and its regulation remain elusive. Existing definitions are often vague or internally inconsistent, with no universally accepted framework emerging from legal theory, jurisprudence, or academic research. This lack of consensus is further complicated by new ethical and communicative challenges posed by digital and social media environments.

    Learn more about this review here: https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599221124309

    Reference

    Hietanen, M., & Eddebo, J. (2022). Towards a Definition of Hate Speech—With a Focus on Online Contexts. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 47(4), 440-458

  • A Snapshot of Digital Literacy

    A Snapshot of Digital Literacy

    This literature review has the purpose of analyzing the impact of digital literacy and its evolving nature on individuals’ daily lives.

    It explores digital literacy frameworks, approaches to digital literacy education, as well as the relationship between digital literacy and critical thinking, while also addressing emerging and future challenges in digital contexts, providing insight into digital literacy from the perspectives of global citizenship, critical thinking, and rapidly advancing technologies.

    Drawing on a qualitative review of recent literature, the authors reflect on current research to identify key trends in digital literacy.

    Analysis indicates a growing focus on digital literacy over time, with different organizations and institutions developing their own frameworks to support and implement digital literacy initiatives. The review also shows that digital literacy development often begins within the family at an early age and continues throughout life as part of a broader lifelong learning process.

    Moreover, it is discussed how engagement with online resources—particularly social media—contributes to the development of digital literacy skills, while at the same time requiring strong critical thinking abilities to evaluate and filter information. Issues such as information suppression are highlighted as important concerns, underscoring the increasing significance of digital literacy for future generations. As digital technologies continue to advance, the scope of digital literacy is expected to expand further, including competencies related to artificial intelligence.

    Learn more about this review here: https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-12-2021-0095?urlappend=%3Futm_source%3Dresearchgate.net%26utm_medium%3Darticle

    Reference

    Tinmaz H, Fanea-Ivanovici M, Baber H (2023), “A snapshot of digital literacy”. Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 40 No. 1 pp. 20–23