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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Positive Learning in the Internet Age: Developments and Perspectives in the PLATO Program

Mita BanerjeeAlexander MehlerOlga Zlatkin-troitschanskaiaJochen RoeperWalter Bisang

subject

business.industryInternet privacySocial mediaThe InternetMisinformationHumanismPsychologybusinessHuman learning

description

The Internet has become the main informational entity, i.e., a public source of information. The Internet offers many new benefits and opportunities for human learning, teaching, and research. However, by providing a vast amount of information from innumerable sources, it also enables the manipulation of information; there are countless examples of disseminated misinformation and false data in mass and social media. Much of the information presented online is conflicting, preselected, or algorithmically obscure, often colliding with fundamental humanistic values and posing moral or ethical problems.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2019-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26578-6_1