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Check out my new “Media Literacy Roundup: 2 August 2025” newsletter on SubStack!
https://open.substack.com/pub/wfryer/p/media-literacy-roundup-2-august-2025?r=d4phj&utm_campaign=post&u…

Media Literacy Roundup: 2 August 2025
Media, Links and Reflections from Wes Fryer

Digital literacy interventions can boost humans in discerning deepfakes
Dominique Geissler, Claire Robertson, Stefan Feuerriegel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23492 https://…

Digital literacy interventions can boost humans in discerning deepfakes
Deepfakes, i.e., images generated by artificial intelligence (AI), can erode trust in institutions and compromise election outcomes, as people often struggle to discern real images from deepfakes. Improving digital literacy can help address these challenges, yet scalable and effective approaches remain largely unexplored. Here, we compare the efficacy of five digital literacy interventions to boost people's ability to discern deepfakes: (1) textual guidance on common indicators of deepfakes; (2…

Integrating Universal Generative AI Platforms in Educational Labs to Foster Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy
Vasiliy Znamenskiy, Rafael Niyazov, Joel Hernandez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00007

Integrating Universal Generative AI Platforms in Educational Labs to Foster Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy
This paper presents a new educational framework for integrating generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini into laboratory activities aimed at developing critical thinking and digital literacy among undergraduate students. Recognizing the limitations and risks of uncritical reliance on large language models (LLMs), the proposed pedagogical model reframes GenAI as a research subject and cognitive tool. Students formulate discipline-specific prompts a…

Check out my new “Media Literacy Roundup: 2 August 2025” newsletter on SubStack!
https://open.substack.com/pub/wfryer/p/media-literacy-roundup-2-august-2025?r=d4phj&utm_campaign=post&u…

Media Literacy Roundup: 2 August 2025
Media, Links and Reflections from Wes Fryer

Half an hour to go: closing event of our #swissuniversities
project “Digital Literacy in University Contexts.”
https://www.zhaw.ch/en/linguistics/researc

Check out my day 2 notes (so far) for #CivicsOfTech25 the “Civics of Technology 2025 Conference.” Challenging & important presentations, esp from Chris Guilliard and Ian Linkletter:
https://wfryer.me/day2 

Notes - Civics Of Technology 2025 (July 31 - Aug 1)
Notes - Civics Of Technology 2025 (July 31 - Aug 1) What is this? My name is Wes Fryer and I am a middle school media literacy teacher in North Carolina. More links for me are on: https://wesfryer.com/after These are my notes and links from the July 31 / August 1 2025 “Civics of Technology”...

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Financial literacy, robo-advising, and the demand for human financial advice: Evidence from Italy
This paper investigates the impact of objective financial knowledge, confidence in one's financial skills, and digital financial literacy on individuals' decisions to seek financial advice from robo-advice platforms. Using microdata from the Bank of Italy's survey on adults' "Financial Literacy and Digital Financial Skills in Italy", we find that individuals with greater financial knowledge are less inclined to rely on online services for automated financial advice. On the contrary, confidence …

Financial literacy, robo-advising, and the demand for human financial advice: Evidence from Italy
David Aristei, Manuela Gallo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20527

Financial literacy, robo-advising, and the demand for human financial advice: Evidence from Italy
This paper investigates the impact of objective financial knowledge, confidence in one's financial skills, and digital financial literacy on individuals' decisions to seek financial advice from robo-advice platforms. Using microdata from the Bank of Italy's survey on adults' "Financial Literacy and Digital Financial Skills in Italy", we find that individuals with greater financial knowledge are less inclined to rely on online services for automated financial advice. On the contrary, confidence …

"So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand."
"Using AI is not about communicating. It’s about avoiding communicating. It’s about not reading, not writing, not drawing, not seeing. It’s about ceding our powers of expression and comprehension to digital apps that will cushion us from fully participating in our own lives."

Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?
So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.

🚨 Encryption isn’t optional anymore. In EdTechSR Episode 342: Jason & I discuss why the FBI wants you on Signal, Google’s antitrust headaches, and AI tools that’ll blow your mind.
🎙️ https://edtechsr.com/2025/05/30/edtechsr-ep-342-encrypted-by-default/

EdTechSR Ep 342 Encrypted by Default
where technology news meets educational analysis Welcome to episode 342 (“Encrypted by Default”) of the EdTech Situation Room from December 18, 2024, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neiffer (aicentrist.com) and Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) unpacked the FBI’s unprecedented advice urging Americans to use encrypted messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp, discussing the implications for personal privacy, national security, and school digital literacy…

Who's in? Household-targeted Government Policies and the Role of Financial Literacy in Market Participation
Maria Elena Filippin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12575

Who's in? Household-targeted Government Policies and the Role of Financial Literacy in Market Participation
This paper examines how household-targeted government policies influence financial market participation conditional on financial literacy, focusing on potential Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) adoption. Due to the lack of empirical CBDC data, I use the introduction of retail Treasury bonds in Italy as a proxy to investigate how financial literacy affects households' likelihood to engage with the new instrument. Using the Bank of Italy's Survey on Household Income and Wealth, I explore how …