NSF Convergence Accelerator Track F: Co-designing for Trust: Reimagining Online Information Literacies with Underserved Communities

错误信息——不准确或误导性的信息——已经成为对美国民主日益严重的威胁，因为它破坏了公民对公共信息和机构的信任。它通常通过利用个人信仰、情感和身份来实现这一目标，从而引发扩大社会分歧的反应，并鼓励个人积极抵制竞争主张。解决方案不仅必须为公众提供确定声明真实性的技能，还必须为解决错误信息对社会和情感的影响提供资源。这需要从根本上重新构想我们的数字扫盲方法，以便更好地立足于受错误信息影响最严重的社区的日常现实。对于服务不足的社区来说尤其如此，他们不成比例地成为错误信息的目标。该项目将通过与数字扫盲干预者（社区组织、图书馆员、教师和其他已经专注于提供正规和非正规教育以解决社区内错误信息的人）一起制定当地解决方案来满足这一需求。该项目将建立面向社区的基础设施，使服务不足的社区能够设计、协作和共享解决错误信息的教育资源。它将利用参与式设计和数字扫盲干预主义者，为农村社区和黑人、土著和有色人种（BIPOC）社区创造符合当地背景的数字扫盲资源。它还将设计和实施一个社会技术平台，支持数字扫盲干预者参与作为实践社区（CoP）的教育资源的持续设计。这个平台将使我们能够扩大和维持工作，对国家如何处理错误信息产生持久的影响。最终，该项目将产生关于如何开发参与式设计过程以扩大当地干预的知识。它还将促进我们对社会文化背景和知识系统如何影响数字扫盲干预措施的理解，从而使这些干预措施能够更好地激励和支持不同社区抵制错误信息。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Misinformation – inaccurate or misleading information – has emerged as a growing threat to American democracy since it undermines citizen trust in public information and institutions. It often does so by exploiting personal beliefs, emotions, and identity, thereby triggering responses that expand social divides and encourage individuals to actively resist competing claims. Solutions must not only provide the public with skills for determining the truthfulness of claims, but must also provide resources for addressing the social and emotional impacts of misinformation. This requires a fundamental reimagining of our approach to digital literacy, so that it is better grounded in the everyday realities of the communities most impacted by misinformation. This is particularly true for underserved communities, who are disproportionately targeted by misinformation. The project will address this need by creating local solutions alongside digital literacy interventionists – the community organizations, librarians, teachers, and others already focused on providing formal and informal education to address misinformation within their communities. The project will build community-oriented infrastructure that enables underserved communities to design, collaborate on, and share educational resources that address misinformation. It will leverage participatory design with digital literacy interventionists to create locally-contextualized digital literacy resources for rural communities and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. It will also design and implement a socio-technical platform that supports digital literacy interventionists to engage in the ongoing design of educational resources as a Community of Practice (CoP). This platform will allow us to scale and sustain the work to generate an enduring impact on how the nation addresses misinformation. Ultimately, this project will generate knowledge of how participatory design processes can be developed to scale local interventions. It will also advance our understanding of how sociocultural contexts and knowledge systems can shape digital literacy interventions, so that these interventions are better able to motivate and support diverse communities as they resist misinformation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.