DeMasKI stands for 'Disinformation and its Patterns: Identifying Populist Emotionalisation Through a Hybrid Approach'. This interdisciplinary, collaborative project is developing an open-source toolbox that can be used to identify and classify anti-discursive structures in texts, such as social media posts. The identification strategies and classification rules underlying the toolbox are intended to make the rhetorical patterns of disinformation visible and comprehensible.
Within the project, iRights.Lab is responsible for the sub-project 'DeMasKI - Ethical reflection and transfer to civil society'. Based on the overall project's findings, this sub-project aims to raise awareness and support civil society organisations in the field of disinformation. It also helps translate the project's results into civil society practice. To this end, materials and workshops are being developed for civil society multipliers.
As part of the project, iRights.Lab is developing a systematic, interdisciplinary reflection process to guide its various stages. The aim is to identify the opportunities, risks and conflicting objectives of the planned open-source toolbox at an early stage, evaluate them critically and devise measures to minimise risks and maximise opportunities. The process will systematically analyse the interactions between technology, fundamental rights and the common good. The rationale behind design decisions will be made transparent, for example in the form of a register of risks and opportunities, and the perspectives of stakeholders from various fields, such as linguistics, political science, law, information technology, psychology, education and civil society, will be incorporated from the outset.
DeMasKI is being implemented as an interdisciplinary joint project as part of the BMFTR funding measure „Desinformation – erkennen, verstehen, abwehren". The iRights.Lab is joined by the University of Technology Nurnberg, the University of Bamberg and the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. as project partners.
Further information about the project: https://gi.de/meldung/projekt-kick-off-demaski-desinformation-erkennen
