The Misinformation Edition
The Glass Room
Nikoline Arns 2018
The Misinformation Edition of the Glass Room explores different types of misinformation, teaches you how to recognise it, and how to combat its spread
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Tackling Misinformation
We hear a lot about misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories these days. But what makes a piece of information reliable or unreliable? Is something “misinformation” if it simply presents an opinion we don’t agree with? And what role do new technologies and social media platforms play in how misinformation spreads and the impact it has on our culture, politics and society?
This exhibition explores what misinformation is, why it’s shared and how it spreads. Find out how we, the individual users, take part through our many clicks, likes and shares. Learn about the business models, design practices and habits that create an environment where misinformation can spread or go viral. And understand how misinformation becomes normalised, and how the decisions made by the gatekeepers of technologies can influence our behaviours and opinions.
What is in the Misinformation Edition?
The Glass Room Misinformation Edition, originally launched in 2020 and updated in 2022, explores how social media and the web have changed the way we read information and react to it. We present new types of influencers, the new and old tactics they use, and the role we the users and consumers play in the way information flows and changes within that flow. We also examine the relationship between personal data, targeting and our opinions, views and behaviours, as well as the business models behind it.
The exhibition consists of 10 posters - available in 3 formats, 8 video animations and 4 apps.
The newest edition of The Glass Room Community Edition, is available in three different printed versions as well as the
digital exhibition
Poster
: Our original poster sets are ideal for gallery spaces, libraries, and conferences (75x75cm, 150x75cm) -
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Easyprint
: This easy-to-print format is a low-cost to produce as it is printed on A3 and A4 sheets of paper. It is ideal to be hosted in classrooms -
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Outdoor
: Our large banners printed on PVC are mounted on metal fencing. They are ideal for open-air events (340cmx173cm) -
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Along with the exhibition, our free
Data Detox Kit
reveals different ways misinformation disguises itself and gives you practical tips on how to find verifiable information on the internet. Moreover, you can host our
workshops
using our resources to help engage your community in questioning its engagement with technology.
Explore The Glass Room
The Glass Room began as a large scale exhibition, traveling from
Berlin
to
New York
London
and
San Francisco
between 2016 and 2019. A growing need for public interventions and information about technology led to the
Glass Room Community Edition
– a lightweight, pop-up exhibition which can be shipped worldwide to community spaces, schools, libraries and festivals.
The first release of this series was
The Internet of Things (IoT) Edition
exploring the risks and benefits of the everyday technologies that we invite into our homes and lives. The second series is this Misinformation Edition exploring the roles of design tricks, deepfakes, business models and data in the spread of information online.
So far, there have been over
471 Glass Room events
across
61 countries
all around the world, reaching over
352,000 people
– with many more planned in 2023. When you host a Glass Room Community Edition event, you join a global conversation on data and privacy.
Translations
Our Community Edition exhibitions have been translated to various languages. Visit our
translations page
to find out more.
What's Inside the Misinformation Edition?
Deep Future
How “deepfake” technology could change your life.
Hooked
A visualisation exploring the time we spend on our mobile devices.
Are You Hooked?
Am interactive visualisation where visitors can find out how long they spend on their devices and add their own data to the chart.
How Your Phone is Designed to Grab Your Attention
A visualisation exploring the tricks and techniques used by online apps and tools to keep us addicted to our mobile phones.
Google Society
A visualisation depicting the unprecedented amounts of data that Google collects, stores and processes. How much does Google know about the behaviours and patterns of the whole world?
We Are All Connected
A visualisation depicting how we are more connected than ever, continuously circulating content by viewing, ranking, liking and sharing.
We All Have Opinions
A visualisation discussing our ability to exchange opinions and adapt our own views which is crucial for our communication with friends, family, strangers, institutions and organisations.
We All Share
A visualisaiton questioning if we always know the true nature of the content we like, endorse or forward?
Fake or Real
Find out for yourself how easy it is to detect facts from fiction in online news.
A Drop in the Ocean
Take the Cambridge Analytica test used to capture millions of personality profiles from Facebook, and find out what kinds of ads you may be shown as a result.
Double Check
Play this game to see which photos have been changed to catch you out.
Deep Fake Lab
An in-depth exploration of how deep fake technology can be programmed to fool us.
Data Detox Kit
Our easy guide to online privacy and well being for visitors to take away with them.
Get Involved
Host Your Own Glass Room Misinformation Edition
The Glass Room Misinformation Edition has been slimmed down to a smaller edition in a pop-up format so that you can also host your own Glass Room event. This portable light-weight, low-cost version is based on our
Community Edition
, which has been successfully hosted in libraries, schools, conferences, and even metro stations.
We enable our partners to host Glass Rooms all over the world in a multitude of languages. You can contact us at
events@tacticaltech.org
if you have any questions.
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There are no upcoming events at this moment.
Get inspired and creative on how to host your own exhibition and adapt the content to suit your community!
In the Misinformation Edition, we explore how social media and the web have changed the way we read information and react to it.
The Misinformation Edition exhibits include many interactive features to engage the visitors such as the Are You Hooked Poster
The Data Detox Kit is a guide that provides simple steps you can take to control your digital privacy, security and wellbeing.
The Misinformation Edition comes with a series of apps to help explore the themes
In the Youth Misinformation edition, posters, apps and games engage young people in the role of information in the age of the internet.
Introducing our new Outdoor format printed onto weather-proof banners and mounted onto metal fences - perfect for open-air events
Introducing our easy to print format in A3 and A4
The Easyprint format can be set-up with very little cost, and easily transported to events, workshops and classrooms
The original Poster format is ideal for libraries, galleries, and conferences
Get inspired and creative on how to host your own exhibition and adapt the content to suit your community!
In the Misinformation Edition, we explore how social media and the web have changed the way we read information and react to it.
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