6.9h How effective are emerging technical and regulatory approaches (such as provenance frameworks, watermarking, or platform transparency measures) in supporting trust in online information?
Background
In an increasingly online news landscape, DCMS is keen to understand how audiences navigate digital spaces to find trusted and accurate information, and the factors that influence trust in different media sources and forms of online content. This includes broader questions about what supports a healthy and trustworthy information ecosystem, and how policy can support informed participation in a changing media system. These issues are central not only to media markets but also to public trust, democratic participation and the resilience of the UK’s information environment.
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Related UKRI funded projects
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STRAPP: Trusted Digital Spaces through Timely Reliable and Personalised Provenance
STRAPP is a collaborative project to address the issue of trust in the use of shared digital systems, by developing innovative uses of provenance information to enhance the decision making process. Modern businesses rely...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically focuses on developing a provenance framework for trusted digital spaces to enhance decision-making and address trust issues in shared digital systems.
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ReEnTrust: Rebuilding and Enhancing Trust in Algorithms
As interaction on online Web-based platforms is becoming an essential part of people's everyday lives and data-driven AI algorithms are starting to exert a massive influence on society, we are experiencing significant te...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Oxford
Why might this be relevant?
The project explores rebuilding trust in algorithms on online platforms and aims to identify user expectations and requirements for trust rebuilding in algorithmic systems.
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Glass Houses: Transparency and Privacy in Information Economies
In recent years, the trust that society places in opaque centralised mechanisms run by government, network operators, and financial institutions has been eroding, with various events (e.g., the financial meltdown of 2007...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on transparency and privacy in information economies using distributed ledgers, which partially addresses the question by discussing the importance of transparency and distributed trust mechanisms.