Who Dat? Digital Identity Great Escape Game

About This Project

Summary

Here at TrollBusters and the Media Innovation Collaboratory, we offer our latest escape room game built on our award-winning Generation Zeitgeist: From User to Creator curriculum. Young users and students learn digital verification, geolocation, open-source investigative skills — and a little bit of other stories — as they travel the streets of New Orleans to solve the mystery of who is behind the mask. Students learn digital forensics, verification, authenticity, geolocation and OSINT skills.

Goals & Objectives

Use engaging, game-like “escape room” modules to help student innovators learn of digital culture, creation and innovation. Student teams select from the digital forensics/skills. challenge list, learning and deploying OSINT skills in solving the geographic mysteries and #LevelUp.

Results & Impact

We create collegiate competition and education materials to teach digital skills in journalism schools. We created an open knowledge repository of digital resilience educational modules, training and assessment tools for K-12 and higher education that are being deployed this fall 2024 in the U.S.