School starts with integrated Digital Media Studies and free time to spend in a mentoring scheme between young and old. Lin has been working with her partner from a neighbouring retirement home and they've finished a project based around Twitter and the construction of echo-chamber 'bubbles' of political opinion through hashtags. Lin was good at navigating Twitter and imparting her knowledge, and her elderly partner contributed sociological wisdom on how conversations around hashtags develop and are steered by participants. All in all, another successful Media Studies project which benefited both partners, helping both to extend their knowledge and improve social cohesion in a new digital age.
The new Digital Media Studies curriculum has been so fruitful that the voting age was successfully lowered, as digital literacy and political engagement levels rose dramatically. Lin is looking forward to E-voting for the first time, and even more to her first participation in the White Hackers competition. She's pretty good at coding, which has been added to the curriculum at a high level. Anyone can use their own skills to defend the voting system from attack, like a live gaming conference, as hacking attempts are broadcast on an internal network and anyone can put their talent on(the)line (pun intended, English still on the curriculum) and try to solve the hack.
Cyber laws have been added to the constitution and are increasingly effective now that citizens trust the organising institutions and voting system more.
After cooking and woodwork class (girl's still gotta eat off her own handmade hinged table), Lin takes a break and is reading online in the forest when she comes across an article that looks unverified. Untrustworthy fake news contributes to echo chamber mentality, and she still has time until Archery (or Apocalypse training, as she calls it in her head), so she adds it to the online portal containing deep learning software that is developing methods to verify information. The more she and her friends verify and add, the better the software becomes at finding and identifying false information online. She's happy to be contributing to a more positive online atmosphere, and resolves to show the article to her elderly Digital Media Studies partner the next time she sees her. Lin knows she will laugh at the typo. If she were better at French, Lin would maybe translate some of it with the help of an online tool, and upload it to the international collaborative forum with her partner school to improve their deep learning software. She sends the article to her friend Laurie instead, he's much better at French. The break is over now and Lin wants to shoot arrows. Each to their own, after all.