Jiin Source? is a simulation that recreates the messy, high-pressure digital environments where premature certainty (‘seizing and freezing’) feels tempting, so we can study, understand and teach how people actually reason, doubt, and reflect under real cognitive and emotional pressure.”
The hardest part of media literacy is not fact-checking a single claim, but managing the emotional and cognitive strain of navigating contradictions in messy digital environments. Source? is designed to capture this nuance —
how people think, feel, and decide when information pulls them in different directions.
Beyond teaching, the platform serves as a research lab. By logging user notes, choices, and interactions, it allows us to study moments of seizing, freezing, and unfreezing. Heatmaps and process data make it possible to visualize how reasoning shifts under pressure, opening new ways to investigate epistemic resilience in digital contexts.



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