Public event in Vienna, 4th of June 2018
How to deal with online hate speech, cyber bullying and the spread of online fake news? These were the topics of discussion at a public event that took place at the Pädagogische Hochschule Wien (Vienna School of Education) on 4th of June 2018. Organized as part of MEET’s public outreach efforts, the event brought together more than 50 participants: school teachers, social workers, public officials and academics listened to two lectures and engaged in a lively debate. The debate was moderated by Benjamin Opratko, member of the Austrian MEET team.
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Thursday, 24th and Friday 25th May at the Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology of the University of Florence was hold the conference Media Education in the global society. Experiences and transfer of good practices. The event aimed to take stock of the role of media education in the training of the 21st century citizen, with particular reference to the challenges of globalization, interculturalism and socio-cultural inclusion. The aim was to evaluate the pedagogical potential of an area of educational research that can provide analytical tools useful for a more critical reading of communication on hot topics such as immigration, cohabitation, post-colonial citizenship.
INACH, the International Network against Cyber Hate, is a foundation under Dutch law, with a board as governing unit. INACH has its office/secretariat in Amsterdam. INACH has more than 20 members around the world who consist of organizations handling complaints concerning discrimination on Internet who are able to work independently from the network (self-supporting). INACH’s new booklet about online hate is online available. This booklet will enable readers to have a better understanding of INACHs work, vision, mission and goal.
Cyberbullying, fake news, hate speech – these terms have long since become part of everyday school life. Online, rumors and hate messages spread faster than ever, opinions are sold as facts and behind it is an algorithm that is hard to see through. For the schools, online media are another challenge and usually they are left alone. The MEET discussion event analyzes the mechanisms of lies and hate in the net and presents concrete tools and strategies for media education in schools.
Digital civil courage?
In Italy the MEET’s classroom activities started in November 2017 at the secondary school Gramsci-Keynes in the town of Prato. The researcher/media educator Francesco Fabbro along with 3 teachers (Luca Cappelli, Giuseppe Consentino and Silvia Ermini) and 18 students (age 16-18) tested the Learning Scenario “Challenge violence and play your rights”. Students firstly engaged in media analysis oriented activities focusing in particular on the representation of violence and migrants in videogames and movies. In the second part of the Learning Scenario, students created some fictional game stories inspired to real episodes where human rights were violated or contested. Afterward, they developed different aspects of their game stories (e.g. definition of game play and characters) through which struggles for equal rights were represented and advocated.
“Das NETTZ” is the networking site against Hate Speech in German-speaking countries. “Das NETTZ” promotes digital moral courage and advocates a positive debate and opinion culture on the web. The NETTZ wants to build and support actors of civil society in their work as a “community of objections”. On the site you will find initiatives, which are committed against Hate Speech.
Katja Friedrich, How “Multi-Culti Can Work” – Media Education for Intercultural Tolerance, Journal THEMA JUGEND No. 1/2018: „Wir können Frieden“ (We can make peace)