Chapter 3: Peace-building through Art and Technology
Chapter three explores peacebuilding through art and technology, looking at how art and tech skills can be used to spread peace. Artivism combines the words “art” and “activism” and defines […]
Chapter 2: Social Media Use and Fact-Checking
Misinformation is rife online and has the potential to travel further, faster and sometimes deeper than the truth. Chapter two deals with social media use and fact-checking, as even small […]
Chapter 1: Social Media and Conflict
The first chapter, social media and conflict, provides a working definition of hate speech as “speech marked by hatred of someone else because of their membership in a group” Hate […]
Hate Speech mitigation tools _The #defyhatenow Social Media Hate Speech Mitigation Field Guide
Whether online or offline, hate speech poses a threat to peace, democracy, and human rights. #defyhatenow is committed to countering the hate speech, conflict rhetoric, and incitement to violence spread […]
#defyhatenow Field Guide in Pidgin English
On the 8th and 9th of April,2022 members of the Association of Broadcasters in Pidgin English, a widely spoken local language in Cameroon, translated the #defyhatenow short guide (A1 Poster […]
échange socio-éducatif sur la lutte contre la diffusion des discours haineux au Cameroun avec des jeunes du Wouri
Sans nul doute, on ne saurait omettre que la démocratisation des technologies du numérique s’est accompagnée de possibilités liées à l’accès à internet. Au début des années 2000 au Cameroun, […]