Explore your Echo
Explore your Echo is a media arts learning and evaluation situation (LES) on social media and online hate, developed in collaboration with Someone. This pedagogical guide allows teachers to explore questions pertaining to social media and online hate with their high school students.
The guide is divided into three sections: the first section is for secondary school teachers, the second section is for high school students and the last section is for university professors who would like to expand on certain concepts with student-teachers. It is available on both French and English.
By Emma June Huebner and Eva Roy
It goes without saying that social media platforms play an integral part in the lives of teenagers today and that a large amount of their interactions take place on these platforms (Dennan et al., 2020). This solicits an urgent need to tackle cyberbullying issues that inevitably arise. One way to respond to online hate is to raise awareness through art. Many artists create artwork to address pressing social problems or to represent the change they would like to see in the world. Students and teachers who wish to use the Explore Your Echo resource will be invited to familiarize themselves with certain theoretical notions regarding hate speech, to take part in different activities that raise awareness and analyze these issues, and to create artistic content in response to online hate in the form of a short-form video.
This artistic film project, inspired by the visual practices of TikTok videos and Instagram Reels, aims to help educate the community about what hate is and what it can do, and how to counter it today.
Resources
The guide is divided into three sections: the first section is for secondary school teachers, the second section is for high school students and the last section is for university professors who would like to expand on certain concepts with student-teachers. It is available on both French and English.
For secondary school Teachers
For secondary school Teachers
For High School Students
For High School Students
For University Professors
For University Professors
Example student video
News
Project Someone offers new round of workshops to schools confronting cyberbullying
November 27, 2023
Navigating Social Media and Online Hate with Explore your Echo
October 13, 2022
Attacked: Hate in the Digital Age
In December 2017, an incident on a Vancouver train made international headlines after a man attacked a young Muslim woman, verbally and physically assaulting her until a bystander intervened. Noor Fadel, whose family moved to Canada from Iraq when she was a child, is featured in a new documentary short, where she discusses the attack but also its aftermath, when she was subjected to further hate and harassment on social media sites.
Attacked: Hate in the Digital Age, produced by Project Someone in partnership with La Ruelle Films and directed by Léa Clermont-Dion, GianLuca Della Montagna and Guylaine Maroist, follows up with Noor Fadel years after the attack and showcases how she was able to find resilience in the face of adversity, meet hate with grace, and reclaim her voice. Now an artist and motivational speaker, Fadel provides an eloquent and undaunted voice speaking out against online hate speech.
The short film is available with either English or French captions on Vimeo