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Landscape of Hate
By Vivek Venkatesh, Owen Chapman, Jason Wallin, Leticia Trandafir, Danji Buck-Moore, Annabelle Brault, Martin Lalonde, Jessie Beier and David Hall
Landscape of Hate is an improvised multimedia project with the objective of promoting and favouring the public voice in framing pluralistic dialogues about how we negotiate various forms of hate in our society.
Landscape of Hope
By Project Someone
Landscape of Hope is a unique, sample-based remixing project that magnifies youth narratives as they pertain to building resilience against racism, discrimination, prejudice and cyber bullying.
PROFILE
By Project Someone
A practical toolkit for community, police, health and education stakeholders in Canada to understand racial and social profiling and to find ways forward. This toolkit unpacks the problem of racial and social profiling in marginalized communities and considers some solutions. It was commissioned by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and developed by Project Someone at Concordia University.
Someone in the Community
By Vivek Venkatesh, Martin Lalonde, Marie-Pierre Labrie, Léah Snider, Kathryn Urbaniak and Peter Dimitrakopoulos
Project Someone works with community partners in various different contexts. Here are some examples which include working with youth in two different Montreal neighbourhoods, Montreal North (Montréal-Nord) and Mercier-Est.
Innovative Social Pedagogy
By Project Someone
This project mobilizes evidence-based principles in social pedagogy to promote critical digital literacy and empower marginalized communities.
Emotive Cyber Speech
By Ketra Schmitt and Liuai Hatter
The Emotive Cyber Speech application lets users search what the media and Twitter users are discussing on Twitter. See if certain terms, typically used in discriminating speech, are being mimicked across high profile accounts.
Digital Literacy in Lebanon
By Jihan Rabah, Randa Khalaf and Rawda Harb
Between April 2018 and April 2019 Project Someone partnered with five NGOs in Lebanon to design and deliver a series of workshops. The workshops focussed primarily on critical digital literacy and social pedagogy in an aim to build capacity and empower Lebanese communities.
From Hate to Hope
By Kathryn Urbaniak, Manasvini Narayana and Rawda Harb
“From Hate to Hope: Building Understanding and Resilience” is a trilingual, interactive, non-credit Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) developed by Project Someone.
Words in Context
By Kathryn Urbaniak, Manasvini Narayana, Rawda Harb, Simon Rodier, and Tieja Thomas
The Words in Context database was developed to critically analyze online discourses related to themes and topics of interest to Lebanon and its neighbours in 2018. The database also contains Canadian data gathered in 2016 and 2017. The project uses Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis to critically analyze recent hate discourse on popular online spaces such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Reddit.
Insights from Former Extremists
By Ryan Scrivens, Vivek Venkatesh and Maxime Bérubé
This project draws from the voices of those who have engaged in hatred, namely, former extremists, sharing their experiences and thoughts on how to build resilience against radicalization leading to violent extremism and hatred. Voices of law enforcement officials and community-based activists are also included in these discussions, all in an effort to develop multi-stakeholder, evidence-based strategies and learning material to combat violent extremism and hatred in Canada.
Visualizing Empathy
By Juan Carlos, Ehsan Akbari and Martin Lalonde
VisualizingEmpathy is an art curriculum that uses mobile social media to engage youth in conversations about empathy through a series of missions requiring participants to create and share personal digital productions on Flickr. By sharing representations of their lives on social media, participants give voice to their identities, cultures and values.
Think Critically!
By Nicole Fournier-Sylvester
Based on the insights of college and university teachers that have used www.newsactivist.com to facilitate conversations on social and political issues, this project provides concrete strategies, including exercises, rubrics and facilitation guidelines, for anyone looking to facilitate dialogue and develop the critical thinking skills of youth through online discussions.
Critical Analysis of Islamic State Social Media
By Jeff Podoshen, Vivek Venkatesh and Jihan Rabah
In this project, we lay bare the narrative and linguistic structures of Islamic State (IS) propaganda videos on social media. Our researchers conduct a critical analysis of how notions of utopia and dystopia are depicted by IS and compare these to historical Nazi propaganda. We also provide English and French translations of the monologues used in these videos to enable the broader public to better contextualize the post-apocalyptic rhetoric being used by the IS extremists.
Literary Peace Project
By Sarmista Das
This project provides a bank of pedagogical tools (such as suggested readings, suggested lesson ideas, video playlists, discussion questions, assignments, and worksheets) for college English teachers wishing to discuss extremism both in class and in online forums/blogs.
Learning to Hate: An Anti-Hate Comic Project
By Jason Wallin and Jessie Beier
These online graphic resources investigate the ways in which hate speech is experienced and negotiated in the contemporary lives of youth. Designed for preservice and practicing teachers, these mini-comics support lesson plans and catalyze classroom conversation on hate and hate speech.
The Dark Side of Social Media
By Adeela Arshad-Ayaz and Jihan Rabah
Our documentary narrates stories of individuals who have been victimized as a result of information propagated through social media. With the growth of social media, hateful messages have rapidly spread outwards from labeled ‘hate sites’ to seemingly non-harmful social interaction. The main objective of this research is to highlight the complexity and intersectionality involved in cyber violence when we talk about marginalized identities.
Adult Education & Online Hate
By Robert G. McGray and Tieja Thomas
This project aims to enhance Canadians’ abilities to respond to and engage with contentious socio-political issues impacting their communities. It leverages the power of connections between prominent adult education models and different social media platforms in order to foster informal learning spaces in which critical conversations about social structures and justice or injustice may be pursued.
Prejudice du Jour
By Tieja Thomas
This project examined how issues relating to Canadian citizenship, identity, and cultural belonging are understood and discussed among Canadian citizens within online environments. Specifically, it used reddit conversations relating to Quebec's proposed Charter of Values in order to understand how such socio-political phenomena as hate, violence, and oppression are manifested and negotiated online.
The Online Other
By Ayaz Naseem and Michelle Savard
This project examines how the discourses of terrorism, national security, and war against terror condition the ways in which members of civil society understand those of Arab descent, middle easterners and Muslims.
Children on Social Media
By Sandra Chang-Kredl, Dan Mamlok and Stephanie Kozak
This project examines the growing phenomenon of children, under 13, using social media platforms for social and communication purposes. We focus on the teacher's perspective through questionnaire responses from 57 elementary school teachers. We also conduct a preliminary exploration of the Facebook practices of three children.
Theatrics of Hate Speech
By Vivek Venkatesh
This project explores how hate speech is produced, diffused and consumed in extreme metal music scenes. Through a combination of interviews, as well as analyses of online forums and social media feeds, we explore some of the tensions between freedom of speech, liberties in artistic expression and hateful speech as an alibi to exhibit misanthropy.
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