Workshops

How and when to share: strategies for digital literacy of educators based on international experiences

If young people are digital natives and are always up to date on the latest new developments. What can educators contribute (in a broad sense) if a priori they have fewer abilities, skills and expertise than students? What type of positions, strategies and tools can they use for promoting non-discrimination, especially in social networks? How can they identify the main areas for implementing their initiatives? In what way can they support the work of others, including the European educational community, which has already followed this path? How to lose our fear of the digital gap? How to work and reflect without having adapted educational spaces?

Experience of the project I:CUD Internet: creatively unveiling discrimination shows that international cooperation and work among equals efficiently paves the way for educational work. The workshop will show several practical cases for tackling digital literacy, provide suitable materials for use (an educational kit against online discrimination) and illustrate these hypotheses with practical exercises geared towards action.

Facilitators: Juan Pedregosa, CEPS Social Projects and Gigi Guizzo, CEPS Social Projects.

Building networks of activists against hate: the potential of joint action in interacting with abusers

The aim behind this workshop is to develop ideas for generating, organising and coordinating networks of activists that can tackle harassment on the grounds of discrimination, looking for empowerment and the creation of cross-cutting solidarity links between the various groups attacked.

Facilitator: Alberto Martín-Pérez Rodríguez, training manager, FELGTB – Spanish Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals and Andrea Momoitio, journalist and coordinator of Píkara Magazine.3

Resisting and dismantling Islamophobic speech on social networks

Islamophobia is a power structure and form of violence that finds an amplification in social networks that rewards the simplest, most binary and confrontational speech to the detriment of better positioned reflections and categorical minds. If the model’s structure is not destroyed with its tools, how can we tackle Islamophobia in networks without copying its methods, without using the facility of simplification and binarism? How do we do this, bearing in mind the place of the declaration, whether or not we are Muslims, and how does this place change speech possibilities? In what way can a narrative be generated that is not simply reactive to major Islamophobic declarations? And, likewise, how do we tackle online attacks? How do we protect others and ourselves? How do we put up a resistance on the network as well as a collective experience?

Facilitators: Brigitte Vasallo, intercultural mediator and feminist, anti-racist activist and Daniel Ahmed, activist in the field of sexual diversity and gender in Islam.

Fighting hate speech in the social networks through raised awareness: how to reach the unconvinced

As part of the strategies for raising awareness in social networks on stereotypes and rumours that foster discrimination against and disrespect towards certain groups, this workshop will be aimed at proposing and considering new strategies for messages to reach the circles of the unconvinced.

Facilitator: Dani de Torres, director of the Spanish Network of Intercultural Cities (RECI) and adviser to the European Council.