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Week 5

Once you start looking critically at hate speech, a shocking discovery comes: it’s everywhere! So, what now? In this week, we explore strategies and tactics to respond and propose alternatives to hate speech. These will be grounded in a human rights framework and we shall look at examples coming from various fields. Together we will be exploring the strong and weak points of each and preparing ourselves further to take action.

Week 4

What comes to your mind when you hear the term ‘hate speech’? Racism, discrimination, freedom of expression, political debate, identity, hate crime … these were the first that came to our mind. This week explores the place of hate speech in our current societies and how it intertwines with racism, discrimination, hate crime and narratives of various crimes. The effects of hate speech will be discussed further in terms of democratic health and human rights.

Week 3

Hate speech regulations across Europe Regulating hate speech is often, on one hand, seen as a controversial issue by the advocates of freedom of speech, whereas on the other hand, the regulation is also used as a censoring tool by advocates of authoritarianism. How can we draw the line between the limits of both? In week 3 we will explore the European legislation on regulating hate speech and how this is implemented in specific local contexts. This will enable participants to explore their own national legislations vis-a-vis hate speech and its implementation.

Week 2

Human rights are minimum standards agreed upon at the international level to ensure everyone a life of equality in dignity. Human rights also serve as a framework of negotiation. Hate speech instances are either human rights violation or contributing factors to human rights violations. In this week, we will explore what human rights are, the principles and values underpinning them, how they are protected at European level and how they apply to the internet, and are evolving with us. Further, we will discuss how to apply a human rights perspective to cases of hate speech.

Week 1

In the first week, you will learn about hate speech and how it is defined by various European human rights organizations such as the ‘Council of Europe’ or the ‘European Commission against Racism’. You will also explore what the causes and consequences are of hate speech and how they are interconnected. Additionally, you will take a look at the various forms of hate speech and how hate speech is being packed for a wider public using mixed-media channels. Last but not least, you will get an understanding of how to assess cases of hate speech using a number of criteria.

Countering Hate Speech 2018

This Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange will take participants on an interactive, action-oriented journey on countering hate speech in Europe.

What are the various forms hate speech is taking? What are the causes and consequences of hate speech at the individual and societal level? How is hate speech regulated in Europe? And what can be done to fight hate? Based on a human rights perspective, this course explores these questions and the actions that can be undertaken to effectively counter hate and promote open societies.

Video Lectures

This lecture series for the programme: “NEWCOMERS AND NATIONALISM: Exploring the challenge of belonging in Europe” is presented by academics and practitioners and complimented by views of the public. We invite you to watch these videos, form your own perspectives and explore and share your ideas with your fellow students.

This programme is divided into 10 weekly themes that begins with setting the scene for migration into Europe and moves into exploration of the challenges of identity, belonging and integration. The speakers invite you to reconsider accepted truths about migration and reassess the policy and politics that surround this poignant issue. In a globalised, interconnected world, what does belonging to a nation really mean and equally what is the role and experience of being the ‘other’? We conclude the video lectures with a look to what the future holds for nationalism and newcomers in Europe – are we moving into a world of superdiversity?!

This opening week sets the context for the recent migration into Europe, giving a historical perspective of migration in and out of Europe and an introduction to the terms: migrant, asylum seeker and refugee.

Video Lectures

On this page, you will find all video lectures part of ‘Gender In/Equality in Media and Journalism’. Every week, this page will be updated with new video lectures for the following week.

Prior to your online group meeting each week, you are expected to watch the week’s videos and then respond to at least one lecture with a comment, observation or question. SUBMIT HERE >>>

Video lecture comments should be 1-2 paragraphs in length. Your response shouldn’t be a summary, but instead should demonstrate you grappling with the concepts, questions, and implications in the lecture. Feel free to include questions of your own that you would like to discuss further with your group

For details see the COURSE OUTLINE HERE >>>

*Please note that the views presented in the video lectures are those of the individual speakers and do not represent those of Sharing Perspectives Foundation.

A weekly breakdown of topics

Week 1 – Gender and representation

• How the course works 
• Gender representation in the news
• Norms and Stereotypes 
• Who is allowed to speak, on what, and when?
• It’s Not just Numbers
• Why do we get what we get?

Week 2 – Women and Leadership 

• Women and leadership in media industries
• Research Trends And Patterns 
• Issues of Structure
• Issues of Culture
• Changing the Picture
  

Week 3 – Harassment and Intersectionality

• Defining the issues 
• Emerging digital age threats
• The abusive turn against women in media
• Beyond gender: intersectionality
  

Week 4 – Technological Innovation

• Gender and digital technologies
• Theoretical background
• Gender issues in data journalism
• Hacking the gender gap
  

Week 5 – Policy and Advocacy  

• Gender-sensitive media policies
• Advocating gender equality in and through the media – from the grassroots to transnational arenas
• Media and advocacy tools and initiatives
• Media as spaces of advocacy

Video Lectures

In this 10-week programme you will have the opportunity to learn from expert academics and practitioners from across Europe. The content of this programme is underpinned by the concept of European citizenship with the focus towards exploring and challenging European political, media and social responses to the refugee ‘crisis’ as well as going more deeply into understanding how these responses and attitudes affect European society and the integration and experiences of refugees/new-comers.

The video-lectures presented below will each week introduce a different topic in the context of what has been called the European refugee crisis. We hope you enjoy them!

Gender In/equality in Media and Journalism 2018

Learn and exchange about the gender-media relationship

This Interactive Open Online Course, “Gender In/equality in Media and Journalism”, invites participants to engage with learning resources and expert content developed by Advancing Gender Equality in Media Industries (AGEMI) while exchanging on different aspects of the gender-media relationship. Through virtual exchange, students and young media professionals will put their own experiences, values, and challenges in the forefront as a primary source for learning and application about gender equality in the media.  

Online Dialogue Facilitation

Facilitators are an essential part of the Sharing Perspectives Foundation’s Virtual Exchange activities. Are you interested in fostering meaningful and productive conversations around society’s most pressing issues? Or do you want to contribute to more positive relationships despite differences in backgrounds or opinions? Then, we welcome you to start your journey in becoming an Erasmus+  Virtual Exchange facilitator!

Your Role as a Facilitator
Facilitators foster the safe but challenging spaces that define the Sharing Perspectives Foundation’s learning environment. As a facilitator, you will be expected to utilize essential dialogic tools to elicit self-group awareness and enable mutual learning. You will arm participants with the tools to hold effective cross-cultural dialogues and enable them to apply these skills as 21st-century employees, students, and citizens.

Join us!
We are looking for both experienced and starting facilitators and offer various training opportunities. To join our team of facilitators, you will need to pass through the Advanced Facilitation Training. To be eligible to apply for the Advanced Training, you need to have some form of facilitation, dialogue or mediation experience. If you are new to this field, please enrol in our Introduction to Dialogue Facilitation training course first.

Both of the Advanced Training and Introduction to Dialogue Facilitation training, take place online.

Newcomers and Nationalism

Exploring the Challenges of Belonging in Europe

This “Newcomers and Nationalism: Exploring the Challenges of Belonging in Europe” interactive open online course invites refugees and non-refugee students from all over Europe and the Southern Mediterranean to learn together in an interactive, online classroom.

European Refuge/es: Cultivating Diversity Together

European Refuge/es is the first Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange programme implemented by the Sharing Perspectives Foundation. The aim of this programme is to bring together refugee and non-refugee youth across Europe to discuss what it means to be a citizen in Europe. Jointly they will develop a (counter) narrative to combat stigmatisation and foster mutual understanding.