The European project BRICKS aims to combat the spread of hate speech against migrants and minorities through media education and active involvement of users and producers of content on the web. Instead of focusing only on the potential negative consequences of youth uses of the Internet, the goal is to explore the opportunities for an […]
This article was published on a Comboni magazine on December 2015 and it is focused on hate speech and its spread on the Internet. Where is the limit between personal opinion, freedom of expression and hate speech? What is the position of journalists? How to react to this violence? These are some questions we’re trying to […]
Karim Metref, Italian journalist and trainer of Algerian origin, interviewed Federico Faloppa, Programme Director for Italian Studies at the University of Reading, specialized in the research about linguistic construction and representation of otherness. This article is focused on the European situation about migrants and refugees, on the role of the media and social networks in representing […]
This article was published on the Italian magazine “Prospettive Altre”, promoted by COSPE and ANSI, the National Association of Intercultural Journalists. The objective of Karim Metref, Italian journalist and trainer of Algerian origins, is to present some definitions about hate speech and related issues. Hate speech is speech that attacks a person or group on […]
This article was published on Illuminare le periferie del mondo on October 2015 and it focused on the spread of online hate speech against migrants and minorities and on the experience of Bricks project. This new website was promoted by a large group of Italian civil society organizations and aims at informing about news and facts […]
October promises to be a very busy month for Bricks Project. We will take part to 2 important events in Prato and Milan.
Banning the promoters of online hate speech and preventing broadcast thereof are not only acts of civic responsibility. For journalists, this is the fulfilment of a basic duty: providing readers, viewers and listeners with real facts. These words are the incipit of #nohatespeech campaign, launched by Associazione Carta di Roma, with the support of the European […]
On Sept. 2, 2015, social media managers, journalists and educational experts met in the Grimme Institute to exchange experiences on hate speech. They discussed the problems posed by discriminating and degrading hate comments on the Internet and possible (preventive) measures against this phenomenon. “When we started the project last November, we would never have thought […]
This year’s Global Media Forum (GMF) provided us with the perfect opportunity to present our BRICkS project and to collect statements concerning hate speech.
The second BRICkS meeting brought together Social Media Managers (SMMs) from the different partner countries. Every partner was asked to invite three professional SMMs to the conference organised by the Belgian partner Média Animation. Over the course of two days the participants presented their own experiences and problem-oriented solutions and discussed possible structures of online […]