IG has become the favorite way to share among teens and young adults, beating out Facebook and Twitter. In the US, young people 18-29 years old make up half of the users on Instagram. What makes Instagram different from social media networks such as Facebook or Twitter is the way people use it. Instagrammers frequently…
An interesting article was published on change.org on how to edit effective titles for campaigns. In essence, the article draws from the experience of 164.000 petitions launched in English over the past few years. Insights include that : Tone and first words are important. The analysis dissects the impact of the use of semantics that are…
By getting queer people themselves to read anonymous comments on camera, this Russian campaign powerfully shows just how hurtful hate speech is.
Before getting to the xenophobic speeches of a racist campaigner, viewers would have to watch a 30-second \”ad\” from a refugee refuting his arguments.
Think about the first time you heard the term ‘fake news’ – most likely it was uttered by Donald Trump, during his run for President in 2016. But although the term was new to most people even two years ago, the concept is painfully familiar to the LGBT community; after all, many grew up hearing…
Last year, posters appeared across Oregon ‘promoting’ Central Oregon Pride. Featuring a well-known drag performer, 10-year-old Desmond Napoles, the posters claimed that the pride event was sponsored by the North American Man/Love Boy Association. It was of course disinformation. A targeted campaign to try and link pride and sexual predators who prey on children. 2018…
This article appeared in MIT Technological Review – It is so fascinating that we share it with the LGBTI community As the Arab Spring convulsed the Middle East in 2011 and authoritarian leaders toppled one after another, I traveled the region to try to understand the role that technology was playing. I chatted with protesters in…
This article which first appeared on creativetimesreport may seem irrelevant at first sight, but it’s actually a VERY IMPORTANT one! It is a great example of someone who went out of her “comfort zone” and stopped preaching the converted. A strategy at the heart of all good campaigning work. Her example, and the lessons she…
2019 is a blessed year for science fiction fans. It is a crucial year for Neo-Tokyo, in Katsuhiro Otomo’s cult manga Akira. But it is also and especially the year that Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is set in. (Adapted from an Article published in LeMonde) We’re in 2019 reality. Los Angeles is not yet completely…
Is humanity controlled by alien lizards? – how fake news and robots influence us from within our own social circles. Even these days, there are still 12% of Americans to believe humanity is controlled by alien lizards who took human shape. Replace “alien lizards” with “bots”, and the laughable conspiracy theory might not be that…