Don’t Give Up the Fight – Digital Activism in Times of COVID-19
COVID-19 was a huge test for campaigners, and their stories of creative resistance show us that it is always possible to fight.
Creative Engagement on Instagram
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…
Crafting Headlines for Change: The Art and Science of Petition Titles
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…
Interactive Campaigning: Action Against Hate Speech
By getting queer people themselves to read anonymous comments on camera, this Russian campaign powerfully shows just how hurtful hate speech is.
"Kill Them With Kindness" tactic : Racist YouTube Videos Get a Refugee Pre-Roll in Germany
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.
Fake News, Real Damage – How Fake News Been Has Used Against LGBT People
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…
Fight Back! Why LGBTI Organisations Have to Join the Fight Against Fake News
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…
How Social Media Took Us From Tahrir Square to Donald Trump
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…
Stop Preaching the Converted: Talking Feminism in Online Video Gaming!
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: Celebrate Blade Runner’s Year of the Replicant !
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…