The CHANs (part 1)
Suffocating eco-chamber The anonymous website 4chan was created in 2003 by the American internet entrepreneur Christopher Poole. The website was originally fashioned on the “mold”
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Watch this Italian, killing thousands of people with his apparently delicious pizza!
Ok now that I have gained your attention, I have to admit that this article does not really contain the story of an Italian serial
Attention Economy: marketing in the Social Media Era
Time is the most precious resource that we own, everyone wants a piece of it: owners, friends, family and Facebook. Time is anyway a discussed
Peace for the people
“Professor Johan Galtung […] explained that the concept of peace can be categorized into two types: negative and positive. Negative peace is a simple absence
The attention machine
Attention has been defined as the “notice taken of someone or something; the regarding of someone or something as interesting or important”. An object, situation
Do you “tolerate” or “respect” the diversity?
“Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict.
Alternative Narrative: the right path to prevent hate speech
Nowadays, negative attitudes towards human being -such as hatred, violent extremism, racism and so on- are spreading more and more rapidly. This phenomenon is certainly
The implications of filter bubbles in social media and the impact on the society
Daily routine: We wake up in the morning, we have breakfast and we open our smartphones to receive daily news about the world surrounding us.
What is an Echo-Chamber and how does it affect people in social media?
Nowadays, simultaneously with the increasingly influential and widespread use of social media, it has been observed that a very contagious social phenomenon is infecting our
Echo chambers and terrorism: How an online ‘bubble’ of hate wounded an entire nation
It is Friday afternoon in Oslo (22 July 2011), the capital city of Norway. People are getting ready for the weekend: discussing dinner plans, packing
How “social media phenomena” influence social behavior: “pizzagate” conspiracy theory
Currently, in the IDare community, we are dealing with some phenomena which are occurring nowadays within social media and all kinds of online communication, and
Hyperleaders, politics in the social network era
The advent of the internet brings a significant shift in the leadership concept in modern democracies. With a big disillusion for the regular parties and
Filo Arabic fascism: “an enemy is a good as bread”
As we have seen in my (last article) illustrating Chomsky and Herman’s Propaganda Model theory, one of the filters media get sifted through is the
Do Unto Others
America’s mood was going through a period of change during the 60s. Televisions could be found by then in a growing number of American households.
Citizen Journalism
Citizen journalism is a modern take on journalism that has at its basis the involvement of public citizens, who, “play an active role in the
The dark web
The Internet is not just what we see, it mostly is what we do not see at all. It is estimated that while what we
Tor controversial history
Tor Project is a collaborative and open-source software that was born with the aim to create secure and anonymous connections for all the users looking
Sport as a social cohesion and redemption tool for the damned of the periphery
The most common image of Europe in the eyes of foreigners is one of the perfect and beautiful old country, filled with art, culture, and
The CHANs part 2: dogs whistles for sale
What are dog whistles, and what does a dog-training tool have to do with politics and the media? Generally speaking, these whistles emit an
Samajhdari, the community radio of the women
Nepal is a little rocky state embedded in the Mountain in the border between China and India. Well known for the historical city of Kathmandu.
Community Radio, a tool to reduce inequalities and pursue social justice
Before the advent of television and then on the internet, the first mass communication system was the radio. The first mass-media that lives until today
Many shaded of blackface
Do you recognize this scene? Probably not… so let me introduce you to the 1915 American movie “The Birth of a Nation”. The first movie
Doxxing
The term “doxxing” comes from the expression “dropping dox” as in “document dropping”, which was a revenge tactic used by internet users that maliciously release
Memes general introduction
Memes are the most popular internet content nowadays. How many of them do we laugh after every day scrolling our Facebook or Instagram feed? For
Memes from subculture to political weapons
As like we have seen before, in recent years memes turned to be a bigger phenomenon than they were in first place. Not only complex
Citizen journalism
“Do not hate the media, become the media” Citizen journalism is a phenomenon that is older as of the story of the web form itself. As
The upcoming challenge of climate migrants
When we talk about global warming, one of the problems we often omit to talk about is the topic of climate migrants. Global warming is
The propaganda model
Published in 1988, Chomsky and Herman’s book– Manufacturing Consent: The political economy of the mass media, is more up to date than ever. In the
Populism in the MENA region: old and new
Following up to my last article and as I am currently living in Jordan, I wanted to do some research and study on the populist phenomenon, and
Live long and prosper: star trek’s approach to positive peace
Is there a society where conflicts are always managed in a peaceful way, where humans can live without the struggle for food and water, where