A peacebuilding approach to addressing social media threats

Schirch, Lisa

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“….)”? (Vergès, 2022, p. 4) This effort would thus require a multi-stakeholder collaboration (Bailey & Liliefeldt, 2021; Schirch, 2021), where governments, platforms, and users promote cultures and structures of peace in the digital environment.…”

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Ecologies of Violence on Social Media: An Exploration of Practices, Contexts, and Grammars of Online Harm

Morales

2023

Social Media + Society

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Violence is an almost ubiquitous phenomenon in contemporary digital environments. In this context, there is a growing need to understand how violence is enacted and represented on social media. Drawing from a case study where Colombian young adults discussed the violence they interacted with on their everyday uses of digital platforms, this article explores how violence on social media is experienced and understood by users. Findings emphasize the need to look at violence on digital platforms as a multifaceted, fluid, overlapping, and interconnected phenomenon. In light of these results, I suggest framing current harmful practices as ecologies of violence. To better explore these ecologies, I outline three specific areas that highlight how violence is transformed on social media: practices, contexts, and grammars. Overall, this study emphasizes the need to recognize and address the complexity of violence in social media—a necessary step toward building cultures of peace in and outside of our digital environments.

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Ecologies of Violence on Social Media: An Exploration of Practices, Contexts, and Grammars of Online Harm

Morales

2023

Social Media + Society

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“…Efforts to validate the local knowledge in peacebuilding efforts have also culminated into what is commonly referred to as the "local-turn" in contemporary peacebuilding literature (Belloni, 2012;Paffenholz, 2015). Furthermore, rapidly evolving "digital peacebuilding" ecosystems have altered how people experience, define, and engage with conflict and peacebuilding efforts (Hirblinger, 2023;Schirch, 2020Schirch, /2021. For instance, the literature on "PeaceTech" shows how peace-oriented platforms draw from Big Data, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality, etc., to process information that is intended to prevent or mitigate conflicts (Alavi et al, 2022;Firchow et al, 2017).…”

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Rethinking the role of community media in conflict transformation and peacebuilding

Levesque,

Onguny

2023

Peace & Change

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Whereas much has been written about the role community media plays in peacebuilding, emphasis is often put on participatory media models as key determinants of peace or conflict sustainability. Little is known, however, about the conditions under which such media increase or impede peace efforts due to the complex nature of conflict. Moreover, how, when, and by whom such media can be tailored to offer favorable conditions for peacebuilding at the community level remain largely unanswered questions. This article draws from Howard's (An Operational Framework for Media and Peacebuilding, IMPACS, 2002) typology of media interventions, issue‐framing framework, and conflict transformation approach to probe the prospects of community media agency in peacebuilding at the community level. It argues that the way conflict narratives are produced, negotiated, and consumed across time and space is what provides individuals or groups with incentives for conflict or trade‐offs for peace irrespective of the stage at which a given conflict manifests itself. Overall, the reflections presented are conceptual and are intended to generate theoretical and methodological discussions around the role of community media in conflict transformation and peacebuilding at the community level.

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A peacebuilding approach to addressing social media threats

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Ecologies of Violence on Social Media: An Exploration of Practices, Contexts, and Grammars of Online Harm

Ecologies of Violence on Social Media: An Exploration of Practices, Contexts, and Grammars of Online Harm

Rethinking the role of community media in conflict transformation and peacebuilding

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