Web Hate

 

Web Love

Bessemerbiblioteket

vs.

 

 

We all share a responsibility for how we act online.

 

From the school cafeterias Facebook page:

Matthew: I Think that the school lunch is effing horrible, it's too salty!

Mia: I Think it is perfectly seasoned.

Matthew: You are insane! Besides I didn't ask you so sod off!

Mia: It's an open comment section, I can say what I like. Your taste buds must be defective.

Matthew: Bloody Goody Two Shoes!

...or?

Matthew: I Think that the school lunch is too salty, yuk!

Mia: I Think it is perfectly seasoned

Matthew: I hear you, I however disagree

Mia: Maybe we can ask for individual salt shakers so we can all season our food as much as we like?

Matthew: Good idea!

How to express dissent without being offensive:

 

Don't swear

Don't get personal

 

Use respectful phrases such as:

 

I understand your Point of view...however

I am afraid I have to disagree with you...

I must take issue with that...

I hear you, but I am not so sure about that...

I respectfully disagree...

On the contrary...

"A web for all?"

A climate of bullying online has an effect on all of us that are online!

 

Certain Groups are being silenced and that is not OK.

 

Women and girls

Politician

Journalists

 

are the targets

 

Discuss!

Racism and sexism online

Three out of ten teenagers have been subjected to racial harassement online. The offender is almost always unknown.

 

Source: Friends nätrapport 2016

Four out of ten young women have been sexually harassaed online. The offender is almost always known by the victim.

Web Bullying vs. Web Hate

What is the difference?

Web Bullying: When you are offended or threathened by persons that you know or who are in your vicinity.

They have to be systematic and may also happen IRL.

 

 

Web Hate: When you are offended or threathened by persons that are unknown to you. Often instigated by a public announcement/post/comment.

Rarely crosses over to real Life.

 

 

Source: surfalugnt.se

To slander somebody
online is a felony.

 

 

To slander somebody online and in person is illegal. In Sweden we call this "kränka någons ära". It goes beyond a tease or simple name calling.

 

This is punishable by hefty fines

and jail sentences

Källa: polisen.se

"You can give Kalle a beer and he will sleep with you..."

= Slander with malicious intent

"Kalle is an ugly drunk..."

= the right to express an opinion (although mean)

What does the law state?

Källa: Friends nätrapport 2016

Bildkälla: Aftonbladet

What does these persons have in common?

Joel Ankar

Katerina Janouch

Your future employer

will google you!

How you act online will have consequences IRL.

"Distance" makes us meaner

Science shows that distance from the person we are communicating with makes us less compassionate. That applies to all kinds of situations where we can't make eye-contact with the person we are speaking to.  

Before the Internet, when we got frustrated, we posted an angry  letter to our local news paper. Then it was reviewed by the papers editor before it was published. Today, when we post stuff online we have to be our own editors and make sure we don't break any laws or offend people. We have to be responsible.

The Internet has made communications faster

Source: "Näthat är normalt" by Susanne Johansson 2015

Are there any benefits with online anonymity?

Confidentiality

We can confide in f.i. journalists without having to have our name published in the paper

 

Support

We can talk to people who lend support anonymously without having to reveal our name

 

Report without retribution

We can report suspicious or criminal activity anonymously and not have to worry that we will be

threatened or injured because of that.

 

The web can be a source of good!

#jagärhär

Arabic spring

Source for education

Entertainment

Breaks isolation

Saves lives

Connects people

Funny cat videos

How can YOU be a better person online?

Act like a mensch online and offline...if you cannot say something to a person's face, don't write it on their Facebook

 

Speak out! - Show moral courage and speak out if you see somebody being slandered online

 

Read! - Reading enhances our emphatic abilities

 

Write! - as a method for reflection rather than reaction

"The Right to be Forgotten"

Contact the person who posted something mean and ask them to retract their post.

 

Contact the responsible social media site and ask for the content to be removed.

 

"The right to be forgotten"

Källa. krankt.se

Think before you write if

you are upset.

 

Check the source behind the post you want to share

 

Having the freedom of speech is NOT the freedom to offend.

 

In fact - we have a lot of restrictions to the freedom of speech...

Help!

If you have been the victim of web bullying or hate there are places you can turn to for help.

Remember to :

Take a screen dump

Do not delete anything

Contact the police

 

If you get bullied at school they have to act to stop the harassment so

turn to your teacher or any adult you trust at school.

 

do.se

datainspektionen.se

krankt.se

friends.se