Over the past few months Rinova has worked closely with a multicultural group of young people. The participants came from different cultures and countries; Colombia, Peru, Poland, England, Spain, bringing them a rich mix of cultures and life experiences.
Our goal was to create a space where they could feel secure, private and motivated to participate doing activities for the project. Throughout the project, participants engaged with different activities that helped to create consciousness about online hate speech. They produced podcasts, designed t-shirts that reflected the value and the aim of the project, created engaging videos for social media aimed to increase consciousness, interviews with victims from bullying, research about actual situation in our area and questionnaires for local people.
- Bullying podcast
The activity was an in-person interview with a university students who suffered from bullying at high school. The interview was conducted face to face without audio or video recording to project the interviewee’s identity.
The main goal was to gather a real story of a person that suffered bullying to share with others. Converting this interview into a podcast, we could reach more people and create consciousness about bullying and hate speech.
The interview was focused on:
- How the victim realized she was suffering from bullying
- How bullying started and what type it was; verbal, physical or both)
- Mental health and daily life effects
- How she looked for help and advice others in similar situations
By doing this activity we believe that the impact of a real case is more powerful and allows people to identify themselves with the pain or struggles.
The lesson learned from this activity is that bullying can deeply affect someone’s mental health and life. Many people suffer in silence because they are scared or ashamed. A person who suffered bullying can remember the events in detail, which shows that a situation like this, can leave a significant mark on them
- Mapping of the area
The mapping was conducted in a neighbourhood of Malaga (Spain) called Huelin. The SGYG designed a questionnaire which objective was to find out what Huelin residents think about online hate and bullying. The questionnaires were divided into two parts: online hate and bullying.
The key information to gather was to find out if they had seen any cases of hate on social media or bullying and what kind, if they knew any local victim of cyberattacks/hate, if they know how to report abuse or they think people know how to report abuse, if they knew bullying cases at school and if it is a problem in the neighbourhood and if they believe there is enough support and resources for the victims and educator.
The questionnaires followed previous online research of the area to understand the context of the people living in the area, the history, economic growth, ageing of the population.
The lesson learned is that bullying and hate is present in the area and schools and families lack resources.
- Arte callejero
The aim of this activity was to discover the meaning behind the murals in many areas of Malaga but specially in our neighbourhood.
The SGYG conducted a research to write the script about inspiring murals around the area to create a video afterwards.
The SGYG learned that communities can come together to make their spaces nicer. These murals are often found in less-developed neighbourhoods, they are well respected and convey meaningful and inspiring messages for the society. They concluded this activity with a podcast with the rest of the script that contains more information about the murals and its meaning.
- Score a goal against hate speech
The initial idea came from the creation of t-shirts carrying messages against hate, which were meant to help to spread the project’s objectives beyond the activity itself. The team discussed how the best way to distribute the shirts and agreed that to mix football and beach would be a good combination.
The aim of the activity was to spread the message against hate speech.
The dynamics of the activity were simple but effective: each participant had three attempts to score goal, if they succeeded, they received a t-shirt and were invited to learn more about the HTIA project. SGYG could exchange ideas and opinions with young people, families, elderly people, about online hate speech and bullying.
Throughout direct interaction, shared experiences, less hate more love t-shirt, the SGYG managed to spread not only to spread awareness but also to inspire others to take part against online hate.
- Video-podcast #3
The idea for the video-podcast came up during a conversation about bullying, where of the SGYG member expressed a willingness to share their experience as a bullying victim in an interview. The aim was to create a long interview and record it as both video and podcast, to attract more viewers.
The interview questions focused on several areas; background, childhood and environment; identifying the situation; guilt phase; the importance of support; advice to reduce bullying and support victims; positive message full of hope for others in the same situation.
The video-podcast was uploaded on social media to reach as many people as possible.
“Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EACEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.” Project reference: 101131504″
