Break Your Bubble: Recent Episodes
The North-South Centre
This episode answers the question, ‘How we can prompt innovative formats for intercultural dialogue online and offline to contain the spread of the infodemic?’
It looks at intercultural dialogue as a tool to combat mis- and disinformation online, as well as hate speech.
Guest : Miguel Silva ( Programme manager of the Global Education Programme of the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe )
More information on the #BreakYourBubble campaign : Lisbon Forum 2021 (coe.int)
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The views expressed in this podcast can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the Council of Europe.
Year of recording : 2021
This episode explores further the question of how we can stimulate the responses needed to combat more efficiently information viruses that hinder the capacity to have a common view on underlying problems - such as a pandemic, climate change, or the migration crisis. It also brings light to strategies that can be utilised to combat hate speech through the use of narratives.
Guests : Inga Riseth ( Works at the European Wergeland Centre in Oslo, focusing especially on how to strengthen young people’s self-efficacy through their learning programme at Utøya ) and Ernesto Nunes Chacon ( Founder / director of La Doble Tracción, an organisation in Costa Rica that educates young people using media. They develop innovative ways to fight against misinformation through gamification and using humour in producing news)
More information on the #BreakYourBubble campaign : Lisbon Forum 2021 (coe.int)
Transcript of this episode
Year of recording : 2021
The views expressed in this podcast can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the Council of Europe.
This episode looks at the work of grassroots organisations in protecting migrants and refugees, as one of the groups most affected by the infodemic. The episode will also try to highlight different approaches taken from different geographical, social, cultural and political contexts.
It illustrates a range of actions that could be taken in response to the question: If there is no immunity to the infodemic yet, how can we in the meantime better protect those who are disproportionally affected by it?
Guest : Chougher Maria Doughramajian ( President of Voices of Young Refugees in Europe (VYRE) and programme assistant at Pink Armenia. She has extensive experience as a youth worker and is a member of the Advisory Council on Youth of the Council of Europe, a Public Policy Fellow at Salzburg Global Seminar and a Peace Ambassador at One Young World.)
More information on the #BreakYourBubble campaign : Lisbon Forum 2021 (coe.int)
Transcript of this episode
Year of recording : 2021
The views expressed in this podcast can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the Council of Europe.
This episode explores the question: what knowledge, skills and tools are required in the 21st century to combat misinformation and disinformation online?
It brings light to the new emerging trends and techniques for activists engaged in fighting mis- and disinformation online.
Guest : Dan McQuillan (Lecturer in Creative & Social Computing in the Department of Computing. He has a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics, and prior to academia he worked as Amnesty International's Director of E-communications. His research focuses on the resonances between forms of computational operation and their specific social consequences, especially in relation to machine learning & AI. He is currently writing a book on 'AI for the People' for Bristol University Press Dr Dan McQuillan | Goldsmiths, University of London )
More information on the #BreakYourBubble campaign : Lisbon Forum 2021 (coe.int)
Transcript of the episode
Year of recording : 2021
The views expressed in this podcast can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the Council of Europe.