Active Learning Experience On

Digital well-being & safety - Online hate

Como se eu fosse

Haters gonna hate, your well-being is in your hands.

Synopsis

The internet can give a sense of distancing and protection, allowing for hate to expand at a faster rate than ever.

Being attacked can be tough on one's well-being, increasing feelings of stress, anxiety, depression and isolation. And let's be honest, if you're on social media today you have probably come in contact with hate at some point.

Get the tools needed for emotional and technical coping that can challenge the way you use social media and get you empowered to diminish hate.

Start Experience Now

Overview

The story behind the story

Victims of online hate may show low self-esteem; feel lonely or isolated, suffer from depression and sleeping disorders, increased stress, anxiety and feelings of insecurity; as well as diminished levels of trust (SELMA, 2019; Saha & De Choudhury, 2019; Wachs et al, 2022).

Online hate is a real problem and reports involving hate crimes have increased more and more each year in Brazil.

With the support of UNICEF Venture Fund in collaboration with End Violence Against Children we decided to tackle this phenomenon combining an engaging story with a personalized journey of evidence-based strategies for emotional and technical coping.

In partnership with UNICEF Brazil, Weni, Viração Educomunicação, Redes Cordiais and members of the Ashoka Young Changemakers, as well as psychologists, scriptwriters and a youth committee that represented their peers' voices, we co-created an immersive therapeutic learning experience to challenge hate and stop its expansion.

Como Se Eu Fosse is partially available as an Open Content solution to share with the world and for others to join our fight by using, remixing, adapting and sharing this effective solution that could potentially decrease the expansion of hate and its impact on youth's well-being.

Access Open Content here

In collaboration with

Goals & Results

Main goal

We want to raise awareness about the harmful consequences of hate and minimize its impact on well-being, by enhancing positive affect and providing effective strategies to cope with cyberhate.

Specific goals

01
Deliver valuable information about hate speech online and its impact on mental health.
02
Encourage the adoption of technical-coping strategies to protect young people from coming in contact or becoming victims of hate speech online.
03
Designing effective digital interventions to address unmet needs around the topic.

Having gone through this experience, I think I will deal with this kind of situation better in the future, helping my mental health. [...] By remembering a past situation in my head, it made me understand that I already have some of these skills, and there are others I need to work on. It made me understand that other people are going through the same things as I go through, that sometimes I invalidate some of my feelings and I shouldn't be doing that.female, 19 years old, Osasco SP

I thought hate speech was normal and after this experience I realized that it is actually hard and difficult. And there are ways to deal with it, I didn't know that.female, 17 year old, Pernambuco PE

It made me realize that sometimes we get really combative when we get in touch with hate speech and end up forgetting to take care of ourselves. [...] We dive more and more into the debate and we get more stressed. When we actually should be taking care of ourselves so we don't get that stressed and deal with it rationally.male, 28 years old, São Paulo SP

I feel excited, but with a slight “aftertaste” from the chatstory, you know? I think that the construction of the narrative is really powerful, it really shocked me. Presenting these themes this way is really effective.male, 20 years old, São Paulo

I think that Talk2U has remarkable characteristics. It approaches delicates matters in a very human and impactful way.female, 38 years old, Porto Alegre RS

Having gone through this experience, I think I will deal with this kind of situation better in the future, helping my mental health. [...] By remembering a past situation in my head, it made me understand that I already have some of these skills, and there are others I need to work on. It made me understand that other people are going through the same things as I go through, that sometimes I invalidate some of my feelings and I shouldn't be doing that.female, 19 years old, Osasco SP

I thought hate speech was normal and after this experience I realized that it is actually hard and difficult. And there are ways to deal with it, I didn't know that.female, 17 year old, Pernambuco PE

It made me realize that sometimes we get really combative when we get in touch with hate speech and end up forgetting to take care of ourselves. [...] We dive more and more into the debate and we get more stressed. When we actually should be taking care of ourselves so we don't get that stressed and deal with it rationally.male, 28 years old, São Paulo SP

I feel excited, but with a slight “aftertaste” from the chatstory, you know? I think that the construction of the narrative is really powerful, it really shocked me. Presenting these themes this way is really effective.male, 20 years old, São Paulo

I think that Talk2U has remarkable characteristics. It approaches delicates matters in a very human and impactful way.female, 38 years old, Porto Alegre RS

Having gone through this experience, I think I will deal with this kind of situation better in the future, helping my mental health. [...] By remembering a past situation in my head, it made me understand that I already have some of these skills, and there are others I need to work on. It made me understand that other people are going through the same things as I go through, that sometimes I invalidate some of my feelings and I shouldn't be doing that.female, 19 years old, Osasco SP

I thought hate speech was normal and after this experience I realized that it is actually hard and difficult. And there are ways to deal with it, I didn't know that.female, 17 year old, Pernambuco PE

It made me realize that sometimes we get really combative when we get in touch with hate speech and end up forgetting to take care of ourselves. [...] We dive more and more into the debate and we get more stressed. When we actually should be taking care of ourselves so we don't get that stressed and deal with it rationally.male, 28 years old, São Paulo SP

I feel excited, but with a slight “aftertaste” from the chatstory, you know? I think that the construction of the narrative is really powerful, it really shocked me. Presenting these themes this way is really effective.male, 20 years old, São Paulo

I think that Talk2U has remarkable characteristics. It approaches delicates matters in a very human and impactful way.female, 38 years old, Porto Alegre RS