4. 1. Social Media: The Good
○ Building Communities/Support
Systems
○ Increasing Awareness
○ Tough Conversations
2. Social Media: The Bad & The Ugly
○ Managing trolls and online racism
○ Resilience
3. Discussion Activity
○ Social Media: Does the GOOD
outweigh the BAD?
TODAY’S SESSION...
7. 60% of the Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander population uses
Facebook.
For non-Aboriginal Australia, that number is only 42%.
8. According to a 2014 study, 73% of surveyed
respondents stated that social media helped
them express their identity, while 81%
indicated that they felt a sense of being a
member of an Indigenous community online
via social media.
10. 88% of respondents said they had seen
examples of racism towards Indigenous
people on social media.
Most common was the doubting of identity
and the use of memes depicting Indigenous
people in a derogatory manner.
11. Dealing with trolls...
Ignore Them/Don’t Provide a Platform
Make Let Light of the Situation
Unmask Them and Educate
Use Moderators and Online Tools
Create a Unified Community
AGENDA:
INTRO: Who I am + ReachOut Vid
STRUCTURE OF SESSION:
Social Media: The Good (10min)
Building Communities/Support Systems
Increasing Awareness
Tough Conversations and change IRL
Social Media: The Bad & The Ugly
Managing trolls and online racism
Resilience
Open forum discussion about strategies to combat racists + get action IRL + general resilience…
3. Discussion Activity
Social Media: Does the GOOD outweigh the BAD?
Ask questions about social media use (what apps you use/how often you use it/whether you think it’s inherently positive or negative/whether you’ve read the comments on a public post about Invasion Day/gotten into an argument in the comment section/found a doob online/slid into someone’s DMs cause you realised they took their gf/bfs initial out of their insta bio/etc.)
What are good examples of social media use?
How/why can it be effective?
What do you use social media for?
Having tough conversations safely online.
Inspiring offline action?
We are the highest users of social media in the country!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4881203/