National Project

Susana Costa presents IN[The Hate Booth] at the Francisco Fernandes Lopes School Group.

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The installation-game “IN[The Hate Booth]” is located at the Francisco Fernandes Lopes School Group in Olhão, where it will be experienced by various classes of Basic and Secondary Education, with the mediation of a pedagogical itinerary and with the support of the School Library of that group.

IN[The Hate Booth] is an immersive space that invites the participant to delve into its luminous environment. Inside the booth, it is possible to find the feed of a web page that appears to have been discontinued, with the only access corresponding to the post-mortem. Through an interactive fiction challenge, the player is invited to discover what happened and what led the authors of the page to close it down. Developed as part of Susana Costa’s doctoral research and the PROPS – Interactive Narratives Propose Pluralistic Discourse project, of which the researcher is a part, IN[The Hate Booth] proposes an approach rooted in digital media art to, on one hand, analyze the effect of counter-narratives on raising awareness among children and young people about the phenomena of cyberbullying, hate speech, and online harassment, and on the other hand, to develop tools and strategies that allow the target audience of this research to assume an active and conscious role in dealing with this issue.