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The new issue of ROTURA journal is now available

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The latest issue of ROTURA – Revista de Comunicação, Cultura e Artes (Vol. 4, No. 1) by CIAC is now available online. This thematic dossier focuses on “Online Hate Speech: Impacts, Prevention, and Intervention”.

In the past decade, the increasing visibility and exposure of online hate speech have raised cultural, social, and academic concerns. This issue encompasses topics such as social, political, and religious polarization, the spread of hate ideologies, the promotion of violence through online propaganda and recruitment, and the impact on the well-being of those involved, with implications for building a pluralistic discourse in peaceful, just, and inclusive societies.

Aiming to deepen knowledge on the subject and explore effective ways to prevent and intervene in online hate speech, the scientific community has submitted studies and theoretical and empirical approaches contributing to the understanding of various topics.

In the article “Educación Mediática en Primaria: Intervención contra el odio en redes”, Laura Picazo Sánchez and Eva Tomás Fernández aim to design a media education program for primary education that fosters students’ critical attitudes towards screens, promoting healthy and positive use of ICT, the Internet, and social networks, specifically targeting the identification of online hate speech. In “Addressing Online Hate Speech: Nigeria’s National Framework and Regulations”, Tsokwa Maggai discusses Nigeria’s lack of a national communication policy framework, despite 63 years of independence. The article examines all four drafts of Nigeria’s national communication policy framework to contextualize online hate speech within these documents.

In “Strategies to protect children from violence in artificial intelligence”, Rosalía Urbano presents a study identifying strategies to mitigate violence in AI-generated content targeting minors. Eric Msughter Aondover’s “Media Outlook of Hate Speech in the 2015 and 2019 General Elections in Nigeria” studies the phenomenon of hate speech in Nigeria’s general elections, focusing on the Daily Trust, The Nation, and The Guardian newspapers.

Ana Helena Barbosa da Silva and Ángel Hernando Gómez published “O que está por trás dos “likes”? – Desenvolvimento da autoimagem em jovens youtubers”, analyzing the impacts of fame, audience, and the role of being a YouTuber on identity formation, self-esteem, and psychological well-being. Valdemir Soares dos Santos Neto’s “Content Creators and The Rise of Hate Speech between Brazilians and Portuguese on Digital Platforms: Analysis of an Experiment on a Social Network” examines the interaction between content creation on digital platforms concerning Brazilian immigration to Portugal and the proliferation of hate speech.

The dossier “Online Hate Speech: Impacts, Prevention, and Intervention” features various contributions in the Varia section: “No Meshs: O Blender como Ferramenta de Estudo e Resistência à Subversão do Espaço Público na web 2.0” by Carlos Miguel Gonçalves; “Image et Américanisation du monde dans Civilisation, comment nous sommes devenus américains de Régis Debray” by Brahim Mouradi; “Seeing ghosts: the queer creative act in I Remember the Crows” by Daniel Oliveira Silva and Ana Catarina dos Santos Pereira; “Digital Media-Art: Creation of experimental post-photographic visual artifacts” by Rennier Ligarretto Feo; “Latin American organizational communication in constant evolution” by Fernando Guerrero Maruri; “Medical terminology in television series. The case of House and The Good Doctor: a comparative study” by Beatriz Guerrero García; “University Teachers’ Vantage Points on ChatGPT Integration in Education: Upsides and Downsides” by Hawkar Omar Ali; “MY MONO NO AWARE – Um passeio sonoro interativo para a promoção de autorreconhecimento” by Ricardo Mestre, Rui d’Orey, and Pedro Alves da Veiga; “MAD Clarinet 3.0: Dialogues with my computer” by Rui Travasso and Luís Marques; “Sopralluoghi in Palestina per Il Vangelo secondo Matteo: el ensayo fílmico de confesión en Pasolini” by Jesús Ramé López.

Additionally, two essays and one interview/review were published: “O contracampo como movimento infinito: o legado fílmico e académico de Raquel Scheffer” by Caterina Cucinotta; “A presença (ou ausência) das mulheres artistas nos livros de História da Arte e seu impacto na abertura de espaços e oportunidades para mulheres hoje” by Débora Teixeira Falcão de Oliveira; and “O novo brinquedo de Edgar Pêra ou sobre a inquietude do cinema de ideias” by Teresa Lima.

Under the direction of CIAC coordinators Mirian Tavares and Bruno Mendes da Silva, this issue of Rotura was edited by researchers Anthony Brooks (Aalborg University), Ana Filipa Martins (CIAC, University of Algarve), Janice Richardson (Digital Citizenship Expert, Council of Europe), and Susana Costa (CIAC, University of Algarve, Open University).

The next issue, scheduled for release in September 2024, will have the theme of ‘Living Fiction’. The call for papers for the issue dedicated to the theme ‘Artistic Chronicles of the Modern Era: Exploring Contemporary Cultural Expressions’ is also open until 23 September 2023.

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