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Beyond the Algorithm
challenging the manosphere
Can we use social media to stop hate?
How might we redesign digital spaces to minimise misogyny and associated social harms?
Beyond the Algorithm pilots theatre-based critical empathy training with young people through an adapted form of Forum Theatre, an interactive theatre style that invites audience members to intervene in a set script to change the story.
The play investigates what motivates people to engage in online misogyny and how we can disrupt its spread of hate and bigotry while supporting victim/survivors.
Join us for what is simultaneously an investigation, an intervention, and a way of generating insights into how young people believe the issue can be addressed.
Developed in collaboration with actors from Canberra Youth Theatre through workshops in the lead-up to this performance. For students, community members, educators and researchers.
Facilitators:
Dr Vivian Gerrand - ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
Robin Davidson - Theatre Director and Forum Theatre specialist
Street Two | Unreserved | 90 Minutes
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Beyond the Algorithm
challenging the manosphere
Wellspring: Enquiry and Exchange
Wednesday 22 July, 5:30pm
Tickets: Free, booking essential
Wellspring: Enquiry and Exchange
Bringing campus to the community, Wellspring is an exciting series of immersive events that explore new depths of cultural enquiry and exchange. A collaboration between The Street Theatre and the ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Wellspring invites Canberra’s curious to experience the inexhaustible source of human creativity and communication.
Acknowledgment:
[The production draws on research undertaken for the ARC-funded 'Anti-women online movements: pathways and patterns of participation’ Discovery Project (DP220100736), led by researchers Josh Roose, Michael Flood, Debbie Ging, Vivian Gerrand and Ben Hemmings.]
