This workshop will provide journalists with tools to do three things: first, to identify vulnerabilities on their digital footprint that are often weaponised by trolls; second, to assess the potential impact of attacks on reporters; and finally, to adopt the best approach to combat attacks even with limited resources.
- You will learn to conduct a聽self-doxing聽exercise. You will put yourself in the attacker鈥檚 shoes and learn the techniques and tools they use to gather personal information on a target.
- You will learn how to聽analyse聽the type of online violence directed at you, giving you the power to decide on the best course of action.
- As a group, we will explore the most聽effective measures聽to minimise both the professional and emotional toll that smear campaigns and online hate take on you.
- Based on this analysis, you will build a聽step-by-step guide聽to react to online hate.
- There is no silver bullet against online hate and smear campaigns, especially when they are part of a coordinated disinformation campaign to create noise and discredit the work of journalists. Still, you will learn how to put your journalistic skills to work to combat the scourge of online harassment.
Languages: Training available both in English and Spanish
Duration: 90 min / 120 min
Questions? Please write to jluque(at)ipi.media
The workshop is structured in 4 modules:
- Module 1:听Introduction of the trainer, host and participants
- Module 2:听Self-doxing exercise. Analyse your own digital footprint and identify what personal information can be used by trolls against you.
- 惭辞诲耻濒别听3:听Build your own plan of action: We will explain the analytical approach to attacks so that journalists can respond rationally.
- 惭辞诲耻濒别听4:听Exchanging experience, building a network: We will put into practice the analytical approach through a case study.
Meet the trainer
Javier Luque聽is the Head of Digital Communications for the聽International Press Institute, where he coordinates advocacy and communication on IPI鈥檚 digital platforms. He has worked on the issue of online hate against journalists and media organisations since 2014. His research on this topic has been quoted by media worldwide such as The Guardian, The British Journalism Review and Bloomberg News. In 2018, he directed 鈥淎 Dark Place鈥�, his third film documentary, which premiered at Vienna鈥檚 This Human World film festival. He has also worked as a consultant for the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media for their project on Safety of Female Journalists Online. Before joining IPI, Javier worked as a broadcast and multimedia journalist for local and international news organisations.