Articles by Amira Elghawaby
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How to Stand Up to Online Trolls – and Profit – with Humour
Amira Elghawaby – The Globe and Mail,
4 Sep 2017
We have observed that humorous counter-speech can shift the dynamics of communication, de-escalate conflict, and draw much more attention to a message than it would otherwise garner. The authors point to a social media campaign that included pasting pictures of rubber ducks onto images of Daesh fighters, and to sarcastic responses to their calls for violence.
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