"The SOMEONE (SOcial Media EducatiON Every day) ... consists of a web-based portal of multimedia materials aimed at preventing hate speech and building resilience towards radicalization that leads to violent extremism.The materials target youth, school and community members, public policy officials, as well as the broader public by focusing on the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills, and … Continue reading Project Someone
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Social Contagion & Tolerance
In 2007, The New England Journal of Medicine had a study on obesity and social networks that has results that said: "A person’s chances of becoming obese increased by 57% (95% confidence interval [CI], 6 to 123) if he or she had a friend who became obese in a given interval. Among pairs of adult … Continue reading Social Contagion & Tolerance
