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[ UUID ] 69afa5c6-1b8c-49db-9e7e-e50d802190d3
[ Session Name ] Tackling manspreading on online conversations [ Primary Space ] Digital Inclusion
[ Submitter's Name ] Mariana Marcaletti [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Chicas Poderosas
[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] Mariana Marcaletti
[ Other Facilitator 2's Name ] María Belén Arce Terceros
What will happen in your session?
Manspreading also happens on the digital space, and prevents the voices of women from being heard in the online conversation. Our session will be about understanding this issue, coming up with ways to promote equality. Participants will play a musical chairs game, to see who is left out, and to test whether gender differences arise. Then each participant write down anonymous notes to describe how they felt. After that, we will explain the meaning of this experiment: this exercise hopes to illustrate and help better understand how women and men react differently in a group situation, their relationship to space and their control over it. Through a guided reflection, we will analyze how this real-life behaviours also happen online.
What is the goal or outcome of your session?
Based on reflections and on the public sharing of participants' real life and online experiencies, they will be asked to come up with ideas on how to make women more visible in digital spaces like Twitter, correlating what happened in the physical exercise to the situation in the digital space. Practical suggestions, depending on different actors, will be brought up. We will also kick off a thread asking participants to show publicly their examples, hoping to get some traction on the trending topic #StopGenderBiasOnline. At the end of the session, we will write a manifesto on how to avoid gender biases online so that we can share it with the bigger community on social media.
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Chairs Pencils/Pens Post its
Time needed
60 mins