This document discusses resilience and social media use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia. It notes that social media can help build communities and increase awareness of important issues, but it also exposes users to online racism. While social media allows Indigenous people to express their identity and feel part of an online community, many respondents reported seeing examples of racism towards Indigenous people on social media platforms. The document poses the question of whether the positive impacts of social media outweigh the negative for these communities.

1. Resilience & Social Media
With @tiddas4tiddas

2. @tiddas4tiddas:
Who are we?

3. 1. Social Media: The Good
○ Building Communities/Support
Systems
○ Increasing Awareness
○ Tough Conversations
2. Social Media: The Bad & The Ugly
○ Managing trolls and online racism
○ Resilience
3. Discussion Activity
○ Social Media: Does the GOOD
outweigh the BAD?
TODAY’S SESSION...

4. PERFECT DATE GAME

5. 1. The Good

6. 60% of the Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander population uses
Facebook.
For non-Aboriginal Australia, that number is only 42%.

7. According to a 2014 study, 73% of surveyed
respondents stated that social media helped
them express their identity, while 81%
indicated that they felt a sense of being a
member of an Indigenous community online
via social media.

8. 2. The Bad & The Ugly

9. 88% of respondents said they had seen
examples of racism towards Indigenous
people on social media.
Most common was the doubting of identity
and the use of memes depicting Indigenous
people in a derogatory manner.

10. Dealing with trolls...
Ignore Them/Don’t Provide a Platform
Make Let Light of the Situation
Unmask Them and Educate
Use Moderators and Online Tools
Create a Unified Community

11. 3.Discussion Activity
Does the GOOD outweigh
the BAD in social media?
?

12. THANKS FOR COMING