Webinar “How are boys radicalized on social media?”

Kaarel Lott, a Junior Research Fellow of Digital Media Studies at the University of Tartu, will use Netflix’s hit series Adolescence to illustrate what parents, teachers, and other people working with children can learn from this tragic story.

During the seminar, you will get answers to the following questions:

🔹 Who are manfluencers? What kind of role models are they and how do they engage boys and young men online? Where do they operate and why can they be harmful to boys and those around them?
🔹 What is the manosphere? What kinds of communities exist within it and why are they problematic?
🔹 How can you recognize red flags in a child’s behavior and internet use? What words, emojis, content creators, and other indicators should you pay attention to?
🔹 What should you do if a child believes in and spreads manosphere-related messages?

📅 Date: April 17
⌚ Time: 14.00 UTC / 16.00 CET
🎤 Speaker: Kaarel Lott, Junior Research Fellow of Digital Media Studies at the University of Tartu

Attending the webinar is free of charge. It will be broadcast live on Institute of Social Studies’ YouTube channel (@yti_tartu).

You can watch the webinar here.

The event is organized by the Baltic Engagement Centre for Combating Information Disorders (BECID). BECID is co-funded by the European Union and linked to the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO).