Thankyou so much for agreeing to test out and comment on our 6 Digital Harms Guidelines for Australian minority communities.
There are six guidelines or “Fact Sheets” to review. Each one should take about 2-3 minutes to read, and about 3-5 minutes to fill out a very brief survey of just 10 questions.
You can do these in stages, e.g., one guideline and the corresponding survey one one day, the next on a different day, etc., following the links below.
About the guidelines
It is increasingly recognised that members of minority communities in Australia are subject to higher rates of digital harms, such as online abuse, harassment, hate speech, scams, and other problematic digital content. This is particularly the case for those who have emigrated from elsewhere, gender- and sexuality-diverse people, people living with a disability and sometimes also older people.
Digital harms have a serious impact on the health and wellbeing of some users, and we are working with governments and stakeholders to help reduce the negative impact and to inform people from our communities about some of the new terminology, the risks, and the options for reporting and self-care.
Testing our guidelines on those who help, support, and advocate for members of our communities is our next step in trying to make sure.
How to help
Please open/download the draft Fact Sheet by clicking on the title on the right side, and, once read, please click the survey link immediately below the title to answer a few very short questions or to provide any comment.
We ask for a few details in the surveys, but everything you provide will of course remain completely confidential to the team at the RMIT Digital Ethnography Research Centre.
If you have any queries, please feel free to contact Professor Rob Cover: rob.cover@rmit.edu.au
Thanks so much for your support!
RMIT Digital Hostility and Disinformation Lab (@ The Digital Ethnography Research Centre) 