{"id":14654,"date":"2025-03-17T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacificposts.com\/?p=14654"},"modified":"2025-03-17T23:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T14:47:28","slug":"challenging-online-disinformation-and-harmful-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacificposts.com\/?p=14654","title":{"rendered":"Challenging online disinformation and harmful narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A digital comic series co-designed by RMIT students, educators and violence prevention experts will challenge online disinformation and harmful narratives that particularly target young men.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Adventures of Soy Boy and Friends\u00a0follows a team of fictional characters as they navigate the challenges of university life, one algorithm and creditable source at a time.<\/p>\n<p>The designs were created by\u00a0RMIT graduate Millie\u00a0Ovenden, from a series of engagements with male students and experts.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmit.edu.au\/about\/our-values\/respect-rmit\/gender-equity-and-justice\/soy-boy\" target=\"_blank\">first edition of the comic<\/a>, coinciding with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmit.edu.au\/students\/student-life\/events\/annual\/respect-week\" target=\"_blank\">Respect at Uni Week<\/a>, explores real students\u2019 lived experience of the pressures that some young men feel when fake news becomes truth amongst their peers and in their classrooms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmit.edu.au\/news\/all-news\/2025\/mar\/soy-boy\" target=\"_blank\">Find out more about the project here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quote attributable to RMIT Prevention and Respect manager Shelley Hewson-Munro<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This project highlights how\u00a0students, educators and researchers are still working together to challenge how we care for one another, and how campuses can be safe and respectful places where we all can thrive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A digital comic series co-designed by RMIT students, educators and violence prevention experts will challenge online disinformation and harmful narratives that particularly target young men. The\u00a0Adventures of Soy Boy and Friends\u00a0follows a team of fictional characters as they navigate the challenges of university life, one algorithm and creditable source at a time. The designs were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14656,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pacificposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14655,"href":"https:\/\/pacificposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14654\/revisions\/14655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificposts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}