Saturday, 15 April 2023
Use the Shushmoji app to learn anti chat harassment tactics and end anti-social conversations with WhatsApp chat stickers
Stop silly troll! chat sticker example | Stop sinner! chat sticker example | |
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The Shushmoji app also offers twenty anti-chat harassment tactics cards. These fall under four strategies for stopping trolls: ignore, report, respond and prevent. Install the app to scroll through all twenty cards on your phone or tablet.
Ignore strategy index card | Ignore tactic card |
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Why develop a Shushmoji app?
Being silent echoes the conventional advice, Do Not Feed the Trolls (DNFTT). It reflects how there are many downsides to communicating with harassers, since they are likely to be mentally unstable (Barnes, 2018). Online trolls score low in the Big Five Personality scores of agreeability and conscientiousness, but score high in Dark Tetrad traits of- narcissism, Machiavellianism, sub-clinical psychopathy and/or everyday sadism. Attempting rational engagement with perpetrators of cyber harassment is likely to provoke retaliatory attacks in excess of the original abuse. This may be further escalated via circling cyber vultures and mobs. Such amplification is common to unmoderated platforms where destructive, hostile and bigoted behaviour is rewarded with likes and re-shares.
Create With Cape Town's end-of-conversation stickers were designed to support targets' ability to disengage from cyberbullies. Unlike the DNFTT tactic, it does not mute their voice and right-of-reply.
These chat stickers can help end chats-gone-bad, whilst showing trolls and their audiences what one thinks of their behaviour.
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Alternately, hashtag #Shushmoji and #CreateWithCapeTown and give a shout-out to our Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter accounts. Cheers!
Friday, 26 August 2022
Want emoji stickers to end #WhatsApp chats with #cyberbullies? The #Shushmoji app on #Android is here!
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Shushmoji app briefing presentation to Younglings' interns and mobile dev leadership
Written for interns at Younglings who expressed an interest in working on the Shushmoji app for Android and Apple
I recently presented on the background to Create With's Shushmoji app to Younglings. Its interns will be working to complete an Android version this year and an Apple version for launch in 2022.
The hyperlinks from the presentation are shared below for ease-of-access:
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Travis Noakes' research at www.travisnoakes.co.za/p/researcher.html
Create With at createwith.net/
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Anti-trolling graphics to end abusive conversations at samultimodality.wordpress.com/2018/11/26/anti-trolling-graphics-to-end-abusive-conversations-how-to-whack-a-troll/
Strategies against cyber harassment at http://bit.ly/2D8qv0k