Digital Echoes: Navigating Social Media's Labyrinth of Prejudices and Cultural Stereotypes

Digital Echoes: Navigating Social Media's Labyrinth of Prejudices and Cultural Stereotypes

Sara Mohammed Aldous, Ghaith Ahmed Ismail
Copyright: © 2024 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-2057-0.ch005
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Abstract

Social media has grown in importance in the current digital era and is becoming a vital fabric for fusing many viewpoints, cultures, and voices. However, interconnection also makes a maze of biases that reverberate from the digital sphere and preconceptions based on cultural variables visible. The current chapter, “Digital Echoes: Navigating Social Media's Labyrinth of Prejudices and Cultural Stereotypes,” examines the intricate and shifting nature of online spaces where prejudice and stereotypes persist and have an impact on people's lives as well as communities. Such exporting is not only solitary; it is also linked to historical narratives and migratory movements, since they are important in shaping views that are inherently modern. The present essay discusses social media, prejudices, and cultural stereotypes in detail and in relevance to migrants.
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In the present digital age social media has become significant and tapestry for intertwining together perspectives, cultures and diversified voices. Although the interconnectedness also exposes the stereotypes based on cultural factors and as well as labyrinth of prejudices which echo’s from the digital realm (Adams-Grigorieff, 2023). The present topic of the essay that is Digital Echoes: Navigating Social Media's Labyrinth of Prejudices and Cultural Stereotypes explores the complexity and dynamics nature of spaces that take place online in which biasness as well as stereotypes persists and it is impacting communities and the individuals. such exportation is not just only isolated but also is interconnected with the narratives based on history, migratory movements as they also play a crucial role in creating attitudes which is contemporary in nature.

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Migratory movements

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Based on history migratory movements has created the experience of the humans to modern diasporas form the ancient migrations. In the 21st century the forced displacements were evolved as a result of which environmental crisis, geopolitical conflicts and economic disparities enhanced migration on a scale which was unprecedented (Carter, 2021). It is crucial to understand complexities of issues that are contemporary from the historical context which is significant. Presently in the modern era different set of challenges are faced which intersects with the digital age based on the impact of stereotypes and biasness (Abdallah & Alkhrabsheh, 2019). Additionally, the international law which is landmark known as Geneva Convention plays an important role towards forced migrants by shaping responses. The preset essay examines the relevance of such convention to survival migration in which individuals were compelled to more to some other place due to existential threats. According to such threats sights have been included in the essay in relevance to ethical and legal dimensions of challenges related contemporary migratory (Menking, Erickson, & Pratt, 2019). Such perspective is significant in knowing the nuances of the challenges discussed in the sphere of digitalization (Jandigulov et al., 2023)

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Geneva convention

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(History, 2023)

Based on such challenges and to mitigate the same there is a need for imperative for intercultural education and transformative global. Education is the key tool which helps in dismantling prejudices and stereotypes, fostering and promoting digital space as well as empathy. By nurturing the mindset based on globalization that promotes diversity and historical roots based on migratory movements can strive towards digitalization which echoes with diversity rather than prejudices which are continuously increasing.

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