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● BUILDING RESILIENCE AND INFORMATIONAL RESISTANCE

Knowing that most Internet users will be confronted with disinformation sooner or later, one of the
strategies for managing such a risk after the fact is to build/strengthen their resilience, especially in
relation to refutation.

Learning resilience?
Resilience thinking as a way to use conflicting information and turn it into knowledge and behaviour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZstWiDkkds

▪ THE RESILIENCE DEBATE

Very fashionable, the concept of resilience is also the object of various kinds of criticism, both on the
basis of its substance (what if what does not destroy us does not make us stronger?) and for political
reasons (what if resilience is a very practical weapon for not tackling the political nature of the
problems?). By focusing on the "victims" and putting the responsibility for psychological solutions in their
hands, we would forget about those responsible and the systemic causes, as well as the social and
political measures to be taken to prevent these evils.

Views in favour of resilience:

Building your resilience. We all face trauma, adversity and other stresses. Here’s a roadmap for adapting to life-
changing situations, and emerging even stronger than before, proposed by the American Psychological
Association.

https://www.apa.org/topics/resilience

Views opposed to resilience:

The problems with resilience are often seen as a risk of shifting responsibility from the political sphere to
the personal individual sphere
https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/the-problems-with-resilience-thinking

For an academic analysis, Magali Reghezza-Zitt, Samuel Rufat, Géraldine Djament-Tran, Antoine
Le Blanc et Serge Lhomme, « What Resilience Is Not: Uses and Abuses », Cybergeo : European Journal
of Geography 2012 https://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/25554

▪ RESISTING HARMFUL CONTENT AND ITS IMPACTS: the role of MIL!

- Understand the current manufacturing of information
- Control your information by setting up your accounts, choosing your friends, protecting your data, etc.
- Learn to identify systems of manipulation and their nature
- Rely on professional fact checkers, verification tools
- Reach out to your community
- Report

But also
- mobilize for a better regulation of the contents, more moderation
- Position yourself as an actor for quality information and avoid the posture of consumer-victim (report,
publish, select and share, comment)
- Understand the public/collective nature of online media and act on the internet as a citizen and not
just a private person
- Establish strong links with your community, rely on a selection of reliable information sources and
verification tools to be able to react in case of need.

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