Challenges of polarization and social fragmentation in the contemporary world 

This round table open to the public for dissemination called "Challenges of polarization and social fragmentation in the contemporary world" is oriented to share and discuss some of the results of the DigiPatch Project, as well as plan their transfer to society.

The DigiPatch main objective is to investigate the role of digitalization in social and cultural transformation, i.e., a process of moving parts of society from more open, permeable, flexible networks, to more closed, bounded, rigid “little boxes'' – a patchwork society. The project takes the 3N model as a starting point and background, and analyzes how some variables of interest, such as the loss of personal meaning, closed social environments (echo chambers) or exclusionary narratives, seasoned with certain key elements of our highly digitalized societies, can encourage the formation of extremist ‘micro-identities’ or those anchored in conspiracy beliefs, which tend to distrust institutions and form a more divided and polarized society.

Content of the round table:

Presentation of the Digipatch project, main objectives, and relevant preliminary results: Malgorzata Kossowska, leader of the DigiPatch Project (Full professor in psychology, head of the Social Psychology Unit and Center for Social Cognitive Studies in the Institute of Psychology at Jagiellonian University).

Honour invited speaker: Javier Ruipérez Canales (Strategic Communications Manager of the EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation and Director of Research and Projects at The Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies). Preseentation of the initiatives around convivence from the EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation.

Application of the DigiPatch project related to the EU knowledge Hub on Prevention in Radicalisation: Possibles way to adapt the Strategic Prevention Plan of Radicalization to social fragmentation based on the DigiPatch results

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