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<article-title>Human Rights and Empathy Experience Beyond Social Media</article-title>
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<author>Janaina Pereira Antunes</author>

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<p>Professor Byung-Chul Han, on the book &#34;The Agony of Eros&#34;, states that &#34;the erosion of the Other&#34; is something we experience in all different areas of life. Considering his analysis related to this process (on the books &#34;The Agony of Eros&#34; and &#34;The Transparency Society&#34;), we would like to point out the fetishism of a narcisistic and ultra-individualistic society we live in, and the intense process of submitting alterity to mere consumption. Also according to Professor Han, we live in a society obsessed about becoming visible. On social media and searching websites, the Other is reduced to a mirror of one&#8217;s own subjectivity. In other words, the Other is a source of endorsement and consensus. These are crucial perspectives to be considered in Human Rights, since the capacity for empathy is a key element to Human Rights, according to Professor Lynn Hunt. This work aims to discuss the urgent need to strengthen actual interindividual interactions in Human Rights fields – beyond social media – as a way to reverse the vanish of the Other. For this goal, I try to combine the related theory with the work I have developed as a volunteer Human Rights teacher for eleven years in three different social programs focused on the inclusion of young people and adolescents who live in urban peripheries in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).</p>
<p><italic>Keywords: </italic>Human Rights, Social media, Empathy.</p>
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