The words "refugees," "migrants," "boat people" and "asylum seekers" have dominated headlines in recent days, but those terms can obscure who we are really talking about: humans.
Agency, a socially conscious creative studio with offices in Sydney and New York, have built "rehumanize," a browser extension that aims to add some empathy to our news feeds.
Calling itself "The Chrome extension for humanity," the tweak replaces terms like "queue jumpers" with a simple "human."
"When you see the image of Aylan Kurdi on the beach you know that it's time to do whatever we can," Murray Bunton, executive director at Agency, told Campaign Brief. "We are all tired of reading articles about 'queue-jumpers,' 'boat-people,' or worse, 'illegals.' With a simple browser extension, we have the ability to change the conversation quite literally. To re-humanise our news feeds."
Install it, and you'll immediately find the Internet a much kinder place to be.