‘I mean, in my opinion, I have it the worst, because I am white. I am male. I am heterosexual’: questioning the inclusivity of reconfigured hegemonic masculinities in a UK student online culture

Haslop, Craig; O'Rourke, Fiona

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2020.1792531

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“…HEFCE has now been replaced by the Office for Students. Some of the data presented in this article has been used in another published paper, which uses a different analytical perspective (see Haslop and O’Rourke, 2020).…”

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#NoSnowflakes: The toleration of harassment and an emergent gender-related digital divide, in a UK student online culture

Haslop

O'Rourke

Southern

2021

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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In recent years, some political commentators and mainstream media outlets in the United Kingdom have pejoratively labelled young people, especially university students, a ‘snowflake generation’ – a term used to mock their perceived intolerance and over-sensitivity (Fox, 2016; Gullis, 2017; Slater, 2016; Talbot, 2020). This article challenges this discourse by drawing on findings from a large-scale study ( N = 810) conducted on a university campus in England that critically examined student’s perceptions of and attitudes to different forms of online harassment, including abusive, offensive and harassing communications, using survey and interview data. Key findings indicate that online harassment is so pervasive in digitised spaces that it is often viewed as the ‘norm’ by the student population who appear willing to tolerate it, rather than take actions to address it, which challenges pejorative claims that they are intolerant and easily offended ‘snowflakes’. Respondents who identify as female and transgender are more likely to be targeted by online harassment. We argue that the label ‘snowflake generation’ is diverting attention away from student’s everyday experiences of online harassment and its adverse effects, particularly on women and transgendered people, which has the potential to create a gender-related digital divide (Jane, 2018). The implications of these findings for the higher education sector will be outlined.

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#NoSnowflakes: The toleration of harassment and an emergent gender-related digital divide, in a UK student online culture

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O'Rourke

Southern

2021

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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“…We demonstrated the main goal of gender-trolling is to disrupt dialogues through using repetitive, systematic techniques such as 'luring into pointless and time-consuming discussion' (Herring et al 2002: 372) which we identified as shitposting. Moreover, shitposting in this paper was identified as antifeminist and misogynist, as we also showed sarcastic humour was part of the affective spread of digital lad banter (Haslop and O'Rourke 2020;Ringrose et al 2021) with a goal of harassment to cancel women and feminists, and to silence their voices in online public space.…”

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Anti-feminist Misogynist Shitposting: The Challenges of Feminist Academics Navigating Toxic Twitter

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Cambazoglu²,

Berger-Correa³

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Gender in an Era of Post-Truth Populism

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“…The male teens in their study seemed to be completely unaware of how females in the peer group experienced receiving unsolicited dick pics. Similarly, Haslop and O’Rourke (2021) found that receiving unsolicited sexts is perceived to be a common practice between students at a university in England. The results indicate that female students are more likely to be targets of online sexual harassment, such as receiving unsolicited dick pics from male students.…”

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“Something You Just Don’t Talk About”: An Analysis of Teenage Boys’ Experiences of Non-Consensual Sexting in Lower Secondary School

Berndtsson

2021

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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The current study explores Swedish teenage boys’ exposure to non-consensual sexting, drawing on interviews with ninth-grade students, age 14 to 15 years, in a lower secondary school in northern Sweden. The results reveal that boys are exposed to unsolicited “dick pics,” unsolicited “female nudes” and non-consensual “explicit video” sharing via the social media platform Snapchat. However, traditional notions of heteronormativity and heterosexual masculinity prevented boys from talking about, understanding and handling experiences that may be identified as digital sexual harassment. Additionally, because of traditional gendered perceptions, students had difficulty categorizing victims and perpetrators of sexting. The study shows that there is a link between male vulnerability and male loneliness that can be manifested in both an individual and collective sense.

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‘I mean, in my opinion, I have it the worst, because I am white. I am male. I am heterosexual’: questioning the inclusivity of reconfigured hegemonic masculinities in a UK student online culture

Cited by 10 publications

References 24 publications

#NoSnowflakes: The toleration of harassment and an emergent gender-related digital divide, in a UK student online culture

#NoSnowflakes: The toleration of harassment and an emergent gender-related digital divide, in a UK student online culture

Anti-feminist Misogynist Shitposting: The Challenges of Feminist Academics Navigating Toxic Twitter

“Something You Just Don’t Talk About”: An Analysis of Teenage Boys’ Experiences of Non-Consensual Sexting in Lower Secondary School

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