Mediated Misogynoir: Intersecting Race and Gender in Online Harassment

Madden, Stephanie; Janoske, Melissa; Winkler, Rowena Briones; Edgar, Amanda Nell

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“…One of the limitations of scholarship on online violence is a tendency toward singlecategory analysis (Hackworth 2018;Madden et al 2018): studies of gender in online harassment tend to focus on gender alone, neglecting to consider how GBV intersects with other identity categories. This is especially common in large research studies focused on gendered harassment that mention race, class, or other identity markers but do not adequately examine the influence of these categories on women's multilayered experiences online.…”

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“…Though limited, there has been some attention to Black women's experiences online, partially owing to the increasing online activism carried out by women of color (see Loza 2014). For example, in dialogue with Moya Bailey's work on misogynoir (Bailey and Trudy 2018), Madden et al (2018) offer the concept of "mediated misogynoir" to describe anti-Black misogynist online harassment that "implicates systems of power that disadvantage Black women offline as well" (p. 86). Their case study of online attacks against actress Leslie Jones illustrates the underlying class dynamics at play in racist and sexist harassment online.…”

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Gender and Technology: A rights-based and intersectional analysis of key trends

Ceia¹,

Nothwehr²,

Wagner³

2021

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This report employs an intersectional feminist framework to identify and analyze key trends related to gender and technology. It aims to provide a holistic picture of how gender and technology are embedded in and influenced by a myriad of intersecting issues and challenges that complicate how ICT for development (ICT4D) initiatives concretely impact women’s lives. Based on synthesized research, the report provides recommendations for relevant stakeholders on how to approach the field of international development using technology as a tool for social good in ways that benefit the most marginalized members of our global community.

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Section: Finding Supportive Communities Onlinementioning

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Section: Finding Supportive Communities Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

Gender and Technology: A rights-based and intersectional analysis of key trends

Ceia¹,

Nothwehr²,

Wagner³

2021

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“…This type of harassment may include name-calling, insults, threats, nonconsensual image sharing, and publicizing private information, but is distinguished from other forms of harassment because it happens at scale. As a result, experiences of online harassment, including networked harassment (Madden, Janoske, Winkler, & Edgar, 2018;Sobieraj, 2018), rarely map to legal and technical models of harassment, which typically presume a dyadic model in which one person repeatedly engages in unwanted contact with another (Citron, 2014;Pater, Kim, Mynatt, & Fiesler, 2016). In contrast, there may be hundreds or even thousands of participants in networked harassment campaigns, each of whom may only contact the victim once or twice.…”

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“We Dissect Stupidity and Respond to It”: Response Videos and Networked Harassment on YouTube

Lewis

Marwick

Partin

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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Over the past decade YouTube “response videos” in which a user offers counterarguments to a video uploaded by another user have become popular among political creators. While creators often frame response videos as debates, those targeted assert that they function as vehicles for harassment from the creator and their networked audience. Platform policies, which base moderation decisions on individual pieces of content rather than the relationship between videos and audience behavior, may therefore fail to address networked harassment. We analyze the relationship between amplification and harassment through qualitative content analysis of 15 response videos. We argue that response videos often provide a blueprint for harassment that shows both why the target is wrong and why harassment would be justified. Creators use argumentative tactics to portray themselves as defenders of enlightened public discourse and their targets as irrational and immoral. This positioning is misleading, given that creators interpellate the viewer as part of a networked audience with shared moral values that the target violates. Our analysis also finds that networked audiences act on that blueprint through the social affordances of YouTube, which we frame as harassment affordances. We argue that YouTube’s current policies are insufficient for addressing harassment that relies on amplification and networked audiences.

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“…While online harassment is neither entirely anonymous nor focused exclusively on women, anonymous trolling practices have persistently been connected to misogynist and anti-feminist behavior [1] [2] [3]. Women are more likely to be harassed online [4], which is even more true for women of color and LGBTQ women [5]. More broadly, feminist politics frequently call for transparency in terms of institutional operations and governance [6].…”

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A Queer and Feminist Defense of Being Anonymous Online

Lingel¹

2021

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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From the earliest days of digital communities, online abuse has been connected to anonymity. While concerns around the impact of anonymity, particularly for women, people of color and LGBTQ folks, is legitimate, this paper argues that a flat rejection of digital anonymity is problematic, foreclosing certain forms of queer and feminist praxis. To make this case, I turn to the platform politics of Craigslist. Using Craigslist as a case study, I discuss the persistent stigma attached to online anonymity, before addressing specific tactics of online anonymity associated with queer and feminist values of privacy and mutual aid. Drawing on accounts of Craigslist users who saw anonymity as a protective form of control over their personal information, I outline ways in which anonymity is not solely an enabler for misogyny and homophobia, and can instead (or rather, also) be a subversive tool for self-expression and intimacy.

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Mediated Misogynoir: Intersecting Race and Gender in Online Harassment

Cited by 39 publications

References 12 publications

Gender and Technology: A rights-based and intersectional analysis of key trends

Gender and Technology: A rights-based and intersectional analysis of key trends

“We Dissect Stupidity and Respond to It”: Response Videos and Networked Harassment on YouTube

A Queer and Feminist Defense of Being Anonymous Online

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