Online incivility or sexual harassment? Conceptualising women's experiences in the digital age

Megarry, Jessica

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2014.07.012

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“…Through combinations of verbal abuse, death threats, rape threats, and body shaming, online hate is oriented toward frightening, intimidating, and silencing the other (see Jessica Megarry 2014). 1 In thinking through the affective politics of fear, Sara Ahmed (2004, 68) asks the crucial question "which bodies fear which bodies?"…”

Section: Shame and Shaming In Hateful Online Encountersmentioning

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Shameless hags and tolerance whores: feminist resistance and the affective circuits of online hate

Sundén

Paasonen

2018

Feminist Media Studies

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Section: Shame and Shaming In Hateful Online Encountersmentioning

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Shameless hags and tolerance whores: feminist resistance and the affective circuits of online hate

Sundén

Paasonen

2018

Feminist Media Studies

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“…These accounts explore the real impact that online harassment can have on people's lives, and the gendered and raced aspects of harassment. In addition, alongside and often part of these two other shifts is the role of feminist and intersectional political discourse online, which has increasingly drawn attention to and problematized the distinction between trolls and others who would disrupt and harass participants in online spaces (see Megarry's (2014) discussion of the #men-callmethings campaign).…”

Section: Discursive Activism Cyberharassment and Safe Spaces: Situamentioning

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“Bitch I Said Hi”: The Bye Felipe Campaign and Discursive Activism in Mobile Dating Apps

Shaw

2016

Social Media + Society

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This article examines the Instagram page for Bye Felipe, a feminist campaign where people submit screenshots of examples of harassment and sexual entitlement from men on online dating sites such as OKCupid and apps such as Tinder. I frame the campaign as an example of feminist discursive activism. The site owners collect contributions and aggregate examples of particular discursive patterns in hook up apps, in order to make collective political claims, a strategy that Tomlinson calls "intensification." I address the existing literature on cyber-misogyny and online harassment, and also research on previous similar campaigns such as Fedoras of OKCupid to discuss shaming as a political practice. I then draw out the patterns and concepts invoked in interventions and resultant discussions on Bye Felipe, examining the themes of rejection, silence and who has the right to silence, rape culture, and gendered sexual entitlement. I identify the political claims being made through the rhetorical strategies described in the first part of the article. Drawing on the work of McCosker on trolling as provocation, I discuss the role of repetition and rehearsal in the practice of discursive politics. Finally, through a discursive analysis of responses to the posts on Instagram and Facebook over time, I explore the ongoing and difficult boundary work around what constitutes appropriate examples for the site, and the articulation of feminist claims and discourses.

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“…Other studies probed into the influence of sexist media information on women and children. For example, Megarry (2014) proposed that online sexual harassment excludes women's voice from the digital public sphere. Steyer (2014) found that traditional portrayals of women were still common in media, which would negatively affect children's development.…”

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Sexism in News: A Comparative Study on the Portray of Female and Male Politicians in <i>The New York Times</i>

Dai¹,

Xu²

2014

OJML

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Adopting a comparative and descriptive case study of The New York Times, this paper aims to probe into the gender discrimination against female politicians in the news media. The New York Times, one of the most authoritative newspapers in the world, can be a convincing representative to expose the universal ideologies like sexism in the news media. The authors attempt to analyze the sexism in news from two dimensions, namely, horizontal dimension (synchronic) and vertical dimension (diachronic). Horizontally, the news reports concerning Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, two rivals of the Democratic Party in the 2008 American presidential election, are chosen. By analyzing the difference in speech reporting, it can be seen that female politicians' speeches are more controlled and interfered. Vertically, based on Markedness Theory, we explore the development and change in formal marking, distributional marking and semantic marking. It is observable that in spite of the current subtle sexism hidden in news reports, news media have made great efforts in preventing gender discrimination over the past century and sexism against women in the current news reports appears to be less direct and more subtle compared with the past.

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Online incivility or sexual harassment? Conceptualising women's experiences in the digital age

Cited by 200 publications

References 26 publications

Shameless hags and tolerance whores: feminist resistance and the affective circuits of online hate

Shameless hags and tolerance whores: feminist resistance and the affective circuits of online hate

“Bitch I Said Hi”: The Bye Felipe Campaign and Discursive Activism in Mobile Dating Apps

Sexism in News: A Comparative Study on the Portray of Female and Male Politicians in <i>The New York Times</i>

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Online incivility or sexual harassment? Conceptualising women's experiences in the digital age

Cited by 200 publications

References 26 publications

Shameless hags and tolerance whores: feminist resistance and the affective circuits of online hate

Shameless hags and tolerance whores: feminist resistance and the affective circuits of online hate

“Bitch I Said Hi”: The Bye Felipe Campaign and Discursive Activism in Mobile Dating Apps

Sexism in News: A Comparative Study on the Portray of Female and Male Politicians in &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;/i&gt;

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