“Real men don’t hate women”: Twitter rape threats and group identity

Hardaker, Claire; McGlashan, M. L.

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2015.11.005

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“…In recent years, sexual harassment and abuse of women on social media and other online public spaces has become increasingly visible. A growing body of research has examined misogynistic behaviour in such spaces as video games (Salter & Blodgett, 2012), Twitter (Hardaker & McGlashan, 2016), online communities of Men's Rights Activists and Pick-Up Artists (Banet-Weisner & Miltner, 2016), news comment sections (Garcı´a-Favaro & Gill, 2016) and ''lad'' social media accounts like UniLad (Phipps & Young, 2015). A number of researchers have detected a patterned quality to the kinds of abuse women receive online.…”

Section: Online Misogyny and Gendered Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

“I can be your Tinder nightmare”: Harassment and misogyny in the online sexual marketplace

Thompson

2018

Feminism & Psychology

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On Instagram, the accounts Bye Felipe and Tinder Nightmares feature screen-grabbed messages of sexist abuse and harassment women have received from men on dating apps. This paper presents a discursive analysis of 526 posts from these Instagrams. Utilising a psychosocial and feminist poststructuralist perspective, it examines how harassing messages reproduce certain gendered discourses and (hetero)sexual scripts, and analyses how harassers attempt to position themselves and the feminine subject in interaction. The analysis presents two themes, termed the ''not hot enough'' discourse and the ''missing discourse of consent'', which are unpacked to reveal a patriarchal logic in which a woman's constructed ''worth'' in the online sexual marketplace resides in her beauty and sexual propriety. Occurring in response to women's exercise of choice and to (real or imagined) sexual rejection, it is argued these are disciplinary discourses that attempt to (re)position women and femininity as sexually subordinate to masculinity and men. This paper makes a novel contribution to a growing body of feminist work on online harassment and misogyny. It also considers the implications for feminist theorising on the link between postfeminism and contemporary forms of sexism, and ends with some reflections on strategies of feminist resistance.

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Section: Online Misogyny and Gendered Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

“I can be your Tinder nightmare”: Harassment and misogyny in the online sexual marketplace

Thompson

2018

Feminism & Psychology

117

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“…For example, combining social psychology theories on identity and media theories might provide a better understanding of the mobilizing potential of social identity through media use (e.g., Chan, 2016). Linguistic, socio-semiotic and discourse studies might offer insight to explore the dynamic phases of the collective identity process and their interplay with collective action (e.g., Beraldo & Galan-Paez, 2013;Hardaker & McGlashan, 2016). The combination of social movement and organizational communication theories might allow simultaneously taking dynamic collective identity processes, collective action organizational structures and CMC into account (e.g., Kavada, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, combining machine-learning techniques and traditional social science methods might help to deal with the complexity of large datasets from social media (e.g., Jensen & Bang, 2013). As individual, social and collective identities are often expressed in texts and language, quantitative methods might be used to detect emerging discourses and subsequently qualitative methods for more in-depth analysis (e.g., Hardaker & McGlashan, 2016). Data triangulation combining network analysis, quantitative (e.g.…”

Section: Adopt Multidisciplinary Mixed-methods Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Second, research on social and collective identities finds that the openness of CMC gives voice to political (Choi & Park, 2014;Han, 2015) or ethnic groups (Gabriel, 2016;Ribke & Bourdon, 2015;Sanderson, Frederick, & Stocz, 2016) and to online communities (women: Hardaker & McGlashan, 2016;Tanczer, 2015;lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT): Reyes Soriano, 2014) that are struggling to achieve freedom of identity expression in a context of social change.…”

Section: T4: Cmc Does Not Support Identity Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fourth, CMC offers opportunities to hide identity, which favors anonymity. Being anonymous in cyberspace is a powerful, effective strategy to ensure the success of activists' goals during protests and revolutions (Gamie, 2012) without running the risk of being publicly identified with the movement (Hardaker & McGlashan, 2016). A frequently cited case study on this topic is the radical tech-group Anonymous (Gamie, 2012;Leung, 2013).…”

Section: T4: Cmc Does Not Support Identity Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Trolling CNN and Fox News on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

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2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Online trolling, disinformation, and deception are posing an existential threat to democracy. Informed by the online disinhibition theory and research on the ideological asymmetry between Democrats and Republicans, we examined how the extent and style of trolling varies across social media platforms, by analyzing comments on posts by two media channels (CNN and Fox News) on three social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter). We found differences in the style and extent of trolling across platforms and between media channels, with more trolling on articles posted by Fox News than by CNN, and a different trolling style on Twitter than Facebook or Instagram. Our study demonstrates a delicate balance between the socio‐technical factors that are enabling and hindering trolling. While some platforms and government agencies believe in removing anonymity to regulate online harm, this paper makes a significant contribution against that view.

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“Real men don’t hate women”: Twitter rape threats and group identity

Cited by 150 publications

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“I can be your Tinder nightmare”: Harassment and misogyny in the online sexual marketplace

“I can be your Tinder nightmare”: Harassment and misogyny in the online sexual marketplace

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