Shame transfigured: Slut-shaming from Rome to cyberspace

Webb, Lewis

doi:10.5210/fm.v20i4.5464

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“…One way of viewing the Brazilian outlook is female complicity in the system of patriarchy. Webb (2015) argues that the reason women have been complicit in slut-shaming of other women for their sexual behavior is that by doing so, social benefits are conferred upon them. Armstrong et al (2014) have argued that at times it is a matter of status where women participating in slut-shaming is a performance to ‘maintain their sexual privilege in high-status spaces’ (p. 134).…”

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Slumdog romance: Facebook love and digital privacy at the margins

Arora

Scheiber

2017

Media, Culture & Society

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Facebook has consolidated its position as the one-stop-shop for social activity among the poor in the global South. Sex, romance, and love are key motivations for mobile and Internet technology usage among this demographic, much like the West. Digital romance is a critical context through which we gain fresh perspectives on Internet governance for an emerging digital and globalizing public. Revenge porn, slut-shaming, and Internet romance scams are a common and growing malady worldwide. Focusing on how it manifests in diverse digital cultures will aid in the shaping of new Internet laws for a more inclusive cross-cultural public. In specific, this article examines how low-income youth in two of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations – Brazil and India – exercise and express their notions on digital privacy, surveillance, and trust through the lens of romance. This allows for a more thorough investigation of the relationship between sexuality, morality, and governance within the larger Facebook ecology. As Facebook becomes the dominant virtual public sphere for the world’s poor, we are compelled to ask whether inclusivity of the digital users comes at the price of diversity of digital platforms.

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Slumdog romance: Facebook love and digital privacy at the margins

Arora

Scheiber

2017

Media, Culture & Society

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“…Furthermore, future research should focus on cyber-bullying as cyberbullying entails elements of indirect aggression (Smith et al, 2013). Jackson et al (2013) found that females engage in cyberbullying at higher rates than males, often adopting indirect aggressive tactics such as 'slut shaming', whereby females are shamed for their perceived sexual availability is extremely prevalent in cyberspace, as well as in schools (Webb, 2015). Our paper suggests that females who are perceived to be dressed provocatively are indirectly aggressed against.…”

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confidence: 59%

Mean Girls: Provocative Clothing Leads to Intra-Sexual Competition between Females

Keys

Bhogal

2016

Curr Psychol

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This study aimed to investigate indirect aggression between females from an evolutionary perspective, considering indirect aggression as a mechanism of intra-sexual competition. Previous research suggests that females who are dressed provocatively, or appear 'sexually available', are more likely to be victims of indirect aggression from other females. Investigating this notion via an empirical measure and a word-selection task, this study involved a female confederate posing as a participant, who was dressed provocatively in one condition and conservatively in the other. Sixty-five females completed an intra-sexual competition scale and a word selection task in which they were able to select complimentary or derogatory phrases to describe the confederate. Making derogative comments is a common form of indirect aggression; therefore, those who selected derogatory phrases could be considered to be exhibiting indirect aggression. Consistent with our hypotheses, participants in the provocative condition obtained significantly higher intra-sexual competition scores and selected more derogatory words than those in the conservative condition, indicating that females dressed provocatively are indirectly aggressed against to a greater extent than those that are not. This paper adds further support to the notion that indirect aggression is used by females as a method of intra-sexual competition, particularly towards provocatively dressed females.

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“…There is a 'new vigor' on the Internet to 'maintain the cultural suppression of female sexuality' or the shaming of women who are (perceived to be) sexually active (Webb, 2015). The aggravated nature of shaming on the Internet can have the effect of silencing those shamed, because it reinforces their exclusion and may lead to them limiting their self-expression; after all shaming is not meant to reintegrate or rehabilitate, but to exclude and ostracise.…”

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confidence: 99%

Misogyny, solidarity and postfeminism on social media: The work of being Diana Shurygina, survivor-celebrity

Rajagopalan

2019

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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In a disclosure on Russian talk television in January 2017, 16-year-old Diana Shurygina shared with a national audience the traumatic details of her rape by Sergei Semenov. Using Shurygina’s performances on television and her subsequent participation on social media as a case study, this article analyses the emergence of empathic publics and the construction of celebrity at the intersection of digital media, popular misogyny and postfeminism in Russia. By setting up a vlog, support groups, fan and personal pages on VKontakte (a popular Russian social networking site), Shurygina is able to counter vicious pillorizing by creating a network of empathy and support. The celebrity that Shurygina sculpts in these spaces, however, is postfeminist in its emphasis on individual choice and self-esteem as strategies to overcome all societal ills, in its celebration of hyperfemininity and in its eschewal of radical politics. This article thus considers how digital platforms shape voice, public affect and solidarity on digital platforms but also how complicit that emergent voice is in the neoliberal ‘retraditionalisation’ of gender roles in post-Soviet Russia.

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Shame transfigured: Slut-shaming from Rome to cyberspace

Cited by 15 publications

References 24 publications

Slumdog romance: Facebook love and digital privacy at the margins

Slumdog romance: Facebook love and digital privacy at the margins

Mean Girls: Provocative Clothing Leads to Intra-Sexual Competition between Females

Misogyny, solidarity and postfeminism on social media: The work of being Diana Shurygina, survivor-celebrity

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