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The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and CommunicationOnline Abuse and Harassment

The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication: Online Abuse and Harassment [ In recent years, gendered violence online in forms such as rape threats, cyberstalking, and image‐based abuse has become increasingly prevalent, toxic, and harmful. Contrary to claims that cyberhate is mostly innocuous because it is virtual rather than “real,” the widespread suffering caused to women has been shown to be substantial, tangible, and embodied. Gendered cyberhate causes women significant social, psychological, reputational, economic, and political harms, and is understood as constituting a new form of workplace harassment as well as an emerging, economic dimension of existing, gender‐related digital divides. The problem has received extensive international media coverage, as well as being the subject of calls for urgent intervention from organizations such as the United Nations (UN) and Amnesty International. Yet a wide range of insidious structural, institutional, and technological factors continue to make gendered cyberhate into a problem that can be difficult to understand and appreciate in its damaging entirety, let alone to combat. In a nutshell, while the technology is new, the threats of sexual violence, victim‐blaming, and institutional inaction associated with online abuse and harassment directed at women can be seen as sitting squarely in far older traditions. Among other things, this illustrates the tenacity of misogyny, the ongoing impacts of systemic gender inequity, the complexity of social problems flowing from machine–human interactions, and the continuing relevance of feminist activism. ] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and CommunicationOnline Abuse and Harassment

Part of the The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication Book Series
Editors: Ross, Karen; Bachmann, Ingrid; Cardo, Valentina; Moorti, Sujata; Scarcelli, Marco
Jane, Emma A.
The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication — Jan 20, 2019
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Copyright
Copyright © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.
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9781119429128
Pages
1–16
DOI
10.1002/9781119429128.iegmc080
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Abstract

[ In recent years, gendered violence online in forms such as rape threats, cyberstalking, and image‐based abuse has become increasingly prevalent, toxic, and harmful. Contrary to claims that cyberhate is mostly innocuous because it is virtual rather than “real,” the widespread suffering caused to women has been shown to be substantial, tangible, and embodied. Gendered cyberhate causes women significant social, psychological, reputational, economic, and political harms, and is understood as constituting a new form of workplace harassment as well as an emerging, economic dimension of existing, gender‐related digital divides. The problem has received extensive international media coverage, as well as being the subject of calls for urgent intervention from organizations such as the United Nations (UN) and Amnesty International. Yet a wide range of insidious structural, institutional, and technological factors continue to make gendered cyberhate into a problem that can be difficult to understand and appreciate in its damaging entirety, let alone to combat. In a nutshell, while the technology is new, the threats of sexual violence, victim‐blaming, and institutional inaction associated with online abuse and harassment directed at women can be seen as sitting squarely in far older traditions. Among other things, this illustrates the tenacity of misogyny, the ongoing impacts of systemic gender inequity, the complexity of social problems flowing from machine–human interactions, and the continuing relevance of feminist activism. ]

Published: Jan 20, 2019

Keywords: cyber VAWG; cyber violence against women and girls; cyberhate; cyberstalking; digital divide; gendered cyberhate; harassment; hate speech; misogyny; rape threats; workplace harassment

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