Online Abuse of Feminists as An Emerging form of Violence Against Women and Girls

Lewis, Ruth; Rowe, Michael; Wiper, Clare

doi:10.1093/bjc/azw073

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“…Online gender-based violence is increasingly recognized as a major human rights problem (Amnesty International, 2018; Lewis, Rowe, & Wiper, 2017;OHCHR, 2017;United Nations Human Rights Council, 2018). Just like the discriminatory attitudes that engender them, solutions are complex.…”

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“…We suggest that the next steps in a multifaceted response to online GBV requires open discussion and debate as well as empirical research to better understand peoples' lived experiences of online GBV. While excellent work is emerging (see e.g., Chatterjee et al, 2018;Dragiewicz et al, 2018;Freed et al, 2017Freed et al, , 2018Lewis et al, 2017;Salter, 2017;Woodlock, 2017), more research is needed to understand the landscape of GBV and responses to it online. In particular, empirical research is needed in order to produce evidence to guide international efforts to modify and use Internet architecture to address GBV.…”

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Human Rights by Design: The Responsibilities of Social Media Platforms to Address Gender‐Based Violence Online

Suzor¹,

Dragiewicz²,

Harris³

et al. 2018

Policy & Internet

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Gender‐based violence online is rampant, ranging from harassment of women who are public figures on social media to stalking intimate partners using purpose‐built apps. This is not an issue that can be addressed by individual states alone, nor can it be addressed satisfactorily through legal means. The normalization of misogyny and abuse online both reflects and reinforces systemic inequalities. Addressing gender‐based violence online will require the intervention of the technology companies that govern the commercial Internet to prevent and combat abuse across networks and services. We argue that international human rights instruments provide an opportunity to identify with more precision the responsibilities of telecommunications companies and digital media platforms to mitigate harm perpetrated through their networks, and ensure that the systems they create do not reproduce gendered inequality. Finally, we present initial recommendations for platforms to promote human rights and fulfill their responsibilities under the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

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Human Rights by Design: The Responsibilities of Social Media Platforms to Address Gender‐Based Violence Online

Suzor¹,

Dragiewicz²,

Harris³

et al. 2018

Policy & Internet

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“…g. sexual harassment (Cimac 2011;RELE-CIDH 2018). Recent studies report that women occupying public spaces, such as journalists, politicians, and activists, are routinely subject to online abuse that may be qualitatively different to that received by men, in terms of the use of hate speech, misogyny, sexism, and threats of sexual violence (Lewis, Rowe, and Wiper 2017;Chen et al 2018;Rheault, Rayment, and Musulan 2019).…”

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Double-edged knife: practices and perceptions of technology and digital security among Mexican journalists in violent contexts

Macías

Rodelo

2020

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

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Violence against Mexican journalists has received significant attention from scholars at home and abroad during the last decade. However, though a diversity of issues have been consistently studied, there is one topic that is still largely neglected: the implications of technology for news workers' security and their journalistic practice. Drawing on a set of semistructured interviews with 93 journalists working in 23 of the most dangerous Mexican subnational entities, the aim of this article is to fill that gap. Empirical evidence from all over the country points to a nearly unanimous perception of digital technologies as being a "double-edged knife." This is because electronic devices and social media may be used as a tool for developing better reporting practices, but also as a weapon against journalists, throughfor instanceonline harassment or espionage.

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“…Adolescents appear to be especially vulnerable to this sort of attention, while still finding it hard to refuse access to their online selves (Weinstein and Selman 2016). Women and non-white people are common targets of trolling and abuse when defending their rights (Jakubowicz 2017;Lewis et al 2017). Scions of digital modernity are divided as to whether these problems can be sorted out technically (Geiger 2016), or whether we should retreat into a positive, but actually rather exclusive, big data paradigm where the individual, his or her agents and social machines, benevolent companies and the state get to use the technology (Mayer-Schön-berger and Cukier 2013).…”

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The contradictions of digital modernity

O’Hara

2018

AI & Soc

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This paper explores the concept of digital modernity, the extension of narratives of modernity with the special affordances of digital networked technology. Digital modernity produces a new narrative which can be taken in many ways: to be descriptive of reality; a teleological account of an inexorable process; or a normative account of an ideal sociotechnical state. However, it is understood that narratives of digital modernity help shape reality via commercial and political decision-makers, and examples are given from the politics and society of the United Kingdom. The paper argues that digital modernity has two dimensions, of progression through time and progression through space, and these two dimensions can be in contradiction. Contradictions can also be found between ideas of digital modernity and modernity itself, and also between digital modernity and some of the basic pre-modern concepts that underlie the whole technology industry. Therefore, digital modernity may not be a sustainable goal for technology development.

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Online Abuse of Feminists as An Emerging form of Violence Against Women and Girls

Cited by 84 publications

References 26 publications

Human Rights by Design: The Responsibilities of Social Media Platforms to Address Gender‐Based Violence Online

Human Rights by Design: The Responsibilities of Social Media Platforms to Address Gender‐Based Violence Online

Double-edged knife: practices and perceptions of technology and digital security among Mexican journalists in violent contexts

The contradictions of digital modernity

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