Online abuse of women: an interdisciplinary scoping review of the literature

Watson, Susan

doi:10.1080/14680777.2023.2181136

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“…There have been other studies looking at online abuse targeting particular groups, such as hate against female bloggers [39], female journalists [40] or women in general [41], [42]. However, a broader investigation into a more diverse set of targets, as well as looking into specific characteristics of those targets, is still missing.…”

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“…In Table 9, we report the five locations for target users. Washington, DC, has noticeably higher numbers of targeted posts (5283), while targets from New York have higher behavioural-based abusive attacks (42). Further, we mapped all locations into the world map using the gmaps package 4 , by using its functionality to geocode location strings, and plotted the heatmap in the Figures 6 and 7.…”

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Target-Oriented Investigation of Online Abusive Attacks: A Dataset and Analysis

Alharthi

Shekhar

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IEEE Access

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Despite a body of research revolving around online abusive language, aiming at different objectives such as detection, diffusion prediction, and mitigation, existing research has seldom looked at factors motivating this behaviour. To further research in this direction, we investigate the motivations behind online abuse by looking at the characteristics of the targets of such abuse, i.e. is the abuse more prominent for specific characteristics of the targets? To enable target-oriented research into online abuse, we introduce the Online Abusive Attacks (OAA) dataset, the first benchmark dataset providing a holistic view of online abusive attacks, including social media profile data and metadata for both targets and perpetrators, in addition to context. The dataset contains 2.3K Twitter accounts, 5M tweets, and 106.9K categorised conversations. Further, we conduct an in-depth statistical analysis of online abuse centred around the targets' characteristics. We identify two types of abusive attacks: those motivated by characteristics of the targets (identity-based attacks) and others (behavioural attacks). We find that online abusive attacks are predominantly motivated by the targets' identities (97%), behavioural attacks accounting for a much smaller proportion (3%). Abuse is also more likely to target users who are popular and have a verified status. Interestingly, an analysis of the user bios shows no clear indication that keywords used in the bios are likely to trigger abuse. Additionally, we also look at the frequency with which perpetrators perform online abusive attacks. Our analysis shows a large number of infrequent perpetrators, with only a few recurrent perpetrators. Findings from our study have important implications for the development of abusive language detection models that incorporate an awareness of the targets to improve their potential for prediction.

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Target-Oriented Investigation of Online Abusive Attacks: A Dataset and Analysis

Alharthi

Shekhar

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IEEE Access

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Digital Violence Against Women: Is There a Real Need for Special Criminalization?

Polyzoidou

2024

Int J Semiot Law

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Social networking and rapid digital evolution have created a brand-new framework of human behaviours and habits. Of course, the majority of them already existed over the centuries but in a different form; as a result, conventional assaults towards legal interests of specific individuals have initially transformed into electronic and then into cyber(-)crimes (p.e. from conventional pornography to internet pornography or cyber/digital pornography including sometimes even virtual pornography via pseudo images and totally AI generated pictures). When discussion comes to gender-based violence, in particular violence against women and domestic violence, we realize that abuses and violations of their fundamental human rights could take place either online or offline; furthermore, both similarities and differences in old and new behaviours, and consequently in crime formations (“actus reus”) and in perpetrators’ “modus operandi” could easily be found and categorized. This paper will not discover the causes or the elements behind the various digital abuses against women; its first purpose is to gather the various crime behaviours against women and reach some conclusions by a methodically comparative bibliographic and legislative research. Besides, tackling gender-based violence –in particular violence against women and domestic violence- consists one of the main contemporary concerns of every liberal state. CoE’s contribution to it –through Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) and Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) but even via ECHR’s case law- is indisputable. At the same time, European Union is trying to end gender-based violence through its member states with a new legal instrument (a proposed Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence), whose results are expected to be more direct and -hopefully- more effective. The main target of this paper is to present and examine the specific form of digital crime against women and girls as long as the majority of crimes nowadays takes place digitally; notwithstanding the fact that pandemic and post pandemic era have definitely determined criminals’ modus operandi. At the end of the day, someone has to answer: how Criminal Law faces the new aforementioned behaviours, based on the fundamental theory of legal interest and leading to a justified (extra) standardization? And even more: where does this “plus” in penalties (: aggravation) for behaviours that combine characteristics of digital and gender-based criminality come from?

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“It’s a joke, not a dick. So don’t take it too hard”: online sexual harassment in Indian universities

Dey

2023

Feminist Media Studies

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Online abuse of women: an interdisciplinary scoping review of the literature

Cited by 6 publications

References 58 publications

Target-Oriented Investigation of Online Abusive Attacks: A Dataset and Analysis

Target-Oriented Investigation of Online Abusive Attacks: A Dataset and Analysis

Digital Violence Against Women: Is There a Real Need for Special Criminalization?

“It’s a joke, not a dick. So don’t take it too hard”: online sexual harassment in Indian universities

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