‘When I Saw Women Being Attacked … It Made Me Want to Stand Up and Fight’: Reporting, Responding to, and Resisting Online Misogyny

Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse: International Perspectives and Experiences

“…A variety of qualitative studies have been conducted with "targets" (or victimsurvivors) and frontline workers who support them in relation to cyberstalking (e.g., Dimond, Fiesler, & Bruckman, 2011;Weathers & Hopson, 2015); Technology-Facilitated domestic violence (Douglas et al, 2019;Dragiewicz et al, 2019;George & Harris, 2014;OeSC, 2019a;Woodlock, 2017); imagebased sexual abuse (Amudsen, 2019;Bates, 2017;McGlynn et al, 2019McGlynn et al, , 2020OeSC, 2017); image-based sexual harassment (Mandau, 2020); online sexual harassment; Technology-Facilitated sexual assault (Gillett, 2019); online hate (Lewis, Rowe, & Wiper, 2019;Smith, 2019); online child sexual exploitation (e.g., Gerwitz-Meydan, Walsh, Wolak, & Finkelhor, 2018; for an overview of studies see; DeMarco, Sharrock, Crowther, & Barnard, 2018); cyberbullying (especially in relation to children and youthfor an overview of studies see Dennehy et al, 2020); and TFVA more broadly (Henry & Powell, 2015;OeSC, 2019a, b;Powell & Henry, 2017). More research focusing on the experiences of Indigenous peoples; racial minorities; people with disabilities [but see : Alhaboby, al -Khateeb, Barnes, and Short (2016); Alhaboby, Barnes, Evans, and Short (2019)]; sex workers; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI1) people; as well as those living in rural, regional, and remote areas is needed.…”