Mediating misogyny : gender, technology, and harassment
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Mediating misogyny : gender, technology, and harassment
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
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Mediating Misogyny is a collection of original academic essays that foregrounds the intersection of gender, technology, and media. Framed and informed by feminist theory, the book offers empirical research and nuanced theoretical analysis about the gender-based harassment women experience both online and offline. The contributors of this volume provide information on the ways feminist activists are using digital tools to combat harassment, raise awareness, and organize for social and political change across the globe. Lastly, the book provides practical resources and tips to help students, educators, institutions, and researchers stop online harassment.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Persistence of Misogyny: From the Streets, to Our Screens, to the White House
2. This Isn't New: Gender, Publics, and the Internet
3. Limitations of "Just Gender": The Need for an Intersectional Reframing of Online Harassment Discourse and Research
4. Mediated Misogynoir: Intersecting Race and Gender in Online Harassment
5. bell hooks and Consciousness-Raising: Argument for a Fourth Wave of Feminism
6. Mainstreaming Misogyny: The End of the Beginning and the Beginning of the End in Gamergate Coverage
7. "I Realized It Was About Them ... Not Me": Women Sports Journalists and Harassment
8. Misogyny for Male Solidarity: Online Hate Discourse against Women in South Korea
9. Don't Mess With My Happy Place: Understanding Misogyny in Fandom Communities
10. Misogyny in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
11. Technology-Based Abuse: Intimate Partner Violence and the Use of Information Communication Technologies
12. Leave a Comment: Consumer Responses to Advertising Featuring "Real" Women
13. A Space for Women: Online Commenting Forums as Indicators of Civility and Feminist Community-Building
14. Combatting the Digital Spiral of Silence: Academic Activists vs. Social Media Trolls
15. The Varieties of Feminist Counterspeech in the Misogynistic Online World
16. Trollbusters: Fighting Online Harassment of Women Journalists
17. The Global Anti-Street Harassment Movement: Digitally Enabled Feminist Activism
18. Celebrity Victims and Wimpy Snowflakes: Using Personal Narratives to Challenge Digitally Mediated Rape Culture
19. #NastyWomen: Reclaiming the Twitterverse from Misogyny
20. Conclusion: What Can We Do About Mediated Misogyny?
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