Joseph R. Dominick, Gail E. Rauch
That women are still stereotyped despite the continuing activism of the women's liberation movement is clearly demonstrated in the following study of a sample of early 1971 network TV ads. Focusing on the advertising viewed in millions of homes during prime‐time, the authors conclude that women are ...
Nithya Sambasivan, Amna Batool, Nova Ahmed, Tara Matthews et al.
South Asia faces one of the largest gender gaps online globally, and online safety is one of the main barriers to gender-equitable Internet access [GSMA, 2015]. To better understand the gendered risks and coping practices online in South Asia, we present a qualitative study of the online abuse exper...
Fayika Farhat Nova, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Pratyasha Saha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed et al.
Prior research on anonymous social media (ASM) has studied the issue of sexual harassment and has revealed its connections to stereotyping, aggression, interpersonal relationships, and mental health among others [16, 24, 60]. However, the characteristics of such harassment in the context of low and ...
Megan Condis
Sharifa Sultana, Mitrasree Deb, Ananya Bhattacharjee, Shaid Hasan et al.
Women in the global south often seek justice to their online harassment through unveiling the harassers and the screenshots of their sent harassment texts and visual contents before the relevant authorities. Nevertheless, such evidence is often challenged for their authenticity. Our survey (n=91) an...
Paul Baines, Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, Kevin Moloney, Barry Richards et al.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss exploratory research into the perceptions of British Muslims towards Islamist ideological messaging to contribute to the general debate on “radicalisation”. Design/methodology/approach Four focus groups were undertaken with a mixture of Bangladeshi and...
Md. Mamunur Rashid Sheikh, Michaela Rogers
Technology-facilitated sexual violence and abuse (TFSVA) is a pervasive phenomenon and a global problem. TFSVA refers to any form of sexual violence, exploitation, or harassment enacted through the misuse of digital technologies. This includes, but is not limited to, image-based sexual abuse, online...
Shaila Sultana, Ana Deumert
Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk, Tine Ustad Figenschou, Scott A. Eldridge, Lena Frischlich et al.
In this introduction to the special issue Contesting the Mainstream: Understanding Alternative News Media and its Contribution to Diversity, we discuss how and to what extent alternative news media contribute to news diversity. We elaborate on the concept of diversity, the democratic role of media a...
Thomas Poell, Sudha Rajagopalan
This article examines how feminist activists, women's organizations, and journalists in India connected with each other through Twitter following the gang rape incident in New Delhi in December 2012. First, the investigation draws on a set of +15 million tweets specifically focused on rape and gang ...
Aparna Moitra, Naeemul Hassan, Manash Kumar Mandal, Mansurul Bhuiyan et al.
A series of events in October 2017 led to the initiation of an unprecedented global feminist movement over various social media platforms, where using the hashtag #MeToo (or some variants of it), women across the world publicly shared their untold stories of being sexually harassed. We conducted an ...
Seama Mowri, Ajay Bailey
This paper analyzes the role of print media in framing incidences of sexual harassment in public transport; particularly in the context of Bangladesh, where gender-based violence is highly prevalent in the public sphere. This article uses Douglas’ cultural theory to reflect on media practices and it...
Souvik Mukherjee, Emil Lundedal Hammar
<p class="p1">The treatment of colonialism in video games, barring a few notable exceptions, is marked by a Western and, specifically, late 19th-century imperialist bias. Simultaneously, in the past two decades of multifaceted research and the development of robust theoretical frameworks in the stil...
Rula Odeh Alsawalqa, Maissa N. Alrawashdeh, Shahedul Hasan
The "Man Box" refers to a rigid set of expectations, perceptions, and behaviors that are considered "manly" and/or a "real man's" behavior, imposed on men by the society, such as superiority, cruelty, emotional suppression, lack of physical intimacy with other men, and expectations of socially aggre...
Naeemul Hassan, Manash Kumar Mandal, Mansurul Bhuiyan, Aparna Moitra et al.
In October 2017, an unprecedented social media movement started where women from all around the world publicly shared their untold stories of being sexually harassed using the hashtag #MeToo (or some variants of it). While this movement raised voices against sexual harassment across the globe, many ...