Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, and Harassment

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii The Persistence of Misogyny: From the Streets, to Our Screens, to the White House (Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Tracy Everbach)....Pages 1-27 Front Matter ....Pages 29-29 This Isn’t New: Gender, Publics, and the Internet (Jacqueline Ryan Vickery)....Pages 31-49 Limitations of “Just Gender”: The Need for an Intersectional Reframing of Online Harassment Discourse and Research (Lucy Hackworth)....Pages 51-70 Mediated Misogynoir: Intersecting Race and Gender in Online Harassment (Stephanie Madden, Melissa Janoske, Rowena Briones Winkler, Amanda Nell Edgar)....Pages 71-90 bell hooks and Consciousness-Raising: Argument for a Fourth Wave of Feminism (Katie Blevins)....Pages 91-108 Front Matter ....Pages 109-109 Mainstreaming Misogyny: The Beginning of the End and the End of the Beginning in Gamergate Coverage (David Nieborg, Maxwell Foxman)....Pages 111-130 “I Realized It Was About Them … Not Me”: Women Sports Journalists and Harassment (Tracy Everbach)....Pages 131-149 Misogyny for Male Solidarity: Online Hate Discourse Against Women in South Korea (Jinsook Kim)....Pages 151-169 Don’t Mess with My Happy Place: Understanding Misogyny in Fandom Communities (Gwendelyn S. Nisbett)....Pages 171-188 Misogyny in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election (Dustin Harp)....Pages 189-207 Technology-Based Abuse: Intimate Partner Violence and the Use of Information Communication Technologies (Megan Lindsay Brown, Lauren A. Reed, Jill Theresa Messing)....Pages 209-227 Leave a Comment: Consumer Responses to Advertising Featuring “Real” Women (Amanda Mabry-Flynn, Sara Champlin)....Pages 229-245 A Space for Women: Online Commenting Forums as Indicators of Civility and Feminist Community-Building (Joy Jenkins, J. David Wolfgang)....Pages 247-268 Front Matter ....Pages 269-269 Combating the Digital Spiral of Silence: Academic Activists Versus Social Media Trolls (Candi Carter Olson, Victoria LaPoe)....Pages 271-291 The Varieties of Feminist Counterspeech in the Misogynistic Online World (Scott R. Stroud, William Cox)....Pages 293-310 TrollBusters: Fighting Online Harassment of Women Journalists (Michelle Ferrier, Nisha Garud-Patkar)....Pages 311-332 The Global Anti-Street Harassment Movement: Digitally-Enabled Feminist Activism (Karen Desborough)....Pages 333-351 Celebrity Victims and Wimpy Snowflakes: Using Personal Narratives to Challenge Digitally Mediated Rape Culture (Kaitlyn Regehr, Jessica Ringrose)....Pages 353-369 #NastyWomen: Reclaiming the Twitterverse from Misogyny (Gina Masullo Chen, Paromita Pain, Jinglun Zhang)....Pages 371-388 Conclusion: What Can We Do About Mediated Misogyny? (Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Tracy Everbach, Lindsay Blackwell, Mary Anne Franks, Barbara Friedman, Sheila Gibbons et al.)....Pages 389-412 Back Matter ....Pages 413-429