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When Online Harassment Is Perceived as Justified
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2018 Most models of criminal justice seek to identify and punish offenders. However, these models break down in online environments, where offenders can hide behind anonymity and lagging legal systems. As a result, people turn to their own moral codes to sanction perceived offenses.
Lindsay Blackwell +3 more
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Toward a Formal Sociology of Online Harassment
Human Technology, 2019 Online harassment and various subcategories of it, like doxing and swatting, have attracted enormous interest for several years now—and particular interest in the world of game studies in the wake of 2014’s GamerGate harassment campaign. Such protracted, crowdsourced campaigns remain undertheorized, however.
Cross, Katherine
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Addressing Online Harassment in Swedish Journalism: An Institutional Perspective on Management
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2023 This study scrutinizes Swedish news organizations’ strategies to navigate the psychosocial impli- cations of online harassment toward journalists, drawing from interviews with 14 media managers across local and national media outlets.
Oscar Björkenfeldt
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Cybersexual harassment in a state university in Zimbabwe: Voices of female students
The Dyke, 2023 Social media has become a very popular means of communication between and among people as Internet use has increased globally. This means of communication has led to an upsurge in negative online behaviours such as cyber sexual harassment.
Daniel Mawere
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Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement
Social Media + Society, 2021 While online harassment is recognized as a significant problem, most scholarship focuses on descriptions of harassment and its effects. We lack explanations of why people engage in online harassment beyond simple bias or dislike.
Alice E. Marwick
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International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2022 Studies of co-occurrence of online and offline victimisation of bullying and sexual harassment and its associations to mental health outcomes among youth are scarce.
Heléne Dahlqvist +2 more
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Contrapower harassment in paramedicine: Experiences of academic staff in Australian universities
, 2022 Background: Although bullying and harassment among academic staff has been well researched, research on students bullying and harassing academic teaching staff (ie, contrapower harassment) is less common.
Williams, Brett +23 more
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Feminist Dissent, 2022 The promise of social media platforms on the internet was the creation of a level playing field that would enable users equal access to express themselves online. However, the experience of women journalists and human rights defenders has shown that while they are able to use the medium, they are attacked for expressing unpopular views and threatened ...
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Online Harassment in Sri Lanka: A Thematic Analysis
Social Sciences, 2023 Online harassment has become a growing menace worldwide for which every nation is trying to find a solution. Existing literature demonstrates that online harassment is widespread in diverse forms and so is its impact on the victims.
Kushanthi S. Harasgama +1 more
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Technology Solutions to Combat Online Harassment [PDF]
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Abusive Language Online, 2017 This work is part of a new initiative to use machine learning to identify online harassment in social media and comment streams. Online harassment goes under-reported due to the reliance on humans to identify and report harassment, reporting that is further slowed by requirements to fill out forms providing context. In addition, the time for moderators
George Kennedy +6 more
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