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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke +3 more
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Celebrities and cyber crimes: An analysis of the victimization of female film stars on the internet [PDF]
Temida, 2016 With the advent of internet and digital communication technology, online crimes targeting celebrities have gained a momentum. This article argues that, among the celebrities, actresses of Hollywood and Bollywood are particularly targeted online ...
Halder Debarati, Jaishankar Karuppannan
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ITNOW, 2019 Abstract The Universities UK Conference, on tackling online harassment, recently took place at the BCS offices in London. ‘It was clear from the speakers that we must do more as a society to safeguard the individual and prevent online harassment,’ writes Daniel Aldridge, Senior Policy Programme Manager at ...
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl +5 more
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Examining Digital Hate: Gendered discursive strategies in online harassment of Pakistani influencers
Computers in Human Behavior ReportsOnline harassment targeting social media influencers has emerged as a critical behavioural phenomenon in the digital age. This study offers a critical analysis of the discursive strategies utilized in the online harassment of Pakistani social media ...
Musarat Yasmin +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aged care work is physically and emotionally demanding. Workers can feel disempowered, vulnerable and at increased risk of experiencing work‐related stress. This in turn can result in sub‐optimal care and staff shortages. This study aimed to investigate what provisions exist within Australia's strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards to ...
Sharon Stoddart +11 more
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Online harassment and cyberstalking: a case study
Sortuz, 2023 The evidence from some studies conducted until now reflects that the offenders´ conscious anger and hostility toward the victim is the prevalent motivation behind the unwanted pattern of conduct that alarms and causes distress to another individual. From
Iñigo Gordon Benito
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Online Sexual Harassment in Adolescence: A Scoping Review
Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2023 Abstract Introduction Sexual harassment is a complex behavior to study since it is characterized by various dimensions and definitions. Analyzing the characteristics and manifestations of this behavior in the online context, at such a vulnerable time as adolescence, is important to fully understand its nature ...
Franceschi Angela +3 more
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino +3 more
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Women’s Responses to Online Harassment
International Journal of Communication, 2020 Given the ubiquity of social media platforms, the online harassment of women is deservedly drawing significant attention from the media, academics, and the platforms themselves.
Kalyani Chadha +3 more
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