May be of interest to some?
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Amanda Menking
PhD Student
Information School | University of Washington
On 9/23/15, 9:58 AM, "Sobieraj, Sarah" <Sarah.Sobieraj(a)tufts.edu> wrote:
Hello Everyone- -
I have been quietly enjoying the contributions to this list for the last
year, it¹s fantastic, thank you. This is only my second utterance, and
it¹s a request for help (some people, right?).
At any rate, I am a sociologist working on a book project on the way
gender-based attacks against women online shape public discourse. The
research is specifically studying women who enter public discourse
sharing their work or ideas (e.g., journalists, bloggers, academics,
public figures, etc.) and face a distinctly gendered backlash. This
digital misogyny generally includes some combination of gendered and
often racialized name-calling, rape threats, hostile use of pornographic
imagery, remarks about their presumed sexual behavior or interests,
demeaning gender stereotypes, and unsolicited commentary about their
physical appearance, among other things. My focal interest for the
project is in the way this harassment shapes women¹s political voice and
visibility.
Members of this list are much more well aware than most of how prevalent
this kind of response is, and I¹m hoping you might be able to help me.
Thus far, I have interviewed a range of women ‹ some of them are low
profile folks who have faced gendered hostilities in their personal use
of platforms such as tumblr or twitter, but I have also interviewed women
with higher visibility whose work puts them in the position of dealing
with this kind of thing routinely (e.g., writers for national
publications and high traffic websites), as well as a few women whose
harassment itself has captured national attention.
I¹m looking to interview (in-depth, semi structured, confidential) more
women. If you know someone who has had to cope with digital sexism in
response to their participation in public discourse (videos, tweets, blog
posts, articles, media appearances, political speeches, etc.), and you
think they might be open to learning more about the research, I would
very much appreciate it if you could email me privately:
sarah.sobieraj@tufts.edu<mailto:sarah.sobieraj@tufts.edu>
Thank you in advance for your help.
Sarah
sarah sobieraj
associate professor of sociology
tufts university
617.627.2472 (o)
617.501.6357 (c)
sarah.sobieraj@tufts.edu<mailto:sarah.sobieraj@tufts.edu>
http://as.tufts.edu/sociology/people/faculty/sobieraj
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