[Air-l] virtual rape?

Radhika Gajjala radhika at cyberdiva.org
Fri Mar 25 14:37:47 PST 2005


I think Sandy Stone has a reference to Dibbel's work as well.

Marcy Chvasta presented last year at a virtual seminar I organized and her 
position paper is up at

http://www.cyberdiva.org/PTT/Marcy.html

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At 03:50 PM 3/25/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Kathy,
>
>I wrote a short paper recently on the concept of virtual harm, using 
>virtual rape as the case study.
>
>Here are some of the most relevant sources I used:
>
>Herring, Susan C. (2002) Cyber Violence: Recognizing and Resisting Abuse 
>in Online Environments. Asian Women, vol. 14 (Summer) pp. 187-212
>
>Huff, Chuck, Johnson, Deborah G., and Miller, Keith (2003). 'Virtual Harms 
>and Real Responsibility: A Rape in Cyberspace," [WWW Resource] accessed 
>from http://www.njcc.com/~techsoc/huff.html
>
>Mackinnon, Richard, (1997) "Virtual Rape," Journal of Computer-Mediated 
>Communication, [Online] vol 2. no. 4. March, 1997 accessed from 
>http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol2/issue4/mackinnon.html
>
>And two readings from N. Katherine Hayles that aren't exclusively about 
>virtual rape, but do speak compellingly about the virtual body:
>
>Hayles, N. Katherine. (1996) "Boundary Disputes: Homeostasis, Reflexivity 
>and the Foundations of Cybernetics," in Robert Markley (ed.) Virtual 
>Realities and Their Discontents. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University 
>Press, pp. 11-37.
>
>Hayles, N. Katherine. (1999) "The Condition of Virtuality," in Peter 
>Lunenfeld, (ed.) The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media, 
>Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp 68-94.
>
>I hope this is helpful.
>
>Best,
>
>Amanda
>
>
>Amanda Lenhart
>Georgetown University
>MA Candidate, Communications Culture and Technology
>and
>Pew Internet & American Life Project
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Sent: Fri 3/25/2005 2:32 PM
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>Subject: [Air-l] virtual rape?
>
>AoIRers,
>
>Who writes about virtual rape and sexual harassment other than Julian
>Dibbell (or people arguing online about the mr bungle case who get
>their facts from dibbell)?
>
>Thanks,
>Kathy Mancuso
>University of South Carolina
>Department of Anthropology
>
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