[Air-l] virtual rape?

Rhiannon Bury buryrc at rogers.com
Fri Mar 25 14:49:29 PST 2005


Yes, but it's a rehash from Dibbel as I recall.

Rhiannon Bury

Casey O'Donnell wrote:

>I believe virtual rape was also mentioned in Sherry Turkle's, "Life on the
>Screen". I may be confusing it with another text though...been a while since
>I read it.
>
>Cheers.
>Casey
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
>[mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Amanda
>Lenhart
>Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 3:50 PM
>To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org; Kathy Mancuso
>Subject: RE: [Air-l] virtual rape?
>
>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-----
>From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Kathy Mancuso
>Sent: Fri 3/25/2005 2:32 PM
>To: air-l-aoir.org at listserv.aoir.org
>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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