[Air-L] question re research on hostility towards women in online communities

[T. Kennedy]

Thks Todd!

Here are a couple of items from over the years:

Kennedy, T. (2000). "An Exploratory Study of Feminist Experiences in
Cyberspace" in Cyber Psychology and Behaviour, Vol 3 (5), pp 707-719.

Kennedy, T. (2007). "The Personal is Political: Feminist Blogging and
Virtual Consciousness-Raising" in The Scholar & Feminist Online Journal,
(eds) Gwendolyn Beetham & Jessica Valenti, Vol 5 (2).

Conferences - 

Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Seattle, Washington,
October 2011. "Peeking into the Boy's Clubhouse: Masculine Discourses in
Call of Duty".

Association of Internet Researchers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 2009:
"'The voices in my head are idiots' Rethinking Barriers for Female Gamers &
the Importance of Online Communities"

American Sociology Association - Communication, Information & Technologies
Mini-Conference, New York/Second Life, August 2007: "Women's Online Gaming
Communities: Don't Hate the Game, Hate the Players".

Association of Internet Researchers, Chicago, Illinois, October 2005: "Does
Gender Matter? Examining Conversations in the Blogosphere".

Tracy

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online communities

While this is more about gaming and less about blogs, Tracy Kennedy has
done some work on player communities on XBox Live and how women are treated
in that space. You may want to look at the proceedings for the past few
AoIR conferences and see what she's submitted.


On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:08 AM, elham gheytanchi
<elhamucla at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hello All:
>
> I was wondering if there is research about hostility/ (verbal) violence
> against women in online communities?
>
> I am particularly interested in this question "is Farsi (Persian) speaking
> online communities, such as blog sphere and Persian social media are
> hostile towards women/ female bloggers and online participants?"
>
> I would greatly appreciate any feedback. You can email me directly.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Elham Gheytanchi
> Sociology, Santa Monica College
>
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Tracy L. M. Kennedy, PhD
Course Instructor
Dept of Communication, Popular Culture & Film 
Brock University
500 Glenridge Ave, St. Catharines, ON

Post Doctoral Researcher
Annenberg Center for Communication & Journalism
University of Southern California
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