[Air-L] PhD plea: Theory Recommendations for On-to-Offline Harassment Research?

Tue Oct 13 09:02:56 PDT 2015

Wonderful! Thank you so much!

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Paula Todd <paulatoddmedia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you! I will definitely take a look. Much appreciated.
>
> Paula
>
> *PAULA TODD, B.A., LL.B.*
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> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Kristin Dagmar Eckert <
> stine.eckert at wayne.edu> wrote:
>
> > Dear Paula
> >
> > I am not sure if this might be helpful but in case it this, Danielle K.
> > Citron wrote the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace and it does show also how
> > online and offline harassment are connected and have effects in the
> > "offline" world. Its theoretical part focuses on developing a legal
> > framework for the US to prosecute online harassment as offline harassment
> > is also legally prosecuted.
> >
> > Best,
> > Stine
> >
> > Stine Eckert, Ph.D.
> > Vice-Chair Feminist Scholarship Division, ICA
> > Assistant Professor
> > Department of Communication
> > 571 Manoogian Hall
> > Wayne State University
> > Detroit, MI 48201
> >
> > @stineeckert
> > http://stineeckert.com/
> > https://wikidgrrls.wordpress.com/
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> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Alette
> Schoon <
> > A.Schoon at ru.ac.za>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 1:15 AM
> > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] PhD plea: Theory Recommendations for On-to-Offline
> > Harassment Research?
> >
> > Dear Paula
> >
> > I did a study of an online gossip network among unemployed young
> > people in a low-income black neighbourhood in South Africa, which you
> > may find interesting.
> >
> >
> http://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.uct.ac.za/doi/abs/10.1080/02560046.2012.744723
> > I initially considered doing a critical discourse analysis of the
> > gossip site itself, but I'm glad I chose rather to do qualitative
> > interviews with the young people, as I was surprised by the findings.
> > Through the interviews I found out mainly young women used the gossip
> > site as a type of class-policing, to target other young women who were
> > defying class boundaries and 'moving up' - a type of 'tall poppy'
> > syndrome. Here an abject female character associated with a stereotype
> > of the 'black primitive' was constructed as identity for those who
> > 'think they're better than us', so perpetuating both race, class and
> > gender divisions in a highly fractured society. I would not have
> > discovered this from the content of the site.
> >
> > Good luck with your research.
> > Alette
> >
> > Alette Schoon
> > Senior Lecturer
> > Television Production
> > School of Journalism and Media Studies
> > Rhodes University
> > South Africa
> >
> > Quoting Paula Todd <paulatoddmedia at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > Hi AoIR-ers,
> > >
> > >
> > > With apologies for cross-posting.
> > >
> > > Will be very sorry to miss Phoenix this month (Korea was amazing last
> > year)
> > > but the US dollar is a Canadian nightmare. What a difference a year
> (and
> > > oil) makes. Enjoy!
> > >
> > > *Query: *I'm researching the effects of negative online role-modelling
> > >  (including sexist/racists memes, videos and social media) on incidents
> > of
> > > *offline* harassment. I am looking at adults, particularly women,
> rather
> > > than youth digital-schoolyard bullying. I'm inching through Critical
> > > Discourse Analysis as a theoretical framework, but wonder whether
> anyone
> > > imagines a more helpful framework(s). eg. feminist theory. Is there
> good
> > > work/research that should be consulted?
> > >
> > > New to PhD studies, so any help would be gratefully accepted, and
> shared
> > > with permission only.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Paula
> > >
> > >
> > > *PAULA TODD, *B.A., LL.B.
> > > ,
> > > PhD Candidate at YorkU
> > > Toronto, Ontario, Canada
> > >
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