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

Firuzeh Shokooh Valle firuzehsv at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 08:38:11 PDT 2015


Hi,

I am also looking for literature on violence against women online. Any
recommendations would be great!

Thank you!

Best,
Firuzeh

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/
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
> 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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