[Air-L] CFP deadline approaching - Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, and Harassment

[Jacqueline Vickery]

Final reminder - deadline is Nov. 1, but can possibly be extended. Please
email me with any questions or ideas. We are particularly interested in
chapters about non-US populations, intersectionality, and historical
approaches to harassment. Full CFP:
https://jrvickery.com/2016/08/01/cfp-mediating-misogyny-technology-gender-harassment/
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This proposed edited collection of interdisciplinary essays aims to
critically analyze the ways the internet and digital technologies mediate
misogyny, gender-based harassment, and assault. The online harassment of
women has been gaining increasing visibility with contemporary incidents
such as Gamergate, revenge porn sites, and the public misogynistic trolling
campaigns directed at celebrities and journalists. In response, women are
using the internet as a space for consciousness raising, feminist activism,
collective storytelling, and resistance to gender-based harassment. This
book will analyze how gender-based harassment is mediated and also uncover
the ways women are using digital media technologies to fight back against
harassment, trolls, and assault – both online and offline.

In an effort to propel the conversations forward and expand the discourse,
we are particularly interested in chapters that not only document,
critique, and analyze gender-based online harassment, but also put forward
possible solutions that include a wide array of stakeholders and spheres
including (but not limited to): activism, education, platform design, the
law, social norms, workplace and platform policy, and the market.

We invite theoretical, qualitative, and quantitative approaches to the
topic and welcome different disciplinary approaches including, but not
limited to: cultural studies, media studies, critical race theory, gender
studies, feminist approaches, communication, journalism, sociology,
cultural anthropology, technology studies, and historiography.

Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:

   - Feminism as related to safe (digital) spaces
   - The public sphere and women’s participation in networked publics
   - The relationship between platform design, policies, and online
   harassment
   - The intersections of sexuality, race, ability, religion, age, class,
   and/or geography and the relationship to gender-based harassment
   - Historical approaches to and contextualization of digital misogyny
   - Case studies documenting, critiquing, and analyzing harassment via
   digital media
   - The blurred boundaries of online and offline harassment
   - Feminist anti-harassment activist campaigns
   - Mediated representations of online harassment in news journalism
   and/or fictional narratives
   - Harassment of women in the global south and other underrepresented
   online populations
   - Professional women and harassment on the job

Please send *complete chapters* (max. 7,000 words w/ refs), a brief bio,
and full CV to Dr. Jacqueline Vickery (jacqueline.vickery at unt.edu) and Dr.
Tracy Everbach (tracy.everbach at unt.edu) by *November 1, 2016*. If you have
an idea and want feedback, you may submit a 4-5 page abstract prior to the
deadline. We will market the book for classroom adoption so take an
undergraduate audience into consideration in your tone, scope, and
approach.  Routledge, Palgrave, and the University of Illinois Press have
all indicated enthusiastic interest in the project and we will continue to
consider other reputable academic publishers. Please circulate the CFP
widely with graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars who work
on any aspect of (digital) media, gender, and harassment.


*Dr. Jacqueline Ryan **Vickery, Ph.D.*
Assistant Professor
Department of Media Arts  <http://mediaarts.unt.edu/>
College of Arts & Sciences
University of North Texas
@JacVick | http://jrvickery.com/