This report looks at online harassment and its connection to internal corporate culture, shedding light on the relationship between online harassment and systemic bias in the newsroom.
Online trolling, harassment, and hate campaigns targeting female journalists persist all over the world.
Wendy Davis, Angela Angel, Marilyn Mosby, Kim Weaver, Rina Shah Bharara, Stephanie Roman, Katherine Clark, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen discuss online harassment #NameItChangeIt
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“The Court just handed stalkers and harassers, including of politicians, journalists, climate scientists, doctors advocating for vaccines, you name it, a new weapon,” said Soraya Chemaly, director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, an offshoot of the Women’s Media Center, which was founded in 2005 by the actress Jane Fonda and the feminists Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem.
Earlier this year, in a little remarked upon episode, the nation was exposed to how differently men and women politicians are treated in media. In September, Senator John McCain was showered with accolades after he voted against his party’s attempt to repeal Obamacare and urged his peers to espouse cross-party conciliation. McCain’s Johnny-Come-Lately stake in the ground came, however, in the wake of the consistent, longer-standing, and defiant intra-party opposition of two other Republican Senators, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, who were motivated, in part by their pro-choice stance.
Research and statistics about the scope, tactics and impacts of online harassment.
Rape threats and other sexualized vitriol online feel extremely personal. These are messages that often go into explicit detail about which parts of our bodies will be violated with which instruments. They give the impression that the senders know us, that they are aware of our particular weak spots and of what to say to […]
Activism in the form of editing and contributing to Wikipedia articles is a natural venue for women immersed in social media engagement. Using research skills that they have spent their lifetimes honing, women have the potential and opportunity to narrow massive gender and information gaps on Wikipedia and other information resources.
“Online misogyny is a global gender rights tragedy and it is imperative that it ends. Girls and women’s voices are constrained in ways that are personally, professionally and economically damaging.”
