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Contributions to reducing online gender harassment : social re-norming and appealing to empathy as tried-and-failed techniques
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Whiley, Lilith A., Walasek, Lukasz and Juanchich, Marie (2023) Contributions to reducing online gender harassment : social re-norming and appealing to empathy as tried-and-failed techniques. Feminism & Psychology, 33 (1). pp. 83-104. doi:10.1177/09593535221104874 ISSN 1461-7161.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535221104874
Abstract
Inspired by similar methods shown to be effective in reducing online racist harassment, we designed two tweets aimed at reducing online gender harassment. Our interventions were based on the principles of social re-norming and appealing to harassers’ empathy. In a sample of 666 Twitter users engaging in sexist or misogynist tweeting, we found that our intervention tweets did not reduce the number of sexist slurs or sexist users, either 7 days or 31 days after being sent. Our attempts also affected neither the valence nor the arousal of subsequent tweets posted by our sample of Twitter users. We discuss the conceptual, methodological, and ethical challenges associated with activist research aimed at reducing online gender harassment and discuss some of the implications of our attempts to do so.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Bullying, Cyberbullying, Internet and women, Sex discrimination against women, Social media, Sexism, Misogyny, Social norms , Empathy | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Feminism & Psychology | ||||||||
Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1461-7161 | ||||||||
Official Date: | February 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 33 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 83-104 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/09593535221104874 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Whiley LA, Walasek L, Juanchich M. Contributions to reducing online gender harassment: Social re-norming and appealing to empathy as tried-and-failed techniques. Feminism & Psychology. July 2022. doi:10.1177/09593535221104874 Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09593535221104874 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 5 August 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 August 2022 |
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