Twitter rape threats and the discourse of online misogyny (DOOM) project
Mark McGlashan
CASS, Lancaster University
In July 2013, Caroline Criado-Perez successfully campaigned to have a woman appear on an English banknote, and was subsequently inundated with extreme misogynistic abuse on Twitter. Over the following days, this escalated, and more prominent women were sent death and bomb threats. Whilst legislative bodies came under intense pressure to handle the issue, there is a lack of research into such behaviour, making evidence-based solutions difficult. As a result of an ESRC urgency grant dedicated to investigating this case, this presentation outlines the project and some findings with regards to the methodological background to finding rape threat trolls and identifying the networks that they form, as well as some suggestions for future directions and projects.
Week 12 2014/2015
Thursday 22nd January 2015
2:00-3:00pm
Management school LT9
This session is co-organised with the RiGLS (Research in Gender, Language and Sexuality) seminar group