Essays about: "online harassment"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 27 essays containing the words online harassment.

  1. 16. Advancing Women’s Rights in the Age of Social Media: An Analysis of the #MeToo Movement

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Gaudi Delgado Falcon; [2019]
    Keywords : MeToo; Sexual Harassment; Social Movements; Social Media; Women´s Rights; Social Change; Media; Communication for Development; Twitter;

    Abstract : In 2017, the Me Too campaign, founded ten years earlier to help women of color from low-income communities who were survivors of sexual violence, became a viral social media movement following allegations on Twitter by actress Alyssa Milano of sexual harassment and violence against the powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Using the hashtag #MeToo, Milano unwittingly mobilized millions of women to share their stories via social media, and the #Metoo movement subsequently helped to illuminate both the structural and individual aspects of sexual harassment and abuse by men against women within virtually all aspects of society. READ MORE

  3. 17. An analysis of the #AidToo movement on Twitter: What impacts can a hashtag achieve on sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector?

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Natacha Cornaz; [2019]
    Keywords : #AidToo; #MeToo; aid; online activism; safeguarding; SEA; sexual exploitation and abuse; social movements; Twitter;

    Abstract : Abuses and sexual misconduct have been present in the aid sector for decades. In 2013, a UN investigation declared sexual exploitation and abuse the most significant risk to UN peacekeeping missions. Nevertheless, the culture of impunity and hypocrisy still prevails in the aid sector. READ MORE

  4. 18. Ontological Security of Women : The Role of Digital Feminist Activism

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Katharina Krüger; [2019]
    Keywords : Feminism; Ontological Security; Social Media Sites; Women;

    Abstract : Ontological Security Studies have been grounded on the ideas of Giddens (1991a,b). It describes how humans can face challenges of the modern world without being overwhelmed by anxieties. Since then many scholars such as Steele (2008) and Mitzen (2006) have developed his ideas furthermore. READ MORE

  5. 19. THE USE OF HOMOPHOBIC PEJORATIVES AMONG GAMERS A Critical Discourse Analysis of Slurs Within the Gaming Sphere

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Desirée Elveljung; [2018-10-16]
    Keywords : Critical Discourse Analysis; online gaming; homophobic slurs; LGBT;

    Abstract : Abstract: The aim of this bachelor’s thesis is to analyze how homophobic slurs occur in the online gaming community in order to illustrate discriminatory language among gamers. This thesis also includes those not using such language, and how they react when homophobic slurs occur. READ MORE

  6. 20. The subjective meaning of sexual harassment and sexual assault perpetration: from the perspectives of self-identified perpetrators

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : André Alvinzi; [2018]
    Keywords : Sexual harassment; sexual assault; sexual misconduct; sexual coercion; sexual misconduct;

    Abstract : This thesis explores male sexual assault and sexual harassment perpetration. The theoretical orientations were constituted of a theoretical synthesis of primarily Max Weber's theory of action, motivation and subjective meaning, and theoretical aspects of sensemaking. Four research questions were divided into two qualitative studies. READ MORE