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"Women online suffer a disproportionate amount of harm and abuse, but it isn’t
all based on their gender. This “cyber violence” is also shaped by a range of
other intersecting factors such as race, religion, class, caste and disability.
Our ongoing research involves collecting case studies from both India and
Australia to understand how various marginalised identities can impact young
women’s experiences of online violence, and how social media companies –
including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram – aren’t doing enough to stop it.
India is a rich case study for this research, as it’s a country where women
have many different expressions of identity in large numbers – and where there
remains a lot of racial, religious and social tension across society.
However, although Australia and India have significantly different cultures,
women in both countries fall victim to online crimes, including cyber stalking
and cyber harassment. And those with marginalised identities have to deal with
more more stigma and targeting.
What’s worse is platform content moderators are failing to recognise this cyber
violence – often because they don’t understand the nuance and contexts in which
stigmas operate."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
