Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) History (SAGE Swifts) PDF
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sage swifts In 1976 SAGE published a series of short ‘university papers’, which led to the publication of the QASS series (or the ‘little green books’ as they became known to researchers). Almost 40 years since the release of the first ‘little green book’, SAGE is delighted to offer a new series of swift, short and topical pieces in the ever-growing digital environment. SAGE Swifts offer authors a new channel for academic research with the freedom to deliver work outside the conventional length of journal articles. The series aims to give authors speedy access to academic audiences through digital first publication, space to explore ideas thoroughly, yet at a length which can be readily digested, and the quality stamp and reassurance of peer-review. . sage swifts sage swifts In 1976 SAGE published a series of short ‘university papers’, which led to the publication of the QASS series (or the ‘little green books’ as they became known to researchers). Almost 40 years since the release of the first ‘little green book’, SAGE is delighted to offer a new series of swift, short and topical pieces in the ever-growing digital environment. SAGE Swifts offer authors a new channel for academic research with the freedom to deliver work outside the conventional length of journal articles. The series aims to give authors speedy access to academic audiences through digital first publication, space to explore ideas thoroughly, yet at a length which can be readily digested, and the quality stamp and reassurance of peer-review. . sage swifts SAGE Publications Ltd Emma A. Jane 2017 1 Oliver’s Yard 55 City Road First published 2017 London EC1Y 1SP Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of SAGE Publications Inc. research or private study, or criticism or review, as 2455 Teller Road permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Thousand Oaks, California 91320 Act, 1988, this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form, or by any means, only with SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in B 1/I 1 Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance Mathura Road with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright New Delhi 110 044 Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. SAGE Publications Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd 3 Church Street #10-04 Samsung Hub Singapore 049483 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016950758 Editor: Natalie Aguilera Editorial assistant: Delayna Spencer British Library Cataloguing in Publication data Production editor: Vanessa Harwood Marketing manager: Sally Ransom A catalogue record for this book is available from Cover design: Jen Crisp the British Library Typeset by: C&M Digitals (P) Ltd, Chennai, India Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY ISBN 978-1-4739-1600-5 eISBN 978-1-4739-2715-5 At SAGE we take sustainability seriously. Most of our products are printed in the UK using FSC papers and boards. When we print overseas we ensure sustainable papers are used as measured by the PREPS grading system. We undertake an annual audit to monitor our sustainability. This book is for all those dudes who aren’t calling women ‘ugly, fat, and slutty’ online, and who only send photos of their man parts if a lady or gentleman of the interweb asks very nicely first. You guys are rad and I love your work. If R.D. Laing was correct in saying ‘few books are forgivable,’ then it’s surely the case that fewer still are necessary. This book is. Emma Jane has taken some well-worn media and cultural studies orthodoxies and subjected them to a series of trenchant, persuasive, and often laugh-out-loud criti- cisms. People analysing cybersphere culture and discourse cannot afford to ignore this book. Chris Fleming, Western Sydney University Misogyny Online is a rigorous, necessary and at times terrifying exploration of one of the most pressing and rapidly growing forms of harassment and abuse of women and girls today. Dr Jane’s interrogation of the rhetoric of sexualised, gendered violence and the rise of multi-perpetrator attacks on individual women using digital technology is a must-read for a greater understanding of this phenomenon and its impact on democracy, culture and the individual. Tara Moss, author, UNICEF National Ambassador for Child Survival, feminist commentator and human rights advocate. CONTENTS About the author viii Acknowledgements ix Introduction: The Warning Is You Will Receive No Warning 1 1 The Rise of Rapeglish 16 2 Why It Is So 43 3 Hitting Home 53 4 The Blame Game 76 5 Epic Institutional Fails 88 6 Conclusion: The Electronic Equivalent of Everywhere 112 References 118 Index 139 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Emma A. Jane (formerly published as Emma Tom) is an award-winning scholar and author who has been called fat, ugly, and slutty on the internet since the late 1990s. Misogyny online is the focus of her ongoing research into the social and ethical implications of emerging technologies. In 2016, Emma received the Anne Dunn Scholar Award for excellence in research about communication and journalism. This followed her receipt, in 2014, of a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from the Australian government to fund three years of study into gendered cyberhate and digi- tal citizenship. Emma has presented the findings of her research at the Australian Human Rights Commission, and regularly speaks at large, public events such as the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House. Prior to commencing her academic career, she spent nearly 25 years work- ing in the print, broadcast, and electronic media, during which time she won multiple awards for her writing and investigative reporting. These included the 1997 Henry Lawson Award for Journalism, and the 2001 Women’s Electoral Lobby Edna Ryan Humour Award for ‘using wit to pro- mote women’s interests’. Emma has published eight books including a novel, Deadset, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Asia and the South Pacific for Best First Novel in 1998. Her most recent publication, the fifth edition of Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice, was co-authored with Chris Barker and published by SAGE in 2016. Emma is currently a Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Hello and thank you to my refractory gamerdaughter. Small human, I love you heaps. (Also please stop knowing more than me about internet biz like music.ly and stuff RIGHT THIS MINUTE.) Massive thanks to Melanie Andersen. Your public health brain, hard-arse data crunching, take-no- prisoners critiquing, and cyberhate-free internet experience keep forcing me (in the nicest possible way) to re-think and then re-re-think, again. Thank you, Mel. Nicole A Vincent: a big *\o/* for your endlessly gener- ous input into whatever I’m thinking or writing about, but especially into this. (I’m working on a ‘Thank you, Nicole’ generator to assist with the appreciative gushing, but then I’d need your help with the coding, and then I’d need your help making a second-order generator to thank you properly for the first one, and then … well, you know how these things end.) Chris Fleming – thinky jukebox and intellectual über dude: I have to exercise restraint here because someone said you wrote something nice for the back of this book. As such, all I’ll say is thank you for being the fun- niest and smartest biped I know, and also for always answering the phone sponsor-style when I need to admit that I am powerless in the face of my irony problem. Nikki Stevens: please refer to the ‘gratitude’ entry at www. theasuarus.com. Thank you for explaining about the pale ale, for alerting me to all of the things, for all of the checking-ins, and especially for your superlative contrarianism (a description I know you’ll say is all wrong). Thank you, also: to Jennifer Taylor, Marie-Pierre Cleret, Tara Moss, and Chris Rojek; to my colleagues at the University of New South Wales; and to Delayna Spencer and Natalie Aguilera at SAGE. The biggest of all the big thank-you(s)-so-much, however, must go to the 50 women who agreed to be interviewed as part of my cyberhate project. I can’t believe how much I didn’t know before you told me your stories. You guys are ace and I am so very grateful.
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