Journal
NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
Volume 20, Issue 12, Pages 4689-4708Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1461444818781324
Keywords
Abuse and harassment; faculty harassment; female harassment; networked scholarship; online harassment; online participation; public scholarship; scholars' online experiences
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- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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Although scholars increasingly use online platforms for public, digital, and networked scholarship, the research examining their experiences of harassment and abuse online is scant. In this study, we interviewed 14 women scholars who experienced online harassment in order to understand how they coped with this phenomenon. We found that scholars engaged in reactive, anticipatory, preventive, and proactive coping strategies. In particular, scholars engaged in strategies aimed at self-protection and resistance, while often responding to harassment by acceptance and self-blame. These findings have important implications for practice and research, including practical recommendations for personal, institutional, and platform responses to harassment, as well as scholarly recommendations for future research into scholars' experiences of harassment.
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