• DOI:10.1080/14680777.2012.741073
Corpus ID: 145299836

“Your a Ugly, Whorish, Slut”

@article{Jane2014YourAU,
  title={“Your a Ugly, Whorish, Slut”},
  author={E. Jane},
  journal={Feminist Media Studies},
  year={2014},
  volume={14},
  pages={531 - 546}
}

• E. Jane
• Published 2014
• Sociology
• Feminist Media Studies

In recent years, the mainstream media has identified on-line vitriol as a worsening problem which is silencing women in public discourse, and is having a deleterious effect on the civility of the public cybersphere. This article examines the disconnect between representations of “e-bile” in media texts, and representations of e-bile in academic literature. An exhaustive review of thirty years of academic work on “flaming” shows that many theorists have routinely trivialized the experiences of… Expand