Special issue on online misogyny
@article{Ging2018SpecialIO, title={Special issue on online misogyny}, author={Debbie Ging and Eugenia Siapera}, journal={Feminist Media Studies}, year={2018}, volume={18}, pages={515 - 524} }
Abstract This special issue seeks to identify and theorise the complex relationships between online culture, technology and misogyny. It asks how the internet’s anti-woman spaces and discourses have been transformed by the technological affordances of new digital platforms, and whether they are borne of the same types of discontents articulated in older forms of anti-feminism, or to what extent they might articulate a different constellation of social, cultural and gender-political factors…
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