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- Apologies for cross-posting - Online Misogyny and Sexual Harassment Gender & Sexualities Research Forum (GSRF) at City University London Wednesday 17 June 5-7pm Rooms A107 and A108, College Building<http://www.city.ac.uk/visit/campuses/northampton-square/college-building> St John Street London EC1V 4PB Online spaces such as blogs, forums and Twitter are invaluable resources for feminist communities. However, due to its nature, the Internet also expands the space available for misogynistic discourses to spread and be heard and - as the cases of Caroline Criado-Perez and Mary Beard demonstrate - provides an outlet for 'trolls' to enact vitriolic attacks on women who publicly voice their opinions. Whilst encouraging progress has been made in increasing public and corporate awareness, we still have much to learn about this problem and about how we can start to tackle it. This seminar will discuss new research into the online harassment of women and explore how academic work can start to answer some of these questions. Topics up for discussion include: what methods can we use to track harassment on large social media platforms? What is the role of the law in addressing cyber-hate against women? What would a more ethical Internet look like and how might this be achieved? Speakers: Marianne Franklin (Goldsmiths, University of London): Title TBC Marianne Franklin is Professor of Global Media and Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is a member of the Centre for Feminist Research. Active in research and advocacy on human rights issues and the internet, she has served as co-Chair of the Internet Rights and Principles Coalition at the UN Internet Governance Forum and is currently chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet<http://giga-net.org/>). Her latest book is Digital Dilemmas; Power, Resistance and the Internet (Oxford University Press, 2013). Olga Jurasz (Open University): "Online Misogyny and Social Media: A Challenge for (Legal) Regulation" Olga Jurasz is a lecturer in law at the Open University Law School. Her main research interests are public international law, human rights and legal regulation of gender-based violence. She has been recently working on a collaborative project addressing gender, cyberviolence and law. Carl Miller (Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, Demos): "Researching Misogyny on Twitter" Carl Miller is the Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos. It is the first British think tank unit dedicated to researching and understanding the digital world. He develops new ways of understanding social media as a new part of social and political life. He wrote a weekly column on digital politics for The Sunday Times and is a social media commentator for Sky. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College, London. Chair: Laura Thompson ** Talks and discussion followed by refreshments at 7pm ** For more information or to join the GSRF mailing list, contact Laura García-Favaro on: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid “engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list.” For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------