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2024-03-29T05:36:25ZWomen journalists in the pandemics of digital hate: A time where less is more
https://hdl.handle.net/10316/100107
Title: Women journalists in the pandemics of digital hate: A time where less is more
Authors: Costa, Bruno Frutuoso
Abstract: Digital platforms quickly became prevalent over physical public space, allowing
debates, interactions, and activism to flourish. With women journalists contributing significantly
to the formation of a vibrant digital public space, offline violence has adapted and evolved with
digital platforms. Since 2015, the safety of journalists has profiled as an object of research in the
field of communication sciences. Researchers identify, explore, and analyze the nature,
prevalence, mediums of support and impacts, both personal and journalistic, of new aggressions
specific to the digital environment, which aim to discredit, condition, and silence female
participation. However, the wide diversity of terms and definitions used by academics has made
it difficult to identify the phenomenon of digital violence against journalists and what would be
the appropriate way to legislate it, to guarantee a protection of rights adapted to the digital
environment. Based on scientific papers that have carried out a systematic review of terms used
in previous research to characterize digital violence against women journalists, we intend to
identify the best way to conceptually characterize the phenomenon and which issues need to
be considered for a legislation of journalists' safety in digital arena.2022-05-03T00:00:00ZNew Media, Old Misogyny: Framing mediated Madonna on Instagram from an Ageing Perspective
https://hdl.handle.net/10316/95776
Title: New Media, Old Misogyny: Framing mediated Madonna on Instagram from an Ageing Perspective
Authors: Simões, Rita Basílio; Amaral, Inês; Santos, Sofia José; Brites, Maria José
Abstract: Online and offline realms are not detached one from the other but are rather convergent and mutually reinforcing. Over the past decade, as the so-called
“digital era” emerged and expanded, expressions of misogynist beliefs started to burgeon within the online realm. On par with male misogynist individualised
agency, there has also been a growth of what has been labelled the manosphere.
Although mainly revolving around gender identities and roles, the manosphere is profoundly tied to conservative imaginaries of race, nationality, sexuality, religion
and, we argue, age. Taking into account the feminist argument the personal is political, that age and gender are intersecting categories, and that the digital is a central
realm in collective and connective action, this paper draws an exploratory study on how patriarchy and ageism inform the politics of the #manosphere, exploring
at the same time how the digital realm makes this convergence and result prolific concerning manosphere’s agenda and mobilisation.2021-01-01T00:00:00ZDebunking the #Manosphere: An Exploratory Analysis on Patriarchy and Ageism Within the Digital Realm
https://hdl.handle.net/10316/95775
Title: Debunking the #Manosphere: An Exploratory Analysis on Patriarchy and Ageism Within the Digital Realm
Authors: Santos, Sofia José; Amaral, Inês; Simões, Rita Basílio; Brites, Maria José
Abstract: Online and offline realms are not detached one from the other but are
rather convergent and mutually reinforcing. Over the past decade, as the so-called
“digital era” emerged and expanded, expressions of misogynist beliefs started
to burgeon within the online realm. On par with male misogynist individualised
agency, there has also been a growth of what has been labelled the manosphere.
Although mainly revolving around gender identities and roles, the manosphere is
profoundly tied to conservative imaginaries of race, nationality, sexuality, religion
and, we argue, age. Taking into account the feminist argument the personal is political, that age and gender are intersecting categories, and that the digital is a central
realm in collective and connective action, this paper draws an exploratory study
on how patriarchy and ageism inform the politics of the #manosphere, exploring
at the same time how the digital realm makes this convergence and result prolific
concerning manosphere’s agenda and mobilisation.2021-01-01T00:00:00ZHate Speech in social media: perceptions and attitudes of higher education students in Portugal
https://hdl.handle.net/10316/88934
Title: Hate Speech in social media: perceptions and attitudes of higher education students in Portugal
Authors: Santos, Sílvio; Amaral, Inês; Simões, Rita Basílio
Abstract: Hate speech in social media has been an increasing concern, particularly during the last decade. Today,
the rates of technology adoption are very high, particularly among the younger groups. Students are
permanently connected through mobile technologies and the explosion of social media led to major
changes in the flows of communication. Social platforms became the chosen vehicle for personal
communication, for getting the news and for entertainment. At the same time, social media reflects the
growing ideological polarization that is particularly visible on politics, religion, environmental and gender
and sexuality issues. Hate speech is not a new phenomenon but it has specific characteristics in the
online world that pose new challenges. International organizations have been promoting initiatives to
support countries in tackling this issue. Social media platforms are also defining rules against diverse
forms of intolerance particularly directed at vulnerable groups. Currently, there is a growing body of
feminist research that has mainly focused on identifying how social media platforms can be toxic
environments for women, namely by facilitating image-based sexual abuses and the sexual
objectification of women and girls.
Higher education students are a critical group regarding this problem. Not only they are permanently
connected, but they are also frequently less prepared to deal with disinformation and discriminatory
digital interactions than they think. In this qualitative study, we want to know how higher education
students in Portugal deal with online hate speech, particularly gender-focused hate speech. We present
results from four focus groups that were conducted with both Portuguese and Brazilian students (n =
28). Findings promote a deeper understanding of the proliferation of hate speech on social media,
particularly towards female foreign students and point at the importance of promoting curricular and
extra-curricular literacy programs, as well as mechanisms of monitoring on social platforms.2020-03-11T00:00:00Z