News & Views Trolling, threats, and silence: Why women of colour are fleeing public life Online trolling often targets marginalized women and can have severe consequences, including forced relocation and career abandonment.
News & Views ‘Online actions, offline consequences’: What can we do when disrespect online harms women and girls? The days of thinking about the online world and physical worlds as separate spaces are done. Really. There is no delineation any more.
News & Views Criminalising doxing may not be the silver bullet but it’s a solid start in protecting people’s safety A critical examination of doxing’s devastating effects on individuals and society, driving the call for legal reform, cultural change, and a unified approach to online safety and privacy protection.
News & Views Young people want governments & social media giants to do more on gender-based online harassment Youth activists from Australia, Indonesia and Vietnam are calling on governments and social media companies to create safer online spaces.
News & Views Police have a responsibility to respond as strongly to the online harassment of women as they did for Dylan Grimes We know women experience serious online harassment and abuse at higher rates than men. So why are police letting so many women down?
News & Views Leigh Sales showed us the abuse women cop online. When are we going to stop tolerating misogyny? Research shows one in five Australian women experience degrading content online. This is not ‘harmless’ or ‘normal’, writes Louise Richardson-Self.
News & Views Sportswomen face overwhelming sexism on social media, study finds More than a quarter of all social media comments directed towards sportswomen are sexist, sexualised, belittling or otherwise negative in nature.