Gendertrolling: Misogyny adapts to new media

Feminist Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 563-570

  Mantilla, Karla ^a  

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EID: 84889851359     PISSN: 00463663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (17)

1. Whitney Phillips, "What an Academic Who Wrote Her Dissertation on Trolls Thinks of Violentacrez," The Atlantic, October 15, 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/what-an-academic-who- wroteher- dissertation-on-trolls-thinks-of-violentacrez/263631.
2. For a discussion on the infamous troll site 4chan, see Alyse Wax's interview with film director Michael Gallagher, "Exclusive: We Talk Trolls and Death Threats With 'Smiley' Director Michael Gallagher," Fearnet, February 11, 2013, http://www.fearnet.com/news/interview/exclusive-we- talktrolls- and-death-threats-smiley-director-michael-gallagher.
3. For a discussion about racist trolling and its impact, see Latoya Livingstone and Kenneth Mallory, "Anonymous Trolling: How Does Online Racism Affect Broadband Adoption?" Broadband and Social Justice, May 7, 2012, http://broadbandandsocialjustice.org/2012/05/anonymous-trolling-howdoes- online-racism-affect-broadband-adoption
4. and Jack Craver, "Anonymous Trolls use Racism, Death Threats to Provoke Anti-mining Protesters," The Capital Times, July 18, 2013, http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/ jack-craver/anonymous-trolls-use- racism-death-threats-to-provoke-antimining/ article-dda51d5e-ef4b-11e2-a511- 0019bb2963f4.html.
5. For a discussion of ableist trolling, see Mary Elizabeth Williams, "A Cruel Letter Brings out the Trolls," Salon, August 20, 2013, http://www.salon.com/2013/08/20/ a-cruel-letter-brings-out-the-trolls.
6. On August 3, 2013, in support of a Twitter boycott protesting of the verbal abuse of women on Twitter, columnist Caitlin Moran wrote, "In the last few weeks, I've seen women on Twitter being run to exhaustion by the volume of anonymous rape and violence tweets they've received - so many that even just blocking them is a full time job." See Caitlin Moran's blog on Twitlonger, http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n-1rlnp1i.
7. Moran elaborates on her own blog "consider the logistics of this. If a woman is getting fifty of these messages an hour, blocking all the abusers becomes something of a thankless, full-time job." See http://www. caitlinmoran.co.uk/ index.php/by-caitlin-moran.
8. See James McCarthy, "Internet Trolls Launch Hate Campaign Against Single Mum," Wales Online, August 25, 2013, http://www.walesonline.co.uk/ news/wales-news/internet-trolls-launch-hate-campaign-5781778.
9. See Kelly Diels, "Women's Free Speech is under Attack," Salon, August 13, 2013, http://www.salon.com/2013/08/13/womens-free-speech-is-under- attack/?utm-content=buffer159da&utm-source=buffer&utm-medium= facebook&utm-campaign=Buffer.
10. Rebecca Watson, "It Stands to Reason, Skeptics Can Be Sexist Too," Slate, October 24, 2012, http://www.slate.com/articles/double-x/ doublex/2012/10/sexism-in-the-skeptic-community-i-spoke-out-then-came-the-rape- threats.html.
11. See Anita Sarkeesian, "TedxWomen Talk about Online Harrassment and Cyber Mobs," Feminist Frequency, December 5, 2012, http://www. feministfrequency. com/2012/12/tedxwomen-talk-on-sexist-harassment-cyber-mobs .
12. Lindy West, "If Comedy Has No Lady Problem, Why Am I Getting So Many Rape Threats?" Jezebel, June 4, 2013, http://jezebel.com/if-comedy-has- nolady- problem-why-am-i-getting-so-many-511214385.
13. http://www.salon.com/2013/08/13/womens-free-speech-is-under-attack/? utm-content=buffer159da&utm-source=buffer&utm-medium=facebook& utm-campaign=Buffer.
14. See Diels, "Women's Free Speech is under Attack." 13. Ibid.
15. Sarkeesian, "TedxWomen Talk about Online Harrassment." 15. http://freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag/2012/09/goodbye-for-now.
16. For example, see the activist websites http://www.ihollaback.org
17. http://www.stopstreetharassment.org.