Online Harassment: What Drives It and How It Lowers Visions

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Published on Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Written by Media Evolution

Media Evolution: The Conference is an international conference organized annually in Malmö, Sweden. On August 21, 2013 Anita Sarkeesian, Kate Miltner and Laurie Penny spoke at a session entitled "Online Harassment: What Drives It and How It Lowers Visions". The harassment of people online is emerging as one of the biggest issues on the internet. It's a topic that thankfully has gained much attention in the media recently. In this session we want to examine what the drivers of hate online are and why it's so important to work against it.

Anita Sarkeesian is a media critic and the creator of Feminist Frequency, a video webseries that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives.

Kate Miltner is an internet researcher whose interests focus on online behavior and networked cultures. She received her MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics in 2011, and most recently has worked as a Research Consultant for Microsoft Research New England.The harassment of people online is emerging as one of the biggest issues on the internet. It's a topic that thankfully has gained much attention in the media recently. In this session we want to examine what the drivers of hate online are and why it's so important to work against it.

Laurie Penny is a journalist, author and Contributing Editor at New Statesman magazine. She has written for The Guardian, Vice, Salon, The Nation and many others, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2010 and is a commentator on radical politics, feminism, pop culture and protest.The harassment of people online is emerging as one of the biggest issues on the internet. It's a topic that thankfully has gained much attention in the media recently. In this session we want to examine what the drivers of hate online are and why it's so important to work against it.

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