登入選單

返回Google圖書搜尋

The Influences of Misogynist Online Harassment on German Female Journalists and Their Personal and Professional Lives

Nhi Le Vu Phung

出版	Ohio University, 2020
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EH8TzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Although female journalists persistently experience misogynist online harassment while doing their jobs, this topic has yet to receive significant attention in the German journalism landscape. As revealed through seven in-depth interviews with female, German journalists, these experiences include accusations of attention-seeking, attacks against their appearance, discrediting their skills, infantilization, unsolicited images, misogynist slurs and even fantasies about sexual violence and rape. For intersectionally marginalized female journalists, such as Black women, women of color or Jewish women, these experiences are compounded by the addition of racist and anti-Semitic online harassment. As explained by the interviewees, the effects of this harassment are felt in their personal lives: It leads to mental exhaustion, self-doubt, getting used to it as well as to the adoption of additional safety precautions in one's personal life. The harassment also impacts the professional lives of female journalists in the form of withdrawing from social media and/or certain topics, interruptions to one's work, taking additional safety precautions at work and considerations of quitting one's job. In particular, the effects of misogynist online harassment impacted freelancing female journalists whose professional lives are generally more precarious than those of their salaried peers. As a result, all interviewees were unanimous in their demand of fundamental changes both within the newsroom and in society.