Women scholars’ experiences with online harassment and abuse: Self-protection, resistance, acceptance, and self-blame
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Issue Date
2018
Editor
Authors
Veletsianos, George
Houlden, Shandell
Hodson, Jaigris
Gosse, Chandell
License
Subject
Women scholars
Harassment
Harassment
Abstract
Although scholars increasingly use online platforms for public, digital, and networked scholarship, the research examining their experiences of harassment and abuse online is scant. In this study, we interviewed 14 women scholars who experienced online harassment in order to understand how they coped with this phenomenon. We found that scholars engaged in reactive, anticipatory, preventive, and proactive coping strategies. In particular, scholars engaged in strategies aimed at self-protection and resistance, while often responding to harassment by acceptance and self-blame. These findings have important implications for practice and research, including practical recommendations for personal, institutional, and platform responses to harassment, as well as scholarly recommendations for future research into scholars’ experiences of harassment.
Description
This is a post-peer review version of the article. The publisher’s copy is available at
https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818781324