Digital Harms and Gendered Violence: Navigating Crime, Technology , and Victimization

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

The ubiquity of digital technologies means individuals increasingly turn to these technologies to communicate, build relationships, share intimacies, and advocate for justice. Nevertheless, this engagement remains unequal, as such platforms are disproportionately used against women and girls to objectify, threaten, blame and marginalize them. The papers in this panel explore how this harm occurs, at both interpersonal and institutional levels, by (i) investigating the role of technology in image-based sexual abuse and its consequences for victim-survivors, and (ii) examining the limitations of new technologies in criminal justice responses to gendered violence.

Sub Unit

• Area IV. Correlates of Crime / 32. Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Individual Presentations

• Male Peer Support of Image-Based Sexual Abuse as Understood in Hulu’s Pam and Tommy - Analisa Gagnon, Sacred Heart University

• Gender Differences in Cyber Sextortion - Roberta Liggett O'Malley, University of South Florida

• Victim-survivors and Digital Evidence in Sexual Assault Proceedings - Anna Gjika, SUNY New Paltz

• #MeToo Technologies: Political Whiteness and Anti-Violence Reporting Apps - Kathryn Henne, The Australian National University