Good afternoon from Team TrollBusters! Today our founder @mediaghosts is at this panel along with @SocMedDr, @emmahvossen, @SuzieMDunn and more discussing the role technology plays in accelerating online violence. Find some valuable excerpts from the session below:
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Moderator Jaigris Hodson (@SocMedDr) introduced the panelists and asked them how their work intersects with technology and abuse.
Team TrollBusters founder @mediaghosts begins by introducing our work. In our research we have found that 63% journalists had been threatened online, 58% in person, 28% were physically attacked. 1/10 of our respondents received death threats through digital means.
She touches on how our goal is to provide digital security and online protection through our tools such as educational modules, our global resource hub, our infographic below which explains how reporters can handle online abuse, etc.
Next legal academic @SuzieMDunn explains how her work covers how governments moderate online content. Currently she is working on how tech-facilitated violence affects individuals and what are some solutions for that.
Dr. Abby Ferber then shares her personal experience of how she and her close associates received online threats, abusive letters, etc. for their work relating to white supremacist groups.
Then @emmahvossen who studies women and gaming culture shares she received online abuse for her research. Over time the more she researched gaming, the more harassment she got.
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