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Journalists are prepared for critical situations … but we are not prepared for this: empirical and structural dimensions of gendered online Harassment

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dc.contributor.authorSampaio-Dias, Susana
dc.contributor.authorSilveirinha, Maria João
dc.contributor.authorGarcez, Bibiana
dc.contributor.authorSubtil, Filipa
dc.contributor.authorMiranda, João
dc.contributor.authorCerqueira, Carla
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-21T13:58:46Z
dc.date.available2025-01-21T13:58:46Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses online harassment against women journalists exploring self-reported incidents, effects, and trust in safety mechanisms. Drawing on twenty-five semi-structured interviews of women journalists in Portugal, we use a feminist and critical realist framework to explore the causal structures and generative mechanisms that explain their vulnerability to online abuse. We identify three overarching themes: increasing visibility in a context of higher hostility towards journalism and insufficient safety mechanisms; intersectional gender inequality and cultural mores that foster it; and (individual) responses to harassment. These themes show that women journalists’ actions are both constrained and enabled by existing structures and cultural attitudes. While they tend to deny harassment is caused by their gender, seeing it mainly because of their job, they admit the sexualised and gendered nature of the insults, seeing this as an added offence not experienced by their male counterparts. They also see harassment as a continuation of inequality and prevailing sexism and find the protection mechanisms insufficient and ineffective. As a result, they assume an extra burden of emotional labour to deal with online bullying, admitting self-censoring and the need to develop resilience strategies.eng
dc.identifier.citationSampaio-Dias, S., Silveirinha, M.J., Garcez, B., Subtil, F., Miranda, J., & Cerqueira, C. (2024). Journalists are prepared for critical situations … but we are not prepared for this: Empirical and structural dimensions of gendered online Harassment. In K.S. Orgeret, O. Westlund & R. Krovel (eds.), Journalism and safety digital threats, professional fragilities, and safety cultures (pp.132-150). Routledge.
dc.identifier.isbn9781032881942
dc.identifier.isbn9781003544517
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/21335
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectWomen journalistsen
dc.subjectOnlineharassmenten
dc.subjectJournalists’safetyen
dc.subjectEmotional labouren
dc.subjectCritical realismen
dc.subjectNormalisationen
dc.titleJournalists are prepared for critical situations … but we are not prepared for this: empirical and structural dimensions of gendered online Harassmenteng
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oaire.citation.endPage150
oaire.citation.startPage132
oaire.citation.titleJournalism and safety digital threats, professional fragilities, and safety cultures
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