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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi all,<br>
<br>
A friend of mine who's a stand-up comedian gets a lot of online
abuse </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">(depressingly common for more or less all
high-profile women)<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">,
and she </font></font></font>had a really nasty one on 30
April. She's managing it all well, but I thought this one could be
useful for many of you in illustrating gendered online abuse in
teaching and/or research. The first tweet thread was here:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/JosieLong/status/726368251991719937">https://twitter.com/JosieLong/status/726368251991719937</a><br>
<br>
(The photo is a collage with one of her online promo photos in the
bottom right, and the rest a load of murder victims. Super creepy
to say the least.)<br>
<br>
As I say she gets loads of this sort of thing</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">,
</font>but this was a particularly grim example so she decided to
take it to the police. She mentioned it again later the same day:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/JosieLong/status/726509972352319488">https://twitter.com/JosieLong/status/726509972352319488</a><br>
<br>
Then she reported back about the toothless police response here:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/JosieLong/status/727412615186669569">https://twitter.com/JosieLong/status/727412615186669569</a><br>
<br>
So those examples together could form useful discussion points or
illustrative examples. She has other tweets about online abuse
occasionally - very restrained really given the amount of it she
gets - so you may like to follow her for further examples. And as
always the subsequent replies and spinoff discussions are of
similar interest. And besides that she's a very uplifting tweeter,
so worth following her in general!<br>
<br>
And if you'd like to see Josie perform (she's really very funny
and insightful) her tour dates are here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ents24.com/uk/tour-dates/josie-long">https://www.ents24.com/uk/tour-dates/josie-long</a>. She also mentions
most of her dates on Twitter, though usually at shorter notice.<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
<br>
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Dr. Dave Sayers
Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics
Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:d.sayers@shu.ac.uk">d.sayers@shu.ac.uk</a>
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