Online Abuse and How to Fight Back
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Nina Jankowicz coined the term “gendered and sexualised disinformation” in 2017. In 2020, she led a pioneering research study looking at its effects in the U.S. election. In 2022, she herself became a target of a widespread online hate campaign that used the very tactics she had studied. Drawing from this research and her book How to Be a Woman Online, Jankowicz will demonstrate how malign actors use gendered and sexualised disinformation to silence women and people of marginalised identities and provide tips for holding one’s digital ground and fighting back against online harassment.
Date: 8 February 2023, 12:30 (Wednesday, 4th week, Hilary 2023)
Venue: 1 St Giles', 1 St Giles' OX1 3JS
Venue Details: In-person and online
Speaker: Nina Jankowicz (Centre for information Resilience)
Organising department: Oxford Internet Institute
Organiser contact email address: events@oii.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/online-abuse-and-how-to-fight-back/
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Elicia Styler