Mediating Misogyny is a collection of original academic essays that foregrounds the intersection of gender, technology, and media. Framed and informed by feminist theory, the book offers empirical research and nuanced theoretical analysis about the gender-based harassment women experience both online and offline. The contributors of this volume provide information on the ways feminist activists are using digital tools to combat harassment, raise awareness, and organize for social and political change across the globe. Lastly, the book provides practical resources and tips to help students, educators, institutions, and researchers stop online harassment.

This book provides an accessible space for interdisciplinary scholarship and narrative through an analysis of the power of media and sports, focusing on the intersectionality of identity, politics, social justice, and social movements within this context. Contributors examine how identities coalesce in sports and discuss the ways in which sports provide spaces for marginalized communities and create unique platforms that shift how society defines identity. Athletes' identities and actions-and mass media's representation thereof-can influence both the perceptions of society as a whole and how individuals view themselves, contributors argue. Each chapter delves into how different aspects of identity, including race, gender, disability, and sexuality, have developed and influenced social change, with a strong focus on lived experiences of both scholars and athletes from marginalized communities. Scholars of media studies, communication, sociology, and kinesiology may find this book particularly useful.

Tough topics are inescapable for journalism and mass communication academics. If it's in the news, journalism and mass communication instructors have to discuss it in class. This volume brings together a broad range of perspectives, from graduate students to deans, in conversation about ways to address tough topics in and out of the university classroom. This book helps journalism and mass communication instructors navigate today's toughest topics through discussions of the issues and pertinent terminology and by giving hands-on exercises and practical advice for instructors at all levels of the university. Chapters address issues ranging from student mental health to handling campus free speech controversies as an administrator to addressing sexual assault and harassment, racial and ethnic inequality, disability, and other issues in the classroom. Using case studies ranging from #MeToo to the president's tweets to student mental health crises, this book aims to become an essential reference for professors tackling tough topics in the classroom. Through these chapters, readers will gain an understanding of the issues and will be given tools to address these topics in sensitive, yet forthright, ways.

Tough topics are inescapable for journalism and mass communication academics. If it's in the news, journalism and mass communication instructors have to discuss it in class. This volume brings together a broad range of perspectives, from graduate students to deans, in conversation about ways to address tough topics in and out of the university classroom. This book helps journalism and mass communication instructors navigate today's toughest topics through discussions of the issues and pertinent terminology and by giving hands-on exercises and practical advice for instructors at all levels of the university. Chapters address issues ranging from student mental health to handling campus free speech controversies as an administrator to addressing sexual assault and harassment, racial and ethnic inequality, disability, and other issues in the classroom. Using case studies ranging from #MeToo to the president's tweets to student mental health crises, this book aims to become an essential reference for professors tackling tough topics in the classroom. Through these chapters, readers will gain an understanding of the issues and will be given tools to address these topics in sensitive, yet forthright, ways.

Mediating Misogyny is a collection of original academic essays that foregrounds the intersection of gender, technology, and media. Framed and informed by feminist theory, the book offers empirical research and nuanced theoretical analysis about the gender-based harassment women experience both online and offline. The contributors of this volume provide information on the ways feminist activists are using digital tools to combat harassment, raise awareness, and organize for social and political change across the globe. Lastly, the book provides practical resources and tips to help students, educators, institutions, and researchers stop online harassment.

Examining the evolving reach of the #MeToo MovementIn this timely and important collection, editors Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen bring together the work of contributors in the fields of criminal justice and criminology, sociology, journalism, and communications. These chapters show #MeToo is not only a support network of victims' voices and testimonies but also a revolutionary interrogation of policies, power imbalances, and ethical failures that resulted in decades-long cover-ups and institutions structured to ensure continued abuse. This book reveals #MeToo as so much more than a hashtag. Contributors discuss how #MeToo has altered the landscape of higher education; detail a political history of sexual abuse in the United States and the UK; discuss a recent grand jury report about religious institutions; and address the foster care and correctional systems. Hollywood instances are noted for their fear of retaliation among victims and continued accolades for alleged abusers. In sports, contributors examine the Jerry Sandusky scandal and the abuse by Larry Nassar. Advertising and journalism are scrutinized for covering the #MeToo disclosures while dealing with their own scandals. Finally, social media platforms are investigated for harassment and threats of violent victimization. Drawing on the general framework of the #MeToo Movement, contributors look at complex and very different institutions-athletics, academia, religion, politics, justice, childcare, social media, and entertainment. Contributors include revelatory case studies to ensure we hear the victims' voices; bring to light the complicity and negligence of social institutions; and advocate for systemic solutions to institutional sexual abuse, violence, and harassment.