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Media framing of trolling and online abuse: silencing strategies, symbolic violence and victim blaming
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posted on 2017-03-22, 11:28 authored by Karen Lumsden, Heather M. MorganThis article draws on British newspaper reports in order to demonstrate that trolling, and the media’s subsequent framing of trolling, involves “silencing strategies”. It is important to examine how trolling is discussed within the media to understand how it might frame public opinion, debate and action, and implicitly victim blame. The article presents findings on: the forms of (online) abuse and behaviours related to trolling in media reports, including rape threats, death threats and body shaming. It also explores the media portrayal of victims of trolling, and the advice given concerning how to respond to trolls. To comply with the message to women, which is propagated in media and popular discourses: “do not feed the troll”, means that “symbolic violence” is exercised with the complicity of the victim(s) of trolling, which has broader implications.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
Feminist Media StudiesVolume
17Issue
6Citation
LUMSDEN, K. and MORGAN, H.M., 2017. Media framing of trolling and online abuse: silencing strategies, symbolic violence and victim blaming. Feminist Media Studies, 17 (6), pp.926-940.Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-03-01Publication date
2017Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Feminist Media Studies on 27 Apr 2017, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1316755.ISSN
1468-0777eISSN
1471-5902Publisher version
Language
- en