As a female journalist there was a frightening report by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) which found that online violence against women journalists is increasingly spilling offline with potentially deadly consequences.
There has been a steep rise in online violence against female journalists over the last few years and of the 1210 female journalists asked, 73% said they had experienced online abuse, harassment, threats and attacks and 20% of them received offline abuse and attacks.
In 2017, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported that in at least 40% of cases, female journalists who were murdered had received death threats, including online, before they were killed.
Another report by the ICFJ-Tow Center’s Journalism found that social media channels were increasingly toxic spaces for female journalists who were withdrawing from frontline reporting, removing themselves from public online conversations, quitting their jobs, and even abandoning journalism in response to their experience of online violence.
It is not a solution to say that women journalists need to build resilience in order to survive this threat to their safety for daring to speak, investigate and report and the responsibility falls on the Social Media platforms to deal with threats of violence because the reality of journalism for many women is grim and it is understandable why many shy away from it as a career choice.
2 comments:
"Online violence", does that mean saying mean and scary words? Based on all the labels you have used with me (racist, sexist, homophobe, xenophobe) I wouldn't be surprised if you said that I have been violent with you online...
I don't consider yelling at me to be violent. It pisses me off, but violence is when someone actually physically hurts me or physically attempts to hurt me... I recall at one point Cheesy saying he would kick my ass, but he was nowhere to be seen so it was violent words, not violence. Then there was that Australian jerk who said Americans should be killed. Is that "online violence"?
Did this survey include the likes of india, russia, middle east, south america, and africa where women's rights are socially 30 to 50 years behind the US, canada, and western europe? What percentage of the threats were directed at Jewish female journalists?
Social media has certainly advanced faster than societies...
Also, have male journos also experienced an increase in "online violence"? you are really good at selecting facts that advance your views while ignoring facts that create headwinds for your views...
perhaps this has little to do with the sex of journos and more to do with adversaries being able to easily get to each other online...
you say there was an increase, and that 20% report offline abuse (what is abuse exactly?) and attacks (likely a very low percent) but you don't tell us what the rate was before (last few years from a journalist is passive language that could mean anything).
so much passive language in this post.
so few actual data points.
so few meaningful statements.
you get an A/F
A for grammar and spelling
F for content
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