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Dick pics on blast: A woman’s resistance to online sexual harassment using humour, art and Instagram
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This article brings to attention and explores women’s use of non-traditional forms of resistance to online sexual harassment. In this piece we use Anna Gensler’s Instagram art project Instagranniepants to examine how women are appropriating the language and practices of the cyber realm to expose online sexual harassment and to engender a creative resistance which is critical, comedic and entertaining. Drawing from interdisciplinary literature on witnessing, satire and shaming, we explore the techniques Gensler uses to not only document harassment but also resist, engage and punish those who seek to perpetrate it. This article problematises the stereotype of women as passive victims of online public spaces, and is critical of popular discourses that portray online spaces as exclusively risky and that position women as the natural victims of online violence. It concludes that a more nuanced account of women’s negotiation of online spaces is necessary, particularly as an overarching narrative of risk and victimisation undermines the liberatory potential of the online realm.
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“Through the drawings and group discussion, then, the girls sometimes collectively challenged the normalisation of online sexual harassment via unwanted images, laughing and using sarcasm”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Vitis, L., & Gilmour, F.
- Affiliations
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- University of Otago (NZ)
- Corresponding author
- Vitis, Laura
- Venue
- Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2016-06-24
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 335-355
- ISSN
- 1741-6590 (ISSN-L)
- 1741-6604
- OpenAlex
- W2463218703
- Cited by
- 153
- References
- 83
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 8
- FWCI
- 26.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Crime Media Culture An International Journal (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Keywords
- online sexual harassment, women's resistance, humour, satire, Instagram, witnessing, shaming, online public space, victimhood, online risks, cyberbullying
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