Cyberhate: the new digital divide?

该项目旨在调查最近针对在线妇女的强奸威胁和性化硫酸的显著增加对在线参与和数字公民身份构成的威胁。虽然网络欺凌研究人员研究了社交媒体平台和互联网上的敌意话语，以确定其对青年的影响，但关于其对妇女和成年目标的影响的研究很少。这个项目将使用互联网史学新领域的方法来绘制性别化网络仇恨的新兴现象。它将为数字公民身份的研究做出重大贡献，并填补了在了解在线仇恨言论的性质和影响方面的重大研究空白。

This project aims to investigate the threat posed to online participation and digital citizenship by the recent, marked increase in rape threats and sexualised vitriol directed at women online. While hostile discourse on social media platforms and the internet has been studied by cyberbullying researchers to determine its impact on youth, there is little scholarship on its effect on women and on adult targets. This project will map the emergent phenomenon of gendered cyberhate using approaches from the new field of internet historiography. It will make a major contribution to the study of digital citizenship and fill a significant research gap in understanding the nature and impact of hate speech online.