Online Harassment

Many associate online harassment with extreme cases, such cyberbullying and teenage suicide, or cyberstalking leading to physical sexual harassment. Antisocial behaviors associated with all forms of online harassment are more pervasive than most people realize. In this section, we review research on the state of online harassment and consider how leading social media sites attempt to manage the challenge.

“Nearly three quarters of internet users—73 percent—have witnessed online harassment.” —Maeve Duggan^[1]

Annotation - Research on Online Harassment

Read this eight-page research report on online harassment (click through the next page prompts at the bottom of each page).

Online Harassment from the Pew Research Center. Retrieved July 7, 2017.

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The Response from Social Media

Suggested Practices

Commentary

Twitter Tries New Measures in Crackdown on Harassment from CNN tech;
Using Digital Fingerprints and Deep Learning to Fight Online Harassment from Forbes;
At Facebook We Get Things Wrong – But We take our Safety Role Seriously from the Guardian.

References

Duggan, M. (2014, October 22). Online Harassment. Pew Research Center Retrieved July 7, 2017. Pew Research Center.

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