Gender-based online violence & media attacks
2022-01-28 22:02:01.977678+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Brookings: Gender-based online violence spikes after prominent media attacks
In order to analyze the relationship between attacks by prominent media figures and the quality of online discussion, we—NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics and the International Women’s Media Foundation—collected data on three case studies: Carlson’s targeting of Taylor Lorenz above, the journalist Glenn Greenwald’s targeting of Lorenz on Twitter, and Carlson’s targeting of Virginia Heffernan in a separate segment on Fox News.