cover image: GUIDELINES FOR MONITORING ONLINE VIOLENCE AGAINST FEMALE JOURNALISTS

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GUIDELINES FOR MONITORING ONLINE VIOLENCE AGAINST FEMALE JOURNALISTS

6 Oct 2023

She sits on the board (elect) of the International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM), and she is a Senior Researcher affiliated with the Centre for Freedom of the Media and a Research Associate with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. [...] great punishment.”35 She combined numerous threats received in one complaint and went to the police, but ‘nothing happened.’ • Deploy network analysis and abuse monitoring and visualisation tools in order to understand connections between abusers, and to measure • María Morán (Spain) was targeted with rape threats and her 18-month- the speed and spread of attacks and pile-ons aimed at the journali. [...] It “sparked a wave of insults and verbal the abuser, the greater the risk of digital mobs piling on and physical mobs sexual harassment, both online and in the streets.”52 (See Indicator 8 for taking the violence offline. [...] Monitoring • Record the threat/s (describe the threat, attach a guidance for • In serious cases, where the threat has multiplied or where a high risk screen grab of the threat, include the URL where perpetrator is involved, conduct a network analysis to determine the relevant, include evidence of any image based abuse responders original source of the threat, and map its distribution if the capabi. [...] Her private address and photos of • Deploy network analysis and abuse monitoring and visualisation tools her home and five year old son were shared on Facebook in 2020 by a in order to understand connections between abusers and to measure fellow Ukrainian journalist, and she left the country.87 the speed and spread of attacks and pile-ons, recognising that a doxxing event can precipitate escalatio.
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