Online harassment degrades and can violently suppress our freedom of expression. When we equate online abuse with bullying, we miss its complex and dynamic underpinnings.
Soraya Chemaly (@schemaly) is the director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project. In this interview Soraya illustrates how online abuse, particularly of girls and women, mirrors age-old antisocial behavior that occurs offline. She presents this as a social problem that we can’t expect victims to solve individually.
Learn in this episode what role you can play to influence your own online communities to promote equality and democracy, addressing challenges to these values in real time.
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