Apprehending digital hostility and online abuse

Feminist care ethics in/and digital ecologies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4481409
AutoresR Cover (0000-0002-8815-2126, RMIT University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen183
Número1
Páginas33-48
Fecha de publicación2024-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThesis Eleven (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/07255136241284658
OpenAlexW4403099685
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas26

The experience of digital platforms in the 2020s is often marked by a lack of ethical care: increasing rates of online abuse, trolling and adversarial speech in many cases lead to harmful outcomes including suicidality. Underlying the ineffectiveness of extant regulation and platform policy has been a significant focus on users as individuals rather than as participants in a digital ecology with ethical responsibilities for the care of the other. Addressing these harms calls for cultural change in how we perceive interactive communication, digital use, bodies and subjectivity. This paper asks what a feminist approach might contribute to the framing of improved online communication and the detoxification of the digital ecology. Drawing on recent work on non-violence by Judith Butler and approaches to ecologies and infrastructure by Lauren Berlant, the paper proposes an ethics of mutual care in communication, recognising communication and interactivity and online sociality as an a priori factor of liveable human lives

Criminology · Environmental ethics · Ethics of care · Feminism · Hostility · Internet privacy · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology