Verity Trott
Biographic Data
| ID | 218099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Verity Trott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Verity |
| FAMILY NAME | Trott |
| SIGNATURE | TROTT V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0288-4044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Navigating Discrimination to Developing Professional Digital Intimacy: How Indonesian LGBTQ+ Users Harness the Affordances of Healthcare Apps
This article investigates how lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ+) Indonesian users engage with healthcare apps, addressing the challenges they face in accessing inclusive and affirming digital health services within a sociopolitical environment that often marginalizes LGBTQ+ identities. Drawing on 21 in-depth interviews with LGBTQ+ Indonesian users and the media go-along method to trace their interactions with healthcare apps, this …
This Is/Is Not a Feminist Film: The Cultural and Platform Logics of Feminist Film Lists on Letterboxd
What sorts of films, filmmakers and film-watching is recognised as feminist by the users of the cinephile platform Letterboxd? What do practices of curating and logging feminist films reveal about how feminism is imagined? And how are these imaginaries shaped by Letterboxd’s platform logics and affordances? Drawing on a dataset of public lists labelled “feminist” and/or “women director,” we explore how Letterboxd users define feminist films via p…
Neoliberal capitalism and the political aesthetics of tradwife imagery
Neoliberal capitalism and the political aesthetics of tradwife imagery
Adolescence’, manufactured outrage and instructed victimhood: How the discourse on boys’ alienation is fuelled by anti-feminist agendas
This article examines the cultural and political discourse surrounding the Netflix series Adolescence (2025), analysing how boys’ alienation is positioned within reactionary, anti-feminist agendas. We argue that while the series has sparked significant debate about masculinity, gender violence, and youth identities, its reception reveals how grievance politics are cultivated. Through a consideration of what we describe as manufactured outrage and…
Public service sentiment in Australian digital communities on Reddit and Whirlpool during the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper explores the role of digitally networked local communities on the platforms Reddit and Whirlpool in helping citizens navigate and understand Australian public services during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study incorporates an analysis of six location-based Australian subreddits and nine discussion forums on the platform Whirlpool. An inductive content analysis on a dataset of 14,000 posts and comments collected across Fe…
Streaming diversity: Studying screen diversity in the streaming era
The unprecedented growth of video-on-demand (VOD) streaming platforms has brought both new optimism and new complications to concerns around screen ‘diversity’. To what extent have major global and smaller regional VOD platforms invested in screen diversity, at the level of genres, languages, country-of-origin, social representation or creative labour? Just how ‘diverse’ are the catalogues of VOD services? How is this content represented to audie…
You can't trust the mainstream media: Exploring shifts in racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, antisemitic and Islamophobic sentiment within Australian far-right alternative news media
Alternative news media, which opposes mainstream news media, has been utilised by the far right to proliferate their ideology. This study explores how the scale of discussion, and negative framing, of different groups that are commonly targeted by the far right changes over time. Taking 7089 articles published by a prominent Australian far-right alternative news media outlet over a 7.5-year period, and a corpus of 311 keywords, a keyword frequenc…
Automated culture: Introduction
Automation has a long history in cultural production, but the contemporary moment presents a range of new possibilities and demands for the deployment of automated and autonomous systems in the shaping of our cultural and social worlds. The cultural implications of the deployment of automated systems for producing, curating, and distributing a growing range of cultural texts and artifacts extend beyond the realm of content to encompass their pace…
Operationalising ‘toxicity’ in the manosphere: Automation, platform governance and community health
Social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. In an effort to better cope with content moderation discussion has turned to the role that automated machine-learning (ML) tools might play. The development of automated systems by social media platforms is a notoriously opaque process and public values that pertain to the common good are at stake within these often-obscured processes. One site in which social values are being nego…
The politics of data visualisation and policy making
Data visualisation has become ubiquitous in everyday life, from seeing images in news media to tracking individual health indicators. While the effects of data visualisation on society and people have been explored within a range of literature, there has been far less attention paid to the interconnectedness of data visualisation and policy making. In this special issue, we explore how data visualisation matters for policy priorities, processes a…
“It ain’t a compliment”: Feminist data visualisation and digital street harassment advocacy
In an era of datafication, data visualisation is playing an increasing role in civic meaning-making processes. However, the conventions of data visualisation have been criticised for their reductiveness and rhetoric of neutrality and there have been recent efforts to develop feminist principles for designing data visualisations that are compatible with feminist epistemologies. In this article, we aim to examine how data visualisation is used in f…
The virtual clubhouse: Australian women’s cycling and digital counterpublics
In the past decade, there have been several efforts in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to increase the opportunities and improve the experiences of women cyclists in recreational and racing contexts. However, cycling in Victoria and Australia more broadly continues to be a male dominated sport. This study incorporates a digital ethnography of two Melbourne-based women’s cycling Facebook groups including 11 interviews with stakeholders over the per…
Bughead Is Endgame”: Civic Meaning-Making in Riverdale Anti-Fandom and Shipping Practices on Tumblr
In this paper, we seek to understand how shipping and anti-fan practices intersect to create meaningful audience engagement and civic discourse about contemporary social and political issues in the “politics of viewing” CW’s adaptation of Riverdale. By examining tagged posts from January 3, 2017 to June 26, 2019, we elicit how fan-rhetoric operates in a digitally networked environment and interrogate the intra-fan rivalries between shippers, anti…
Shedding light on ‘dark’ ads
Targeted advertising lies at the heart of digital economic models and has been scrutinized with respect to the potential pathologies of discriminatory job and housing advertising along with concerns about harmful forms of manipulation and the invasive character of online data harvesting. This article takes as its focus the non-transparent forms of cultural association reproduced by targeted advertising. We call into question the ready distinction…
Tuning Out Hate Speech on Reddit: Automating Moderation and Detecting Toxicity in the Manosphere
Over the past two years social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. At the same time, they have come under fire for failing to mitigate the risks of perceived ‘toxic’ content or behaviour on their platforms. In effort to better cope with content moderation, to combat hate speech, ‘dangerous organisations’ and other bad actors present on platforms, discussion has turned to the role that automated machine-learning (ML) tools m…
‘The pussy ain’t worth it, bro’: Assessing the discourse and structure of MGTOW
In the era of networked affordances, misogynistic men’s groups have been rapidly growing and have contributed to several physical fatal attacks along with the propagation of gendered online harassment and e-bile. It is thus important to study the organisational structures and communication dynamics of these groups to provide insight into why they have been successful in recruiting members and how they further spread and normalise misogynistic bel…
Networked feminism: Counterpublics and the intersectional issues of #MeToo
In October 2017, millions of people shared public testimonials of sexual abuse and harassment in an expression of global vulnerability using the hashtag #MeToo. While #MeToo was triggered by Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano, the phrase can be traced back a decade earlier to when African-American activist Tarana Burke said “me too” in a private exchange of solidarity with young black girls who were survivors of sexual assault. This study examines o…
Gillette: The best a beta can get’: Networking hegemonic masculinity in the digital sphere
On 13 January 2019, Gillette launched a short film on YouTube entitled We Believe as part of a campaign addressing negative behaviour among men that perpetuates toxic masculinity. However, the video was subject to a large backlash with over 1 million downvotes on YouTube and thousands of critical comments accusing Gillette of playing into the ‘feminist agenda’. This article examines the configuration of the backlash, specifically examining the ne…
Sluts and soyboys: MGTOW and the production of misogynistic online harassment
Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) are a separatist Manosphere group (digital manifestation of the Men’s Liberation Movement) who focus on individualistic, self-empowering actions as opposed to traditional collective actions typical of Men’s Rights Activists and Incels. This study investigates how the ideology and rhetoric of MGTOW propagates and normalises misogynistic beliefs through online harassment, using a multi-phased content and thematic ana…
Connected feminists: Foregrounding the Interpersonal in Connective Action
New social movement theories have been developed to address the organisational structures of activism in the age of digital platforms, but have tended to focus on structural questions rather than interpersonal dynamics. This paper engages with Bennett and Segerberg's theory of connective action but uses a feminist lens to foreground the interpersonal dynamics between digitally equipped activists to develop a uniquely feminist account of connectiv…
Sluts and soyboys: MGTOW and the production of misogynistic online harassment
Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) are a separatist Manosphere group (digital manifestation of the Men’s Liberation Movement) who focus on individualistic, self-empowering actions as opposed to traditional collective actions typical of Men’s Rights Activists and Incels. This study investigates how the ideology and rhetoric of MGTOW propagates and normalises misogynistic beliefs through online harassment, using a multi-phased content and thematic ana…
Networked feminism: Counterpublics and the intersectional issues of #MeToo
In October 2017, millions of people shared public testimonials of sexual abuse and harassment in an expression of global vulnerability using the hashtag #MeToo. While #MeToo was triggered by Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano, the phrase can be traced back a decade earlier to when African-American activist Tarana Burke said “me too” in a private exchange of solidarity with young black girls who were survivors of sexual assault. This study examines o…
Gillette: The best a beta can get’: Networking hegemonic masculinity in the digital sphere
On 13 January 2019, Gillette launched a short film on YouTube entitled We Believe as part of a campaign addressing negative behaviour among men that perpetuates toxic masculinity. However, the video was subject to a large backlash with over 1 million downvotes on YouTube and thousands of critical comments accusing Gillette of playing into the ‘feminist agenda’. This article examines the configuration of the backlash, specifically examining the ne…
Connected feminists: Foregrounding the Interpersonal in Connective Action
New social movement theories have been developed to address the organisational structures of activism in the age of digital platforms, but have tended to focus on structural questions rather than interpersonal dynamics. This paper engages with Bennett and Segerberg's theory of connective action but uses a feminist lens to foreground the interpersonal dynamics between digitally equipped activists to develop a uniquely feminist account of connectiv…
Bughead Is Endgame”: Civic Meaning-Making in Riverdale Anti-Fandom and Shipping Practices on Tumblr
In this paper, we seek to understand how shipping and anti-fan practices intersect to create meaningful audience engagement and civic discourse about contemporary social and political issues in the “politics of viewing” CW’s adaptation of Riverdale. By examining tagged posts from January 3, 2017 to June 26, 2019, we elicit how fan-rhetoric operates in a digitally networked environment and interrogate the intra-fan rivalries between shippers, anti…
Shedding light on ‘dark’ ads
Targeted advertising lies at the heart of digital economic models and has been scrutinized with respect to the potential pathologies of discriminatory job and housing advertising along with concerns about harmful forms of manipulation and the invasive character of online data harvesting. This article takes as its focus the non-transparent forms of cultural association reproduced by targeted advertising. We call into question the ready distinction…
You can't trust the mainstream media: Exploring shifts in racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, antisemitic and Islamophobic sentiment within Australian far-right alternative news media
Alternative news media, which opposes mainstream news media, has been utilised by the far right to proliferate their ideology. This study explores how the scale of discussion, and negative framing, of different groups that are commonly targeted by the far right changes over time. Taking 7089 articles published by a prominent Australian far-right alternative news media outlet over a 7.5-year period, and a corpus of 311 keywords, a keyword frequenc…
The virtual clubhouse: Australian women’s cycling and digital counterpublics
In the past decade, there have been several efforts in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to increase the opportunities and improve the experiences of women cyclists in recreational and racing contexts. However, cycling in Victoria and Australia more broadly continues to be a male dominated sport. This study incorporates a digital ethnography of two Melbourne-based women’s cycling Facebook groups including 11 interviews with stakeholders over the per…
Connected feminists: Foregrounding the Interpersonal in Connective Action
New social movement theories have been developed to address the organisational structures of activism in the age of digital platforms, but have tended to focus on structural questions rather than interpersonal dynamics. This paper engages with Bennett and Segerberg's theory of connective action but uses a feminist lens to foreground the interpersonal dynamics between digitally equipped activists to develop a uniquely feminist account of connectiv…
Sluts and soyboys: MGTOW and the production of misogynistic online harassment
Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) are a separatist Manosphere group (digital manifestation of the Men’s Liberation Movement) who focus on individualistic, self-empowering actions as opposed to traditional collective actions typical of Men’s Rights Activists and Incels. This study investigates how the ideology and rhetoric of MGTOW propagates and normalises misogynistic beliefs through online harassment, using a multi-phased content and thematic ana…
Tuning Out Hate Speech on Reddit: Automating Moderation and Detecting Toxicity in the Manosphere
Over the past two years social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. At the same time, they have come under fire for failing to mitigate the risks of perceived ‘toxic’ content or behaviour on their platforms. In effort to better cope with content moderation, to combat hate speech, ‘dangerous organisations’ and other bad actors present on platforms, discussion has turned to the role that automated machine-learning (ML) tools m…
‘The pussy ain’t worth it, bro’: Assessing the discourse and structure of MGTOW
In the era of networked affordances, misogynistic men’s groups have been rapidly growing and have contributed to several physical fatal attacks along with the propagation of gendered online harassment and e-bile. It is thus important to study the organisational structures and communication dynamics of these groups to provide insight into why they have been successful in recruiting members and how they further spread and normalise misogynistic bel…
Networked feminism: Counterpublics and the intersectional issues of #MeToo
In October 2017, millions of people shared public testimonials of sexual abuse and harassment in an expression of global vulnerability using the hashtag #MeToo. While #MeToo was triggered by Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano, the phrase can be traced back a decade earlier to when African-American activist Tarana Burke said “me too” in a private exchange of solidarity with young black girls who were survivors of sexual assault. This study examines o…
Gillette: The best a beta can get’: Networking hegemonic masculinity in the digital sphere
On 13 January 2019, Gillette launched a short film on YouTube entitled We Believe as part of a campaign addressing negative behaviour among men that perpetuates toxic masculinity. However, the video was subject to a large backlash with over 1 million downvotes on YouTube and thousands of critical comments accusing Gillette of playing into the ‘feminist agenda’. This article examines the configuration of the backlash, specifically examining the ne…
Bughead Is Endgame”: Civic Meaning-Making in Riverdale Anti-Fandom and Shipping Practices on Tumblr
In this paper, we seek to understand how shipping and anti-fan practices intersect to create meaningful audience engagement and civic discourse about contemporary social and political issues in the “politics of viewing” CW’s adaptation of Riverdale. By examining tagged posts from January 3, 2017 to June 26, 2019, we elicit how fan-rhetoric operates in a digitally networked environment and interrogate the intra-fan rivalries between shippers, anti…
Shedding light on ‘dark’ ads
Targeted advertising lies at the heart of digital economic models and has been scrutinized with respect to the potential pathologies of discriminatory job and housing advertising along with concerns about harmful forms of manipulation and the invasive character of online data harvesting. This article takes as its focus the non-transparent forms of cultural association reproduced by targeted advertising. We call into question the ready distinction…
Operationalising ‘toxicity’ in the manosphere: Automation, platform governance and community health
Social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. In an effort to better cope with content moderation discussion has turned to the role that automated machine-learning (ML) tools might play. The development of automated systems by social media platforms is a notoriously opaque process and public values that pertain to the common good are at stake within these often-obscured processes. One site in which social values are being nego…
The politics of data visualisation and policy making
Data visualisation has become ubiquitous in everyday life, from seeing images in news media to tracking individual health indicators. While the effects of data visualisation on society and people have been explored within a range of literature, there has been far less attention paid to the interconnectedness of data visualisation and policy making. In this special issue, we explore how data visualisation matters for policy priorities, processes a…
“It ain’t a compliment”: Feminist data visualisation and digital street harassment advocacy
In an era of datafication, data visualisation is playing an increasing role in civic meaning-making processes. However, the conventions of data visualisation have been criticised for their reductiveness and rhetoric of neutrality and there have been recent efforts to develop feminist principles for designing data visualisations that are compatible with feminist epistemologies. In this article, we aim to examine how data visualisation is used in f…
The virtual clubhouse: Australian women’s cycling and digital counterpublics
In the past decade, there have been several efforts in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to increase the opportunities and improve the experiences of women cyclists in recreational and racing contexts. However, cycling in Victoria and Australia more broadly continues to be a male dominated sport. This study incorporates a digital ethnography of two Melbourne-based women’s cycling Facebook groups including 11 interviews with stakeholders over the per…
Automated culture: Introduction
Automation has a long history in cultural production, but the contemporary moment presents a range of new possibilities and demands for the deployment of automated and autonomous systems in the shaping of our cultural and social worlds. The cultural implications of the deployment of automated systems for producing, curating, and distributing a growing range of cultural texts and artifacts extend beyond the realm of content to encompass their pace…
Streaming diversity: Studying screen diversity in the streaming era
The unprecedented growth of video-on-demand (VOD) streaming platforms has brought both new optimism and new complications to concerns around screen ‘diversity’. To what extent have major global and smaller regional VOD platforms invested in screen diversity, at the level of genres, languages, country-of-origin, social representation or creative labour? Just how ‘diverse’ are the catalogues of VOD services? How is this content represented to audie…
You can't trust the mainstream media: Exploring shifts in racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, antisemitic and Islamophobic sentiment within Australian far-right alternative news media
Alternative news media, which opposes mainstream news media, has been utilised by the far right to proliferate their ideology. This study explores how the scale of discussion, and negative framing, of different groups that are commonly targeted by the far right changes over time. Taking 7089 articles published by a prominent Australian far-right alternative news media outlet over a 7.5-year period, and a corpus of 311 keywords, a keyword frequenc…
Neoliberal capitalism and the political aesthetics of tradwife imagery
Neoliberal capitalism and the political aesthetics of tradwife imagery
Adolescence’, manufactured outrage and instructed victimhood: How the discourse on boys’ alienation is fuelled by anti-feminist agendas
This article examines the cultural and political discourse surrounding the Netflix series Adolescence (2025), analysing how boys’ alienation is positioned within reactionary, anti-feminist agendas. We argue that while the series has sparked significant debate about masculinity, gender violence, and youth identities, its reception reveals how grievance politics are cultivated. Through a consideration of what we describe as manufactured outrage and…
Public service sentiment in Australian digital communities on Reddit and Whirlpool during the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper explores the role of digitally networked local communities on the platforms Reddit and Whirlpool in helping citizens navigate and understand Australian public services during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study incorporates an analysis of six location-based Australian subreddits and nine discussion forums on the platform Whirlpool. An inductive content analysis on a dataset of 14,000 posts and comments collected across Fe…
From Navigating Discrimination to Developing Professional Digital Intimacy: How Indonesian LGBTQ+ Users Harness the Affordances of Healthcare Apps
This article investigates how lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ+) Indonesian users engage with healthcare apps, addressing the challenges they face in accessing inclusive and affirming digital health services within a sociopolitical environment that often marginalizes LGBTQ+ identities. Drawing on 21 in-depth interviews with LGBTQ+ Indonesian users and the media go-along method to trace their interactions with healthcare apps, this …
This Is/Is Not a Feminist Film: The Cultural and Platform Logics of Feminist Film Lists on Letterboxd
What sorts of films, filmmakers and film-watching is recognised as feminist by the users of the cinephile platform Letterboxd? What do practices of curating and logging feminist films reveal about how feminism is imagined? And how are these imaginaries shaped by Letterboxd’s platform logics and affordances? Drawing on a dataset of public lists labelled “feminist” and/or “women director,” we explore how Letterboxd users define feminist films via p…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Social Media and Politics (9 works) · Business (6 works) · Public relations (6 works)