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Alessia Tranchese

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ID4502565
NAMEAlessia Tranchese
GIVEN NAMESAlessia
FAMILY NAMETranchese
SIGNATURETRANCHESE A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Portsmouth
ORCID0000-0002-3589-330X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS16
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2
  • What counts as harm? Feminist experiments with AI-driven visual content moderation to detect misogynistic violence in mainstream pornography

    Open Access•Alessia Tranchese•ARTICLE•Big Data & Society•2026

    This paper offers a feminist critique of algorithmic systems of harm-detection by evaluating the visual recognition capabilities of Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) tools and their effectiveness in detecting misogynistic violence within online pornography. It asks what counts as harm in commercial artificial intelligence (AI) moderation systems and what happens when these are used to identify misogynistic violence in pornography. While previ…

  • Introduction – A Feminist Conversation on Consent and Sexual Violence

    Open Access•Maria João Faustino, Alessia Tranchese•ARTICLE•ex aequo - Revista da Associação…•2025

  • Like shagging a dead fish”

    Open Access•Alessia Tranchese•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2024•References: 13

  • From Fritzl to #metoo

    Open Access•Alessia Tranchese•BOOK•From Fritzl to #metoo•2023

  • From Fritzl To #metoo

    Alessia Tranchese•BOOK•From Fritzl To #metoo•2022

  • I Don’t Hate All Women, Just Those Stuck-Up Bitches”

    Open Access•Alessia Tranchese, Lisa Sugiura•ARTICLE•Violence Against Women•2021•Cited by: 14•References: 8

    This article seeks to establish the connection-via shared discourse-between Incels and mainstream pornography. With an interdisciplinary approach which involves a Corpus Linguistics analysis of Reddit forum data, research into digital behaviors, and a feminist critique, this article focuses on the commonalities between the language of pornography and that of Incels. In doing so, it demonstrates how both pornography and Incels are different manife…

  • Covering rape

    Alessia Tranchese•ARTICLE•Gender and Language•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    The focus of this paper is a corpus study of the representation of rape in the mainstream quality press in the UK and a discussion of the broader social implications of such representation. This paper uses corpus analysis tools to study the discourse that surrounds the terms ‘rape’ and ‘raped’ and their collocates in a corpus of four British quality newspapers and compares the findings of the corpus analysis with corpus-external data (e.g. statis…

  • I Don’t Hate All Women, Just Those Stuck-Up Bitches”

    Open Access•Alessia Tranchese, Lisa Sugiura•ARTICLE•Violence Against Women•2021•Cited by: 14•References: 8

    This article seeks to establish the connection-via shared discourse-between Incels and mainstream pornography. With an interdisciplinary approach which involves a Corpus Linguistics analysis of Reddit forum data, research into digital behaviors, and a feminist critique, this article focuses on the commonalities between the language of pornography and that of Incels. In doing so, it demonstrates how both pornography and Incels are different manife…

  • Covering rape

    Alessia Tranchese•ARTICLE•Gender and Language•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    The focus of this paper is a corpus study of the representation of rape in the mainstream quality press in the UK and a discussion of the broader social implications of such representation. This paper uses corpus analysis tools to study the discourse that surrounds the terms ‘rape’ and ‘raped’ and their collocates in a corpus of four British quality newspapers and compares the findings of the corpus analysis with corpus-external data (e.g. statis…

  • Covering rape

    Alessia Tranchese•ARTICLE•Gender and Language•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    The focus of this paper is a corpus study of the representation of rape in the mainstream quality press in the UK and a discussion of the broader social implications of such representation. This paper uses corpus analysis tools to study the discourse that surrounds the terms ‘rape’ and ‘raped’ and their collocates in a corpus of four British quality newspapers and compares the findings of the corpus analysis with corpus-external data (e.g. statis…

  • I Don’t Hate All Women, Just Those Stuck-Up Bitches”

    Open Access•Alessia Tranchese, Lisa Sugiura•ARTICLE•Violence Against Women•2021•Cited by: 14•References: 8

    This article seeks to establish the connection-via shared discourse-between Incels and mainstream pornography. With an interdisciplinary approach which involves a Corpus Linguistics analysis of Reddit forum data, research into digital behaviors, and a feminist critique, this article focuses on the commonalities between the language of pornography and that of Incels. In doing so, it demonstrates how both pornography and Incels are different manife…

  • From Fritzl To #metoo

    Alessia Tranchese•BOOK•From Fritzl To #metoo•2022

  • From Fritzl to #metoo

    Open Access•Alessia Tranchese•BOOK•From Fritzl to #metoo•2023

  • Like shagging a dead fish”

    Open Access•Alessia Tranchese•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2024•References: 13

  • Introduction – A Feminist Conversation on Consent and Sexual Violence

    Open Access•Maria João Faustino, Alessia Tranchese•ARTICLE•ex aequo - Revista da Associação…•2025

  • What counts as harm? Feminist experiments with AI-driven visual content moderation to detect misogynistic violence in mainstream pornography

    Open Access•Alessia Tranchese•ARTICLE•Big Data & Society•2026

    This paper offers a feminist critique of algorithmic systems of harm-detection by evaluating the visual recognition capabilities of Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) tools and their effectiveness in detecting misogynistic violence within online pornography. It asks what counts as harm in commercial artificial intelligence (AI) moderation systems and what happens when these are used to identify misogynistic violence in pornography. While previ…

Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Mainstream (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Feminism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)

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