Sidsel Kirstine Harder
Biographic Data
| ID | 4519533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sidsel Kirstine Harder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sidsel Kirstine |
| FAMILY NAME | Harder |
| SIGNATURE | HARDER S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7564-3890 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Suspicious Porn Consumer
Little is known about situations where pornography users draw the line between harmful and pleasurable online sexual images. In 2022, using unique empirical material consisting of 839 reports to child sexual abuse hotlines in Denmark and Belgium, we investigated what internet users report as harmful. We found that one-third of the material reported by these digital bystanders is child sexual abuse by legal standards. Through analysis of the remai…
WeGotYou
In 2022, Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter faced sexual assault allegations from three women. Carter, during his boyband career branded as the “innocent, young, baby” of the band, did not receive a lot of public backlash due to the cases, despite their resonance with typical #MeToo-narratives warranting an artist's cancellation. Besides the cancellation of the “Backstreet Boys Christmas Special” by ABC (and a few sponsorship deals), Carter's rep…
Re-faced and Pornified— A Visual, Narrative Analysis of Sexual Scripts in Police Cases of Image-based Abuse
This article analyses police cases to argue that image-based sexual abuse should not be understood as only happening to women who have shared risqué image of themselves. Anyone could have sexual images shared without consent, because all digital images can be pornified by the addition of sexually explicit iconography. Pornography is important to research visually because porn is a sexual script that can be used to alter any image from everyday an…
From dealing to influencing
In this paper we argue that legal and technological shifts in cannabis marketing has a gendered impact, which research so far has ignored. Despite high variations in national criminal laws, US-based social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter play a huge role in enforcing certain social and political standpoints on a global scale. One example being the recent legalization and commercialization of cannabis in various states in the…
Ashamed of shaming? Stories of managing, deflecting, and acknowledging shame after committing image-based sexual abuse
While a range of studies examine what drives people to nonconsensually distribute sexual images, there is little research on what they feel after having shamed someone online. Do image-sharers feel any shame themselves? Using narrative criminology, we analyze their statements during police investigations to examine if and how they manage shame. We find that many stories about committing image-based sexual abuse deny responsibility, neutralize act…
The emotional bystander – sexting and image-based sexual abuse among young adults
Digital sharing of sexually explicit imagery is a social and emotional phenomenon with at least three actors: A sender of an intimate image who is sexting with a consensual receiver – and a third party, who might non-consensually view the image later. In this paper, third parties are conceptualized as bystanders and it is analysed first, how non-consensual sharing makes the bystanders feel and secondly, how sexters feel about the potential bystan…
Tailored pornography
Drawing on 17 qualitative interviews with women aged 18-22, this paper explores how sexting practices are related to views on and uses of pornography. While pornography was found to be an important reference point for participants in their sexting, sexted images were actively tailored to differentiate themselves from porn in three ways. First, private images were to be less explicit and more realistic in terms of content. Second, unlike pornograp…
The emotional bystander – sexting and image-based sexual abuse among young adults
Digital sharing of sexually explicit imagery is a social and emotional phenomenon with at least three actors: A sender of an intimate image who is sexting with a consensual receiver – and a third party, who might non-consensually view the image later. In this paper, third parties are conceptualized as bystanders and it is analysed first, how non-consensual sharing makes the bystanders feel and secondly, how sexters feel about the potential bystan…
Tailored pornography
Drawing on 17 qualitative interviews with women aged 18-22, this paper explores how sexting practices are related to views on and uses of pornography. While pornography was found to be an important reference point for participants in their sexting, sexted images were actively tailored to differentiate themselves from porn in three ways. First, private images were to be less explicit and more realistic in terms of content. Second, unlike pornograp…
From dealing to influencing
In this paper we argue that legal and technological shifts in cannabis marketing has a gendered impact, which research so far has ignored. Despite high variations in national criminal laws, US-based social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter play a huge role in enforcing certain social and political standpoints on a global scale. One example being the recent legalization and commercialization of cannabis in various states in the…
The emotional bystander – sexting and image-based sexual abuse among young adults
Digital sharing of sexually explicit imagery is a social and emotional phenomenon with at least three actors: A sender of an intimate image who is sexting with a consensual receiver – and a third party, who might non-consensually view the image later. In this paper, third parties are conceptualized as bystanders and it is analysed first, how non-consensual sharing makes the bystanders feel and secondly, how sexters feel about the potential bystan…
Tailored pornography
Drawing on 17 qualitative interviews with women aged 18-22, this paper explores how sexting practices are related to views on and uses of pornography. While pornography was found to be an important reference point for participants in their sexting, sexted images were actively tailored to differentiate themselves from porn in three ways. First, private images were to be less explicit and more realistic in terms of content. Second, unlike pornograp…
Ashamed of shaming? Stories of managing, deflecting, and acknowledging shame after committing image-based sexual abuse
While a range of studies examine what drives people to nonconsensually distribute sexual images, there is little research on what they feel after having shamed someone online. Do image-sharers feel any shame themselves? Using narrative criminology, we analyze their statements during police investigations to examine if and how they manage shame. We find that many stories about committing image-based sexual abuse deny responsibility, neutralize act…
From dealing to influencing
In this paper we argue that legal and technological shifts in cannabis marketing has a gendered impact, which research so far has ignored. Despite high variations in national criminal laws, US-based social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter play a huge role in enforcing certain social and political standpoints on a global scale. One example being the recent legalization and commercialization of cannabis in various states in the…
Re-faced and Pornified— A Visual, Narrative Analysis of Sexual Scripts in Police Cases of Image-based Abuse
This article analyses police cases to argue that image-based sexual abuse should not be understood as only happening to women who have shared risqué image of themselves. Anyone could have sexual images shared without consent, because all digital images can be pornified by the addition of sexually explicit iconography. Pornography is important to research visually because porn is a sexual script that can be used to alter any image from everyday an…
The Suspicious Porn Consumer
Little is known about situations where pornography users draw the line between harmful and pleasurable online sexual images. In 2022, using unique empirical material consisting of 839 reports to child sexual abuse hotlines in Denmark and Belgium, we investigated what internet users report as harmful. We found that one-third of the material reported by these digital bystanders is child sexual abuse by legal standards. Through analysis of the remai…
WeGotYou
In 2022, Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter faced sexual assault allegations from three women. Carter, during his boyband career branded as the “innocent, young, baby” of the band, did not receive a lot of public backlash due to the cases, despite their resonance with typical #MeToo-narratives warranting an artist's cancellation. Besides the cancellation of the “Backstreet Boys Christmas Special” by ABC (and a few sponsorship deals), Carter's rep…
Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works) · Poison control (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sexual abuse (4 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Suicide prevention (3 works)