Apprehending digital hostility and online abuse

Feminist care ethics in/and digital ecologies

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4481409
AutoresR Cover (0000-0002-8815-2126, RMIT University, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume183
Fascículo1
Páginas33-48
Data de publicação2024-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThesis Eleven (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/07255136241284658
OpenAlexW4403099685
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências 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