Structural failures of care: institutional disregard for researcher safety online

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Titel: Structural failures of care: institutional disregard for researcher safety online
Autoren: Mattheis, Ashley
Quelle: Mattheis, A 2025, ' Structural Failures of Care: Institutional Disregard for Researcher Safety Online ', European Journal of Politics and Gender, pp. 1-22 . https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088Y2025D000000083
Verlagsinformationen: Bristol University Press, 2025.
Publikationsjahr: 2025
Schlagwörter: extremist movements, anti-gender movements, Researcher Safety Online, Institutional Responsibility, Feminist Care Ethics, Online Harassment
Beschreibung: Online harassment has become an almost ubiquitous, though often institutionally unacknowledged, reality for academics globally, whether they study the online milieu or use digital media to publicise their work. Furthermore, online harassment of academics is often conducted strategically using coordinated, networked practices of online abuse. Despite the systematic nature of online harassment and multiple cases in which academics, researchers and universities have been targeted, few institutions have published policies, practices, procedures or training for addressing this reality. This apathetic lack of awareness at administrative and policy levels is expressed through modes of institutional disregard, including lacking resources, institutional silence and selective support for researchers’ safety needs. Taking a feminist ethics of care approach and using the author’s own experiences as an American academic studying gender and digital cultures of extremism, this article maps the ways that institutional disregard constitutes a structural failure of care in relation to researcher safety online.
Publikationsart: Article
ISSN: 2515-1096
2515-1088
DOI: 10.1332/25151088y2025d000000083
Rights: CC BY
Dokumentencode: edsair.doi.dedup.....bbc87a8deca2c108982eba415082609f
Datenbank: OpenAIRE
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Abstract:Online harassment has become an almost ubiquitous, though often institutionally unacknowledged, reality for academics globally, whether they study the online milieu or use digital media to publicise their work. Furthermore, online harassment of academics is often conducted strategically using coordinated, networked practices of online abuse. Despite the systematic nature of online harassment and multiple cases in which academics, researchers and universities have been targeted, few institutions have published policies, practices, procedures or training for addressing this reality. This apathetic lack of awareness at administrative and policy levels is expressed through modes of institutional disregard, including lacking resources, institutional silence and selective support for researchers’ safety needs. Taking a feminist ethics of care approach and using the author’s own experiences as an American academic studying gender and digital cultures of extremism, this article maps the ways that institutional disregard constitutes a structural failure of care in relation to researcher safety online.
ISSN:25151096
25151088
DOI:10.1332/25151088y2025d000000083