I’m going to begin the ethnographic portion of my project by posing questions to feminist tweeters and groups. I’ve decided that for the first round of questions I will tweet the same question to a variety of feminist organizations on twitter. Including Feministing, Feminist Majority, Everyday Sexism, and Mother Jones and see how their responses differ. The question is:
- How do you think we should educate teens and young adults about the various forms of sexual harassment online?
Many women still do not understand the boundaries that exist online. While there is no physicality in this type of sexual harassment, it does not mean it is not harassment. Additionally, since this is a grey area issue, there are forms of harassment that many victims may not realize that they are indeed victims. So how do we inform women and victims about this type of harassment? School text books only go so far, and technology moves so quickly how do we keep the youths informed on how to protect themselves?
Hopefully, one of these groups responds. If not, onto the next question!
-Maddie xx