What is it about?
Has social media made any difference to the way people disclose experiences of sexual violence? We argue it has. In this paper, we show that although survivors have been disclosing experiences of sexual violence for decades, digital technologies enable survivors to share the way it is felt and experienced.
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Why is it important?
Our findings showcase the ways digital platforms like Tumblr and Twitter are creating new means through which sexual violence is known and felt. These new narratives we argue, have potential to act as forms of personal healing while also challenging deeply held rape myths which stigmatise victims, prevent many from coming forward, or from securing various forms of justice.
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This article highlights the importance of studying the various and creative forms of disclosure made possible via digital technologies, and brings together scholarship from sociology, media and cultural studies and criminology.
Kaitlynn Mendes
University of Leicester
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This page is a summary of: Digitized narratives of sexual violence: Making sexual violence felt and known through digital disclosures, New Media & Society, December 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1461444818820069.
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