Dear Alice and everyone Thank you very much for sharing this great resource!! I immediately integrated a link to it into my own project, which I want to share herel as it so nicely fits into this threat. As part of my dissertation on women's voices online, for which I interviewed 109 women bloggers and online authors in the US, UK, Germany and Switzerland, I developed "Guidelines for Blogging" for women with a focus on safety. At the same time, the guidelines encourage women to blog and write online, to not be "scared" because we hear and read so much at the moment about online harassment especially regarding women (at least in the US, UK and Germany). So please share this link to my website "Guidelines for Blogging." It is also a good teaching resource, offering links to more resources as well. Here is the link and URL (it is available in English and German): http://safeblogging.wordpress.com/about/ Thank you for your support! I am also looking for further feedback, links and suggestions to improve the guidelines. So please send your suggestions along. Best, Stine Stine Eckert, Ph.D. Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland 2100N Knight Hall www.stineeckert.com @stineeckert ________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Alice E. Marwick [amarwick@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 3:21 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] New Report on Online Harassment, Defamation, and Hateful Speech I am delighted to report that my latest report, coauthored with Ross Miller and the wonderful people from Fordham's Center on Law and Information Policy, has been released. Online Harassment, Defamation, and Hateful Speech: A Legal Primer This interdisciplinary project focused on online speech directed at women and seeks to provide a primer on (i) what legal remedies, if any, are available for victims of sexist, misogynist, or harassing online speech, and (ii) if such legal remedies and procedures exist, whether practical hurdles stand in the way of victims’ abilities to stop harassing or defamatory behavior and to obtain legal relief. The study concluded that while online harassment and hateful speech is a significant problem, there are few legal remedies for victims. This is partly due to issues of jurisdiction and anonymity, partly due to the protection of internet speech under the First Amendment, and partly due to the lack of expertise and resources on online speech at various levels of law enforcement. Given this landscape, the problem of online harassment and hateful speech is unlikely to be solved solely by victims using existing laws; law should be utilized in combination with other practical solutions. The objective of the project is to provide a resource that may be used by the general public, and in particular, researchers, legal practitioners, Internet community moderators, and victims of harassment and hateful speech online. Download for free at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2447904 Please let me know if you have questions or comments! Alice -- Alice E. Marwick, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University amarwick@fordham.edu <https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=amarwick@fordham.edu> http://www.tiara.org _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/