IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/comaot/v31y2025i2d10.1007_s10588-024-09387-w.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Misogynistic targeting of women in power predicts broader online harassment patterns

Author

Listed:
  • Jennifer Golbeck

    (University of Maryland)

Abstract

Online harassment is a well-documented and studied problem on social media. Who does this harassing, how, and to what degree are important questions that can inform platform policies and automated controls as well as helping understand harassers more broadly. This study investigates users who were discovered because they created a post that harassed a women in power using misogynistic slurs. Do these tend to be isolated incidents, or do such users engage in higher rates of harassment more generally? Findings from Twitter, Parler, and Reddit suggest that this population uses offensive slurs at several times the rate of control groups. We break down these findings and discuss the implications for moderation, automation, user well-being, and platform success.

Suggested Citation

  • Jennifer Golbeck, 2025. "Misogynistic targeting of women in power predicts broader online harassment patterns," Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Springer, vol. 31(2), pages 109-119, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:comaot:v:31:y:2025:i:2:d:10.1007_s10588-024-09387-w
    DOI: 10.1007/s10588-024-09387-w
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10588-024-09387-w
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s10588-024-09387-w?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Tom Laer, 2014. "The Means to Justify the End: Combating Cyber Harassment in Social Media," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 123(1), pages 85-98, August.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Dena Yadin & Inbal Yahav & Lior Zalmanson & Nira Munichor, 2024. "Resolving the Ethical Tension Between Creating a Civil Environment and Facilitating Free Expression Online: Comment Reordering as an Alternative to Comment Moderation," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 192(2), pages 261-283, June.
    2. van Laer, Tom & Feiereisen, Stephanie & Visconti, Luca M., 2019. "Storytelling in the digital era: A meta-analysis of relevant moderators of the narrative transportation effect," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 135-146.
    3. Andrea Kampmann & Burkhard Pedell, 2022. "Using Storytelling to Promote Organizational Resilience: An Experimental Study of Different Forms of Risk Communication," Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, Springer, vol. 74(4), pages 695-725, December.
    4. Omar A. Alismaiel, 2023. "Digital Media Used in Education: The Influence on Cyberbullying Behaviors among Youth Students," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(2), pages 1-19, January.
    5. Steven Windisch & Susann Wiedlitzka & Ajima Olaghere & Elizabeth Jenaway, 2022. "Online interventions for reducing hate speech and cyberhate: A systematic review," Campbell Systematic Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 18(2), June.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:comaot:v:31:y:2025:i:2:d:10.1007_s10588-024-09387-w. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.