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Memphis works to envision a better public health response to sexual assault
Published in Rachel E. Lovell, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape, 2023
Other new technologies that put information and communication at our fingertips hold promise for future innovation in the realm of sexual violence prevention and safety. A QR code on bar napkins or tabletops could in the future instantly call bar staff or police if swiped by a threatened customer, for example (Guarino, 2021). Social media content could update hot spots or share alerts about violent incidents. The ever-evolving landscape of online platforms such as TikTok and Instagram has changed the meaning of bystander, as all social media users may become bystanders if witnessing cyber abuse. While social media has led to new types of abuse—cyber-bullying, stalking, online harassment, and revenge porn—social media also could be useful in interrupting or calling out abusive behaviors (Fairbairn, 2020). Thus, creators of future sexual violence prevention initiatives must be alert to new developments and ready to adapt to ever-changing social norms and technology. This is the direction that Memphis is heading.
Cyberspace at Risk
Published in Kenneth Okereafor, Cybersecurity in the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021
On an individual level, the impacts of a cyberattack could be even more devastating to the online safety of the victim, especially where private data has been exposed or confidential information compromised by a malicious hacker. The impacts can transcend from immediate interruption of online transactions to a more severe cyber espionage, cyber bullying, and online harassment on account of sensitive information that may have leaked into the wrong hands.
Adolescence and young adult mental health
Published in Mary Steen, Michael Thomas, Mental Health Across the Lifespan, 2015
Bullying can take on many forms but it is usually a behaviour that is defined by the use of threat, intimidation, coercion or force for the purposes of aggressively dominating or terrorising another individual. The behaviour is often repeated and may take on forms involving physical violence, name-calling, teasing, the spreading of rumours and/or cyber-bullying. Cyber-bullying involves the use of the technology to repeatedly harass and bully others. Online harassment has been associated with increased rates of depressive symptoms (Ybarra and Mitchell, 2004). In 2010, 16 per cent of UK children reported being bullied, with 8 per cent saying they were bullied via the Internet. This had reversed in 2013, showing cyber-bullying was now more common than face-to-face bullying (12 per cent vs. 9 per cent ) (Livingstone et al., 2014).
‘Wasn’t This Already Considered Sexual Harassment?’: Exploring the Confusion Around the Law Mandating Consent to Receive a Nude Sext Message
Published in American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2022
Amelia E. Evans, Joseph M. Currin, Sheila Garos, Alyssa Stokes, Kassidy Cox, Cody L. Meyer
A high prevalence of mobile phones, social media platforms, and dating applications on mobile devices (Perrin, 2015; Villanti et al., 2017) increased our ability to sext with others. One unfortunate side effect of this access is an increase of sexual harassment, in the form of unwanted sexting or sexual communication (Barak, 2005; Ma et al., 2017; Nova et al., 2019). A nationally representative survey found that roughly four-in-ten (41%) Americans have been personally subjected to online harassing behaviors, while 18% of individuals have been subjected to particularly severe forms of online harassment, including behaviors such as physical threats, sustained periods of harassment, sexual harassment, and stalking (Duggan, 2017). In turn, digital communication is a means to sexually harass others; and it is available immediately at our fingertips. Technology is a median for non-consensual explicit sexual images.
Victims of Cyberbullying: An Examination of Social Cognitive Processes Associated with Cyberbullying Victimization
Published in Journal of School Violence, 2021
Despite the variability in defining and measuring cyberbullying, the research has consistently reported its negative effects on adolescents’ mental health. Online harassment has been associated with increased depression and poor psychological wellbeing (Ybarra, 2004). Further research has found cyberbullying victimization to be strongly associated with internalizing problems including higher levels of depression (Price & Dalgleish, 2010; Wigderson & Lynch, 2013), stress (Finkelhor et al., 2000; Ybarra et al., 2006), annoyance and extreme sadness (Price & Dalgleish, 2010), increased loneliness (Jackson & Cohen, 2012), higher levels of social anxiety (Wigderson & Lynch, 2013), and suicidal ideation (Bonanno & Hymel, 2013; Hinduja & Patchin, 2010). Examining potential mediating variables will provide insight into the mechanisms associated with the relationship between victimization and wellbeing, and will give researchers direction regarding areas for intervention.
Online and offline sexual harassment associations of anxiety and depression in an adolescent sample
Published in Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 2021
Gender significantly correlated with anxiety and depressive symptoms. Analyses of girls and boys separately showed that online harassment was significant for girls but not for boys, while at the same time no significant difference in the prevalence of online harassment was found. Previous studies have found that girls experience multiple types of harassment more frequently than boys, both online [3,12], and offline [26,27]. This was not captured in our study since the number of incidents of sexual harassment were not recorded, and therefore, all participants were weighted equally, irrespectively of the amount of harassment they had experienced. The association with mental health from offline sexual harassment was almost the same for both girls and boys. So, although offline harassment is more commonly targeted towards girls, the connection to mental health, when it occurs, is similar for both girls and boys.