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Online Misogyny: A Feminist Analysis

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Feminist criminologist has striven for equality of gender in the perspective of both victim and offender to avoid the domination of one gender (Renzetti, Goodstein and Miller, 2006). One such example can be discussed in an article by Koskela (1999) where, due to the vulnerability of violence by the opposite gender at public areas of high masculinity, females avoid such areas. That is one of the ranges of the offline platform that women have been facing; fear in public domain. Fear, however, can be observed on another medium such as online space (Barak, 2005). With such limitless accessibility of unsupervised channel, as compared to offline scenarios, it appears the online platforms can provide perpetrators more information of its victim thus, …show more content…

Thus, with the various journals from different field of research, it strengthens the discussions on the issue, making the analysis on online misogyny more credible as each various specialised field of study have their strengths and weaknesses that could support shortcomings from one another. For example, Dale (2016) and Duggan (2014) studies have contributed by adding method skills in the way they conduct their research to achieve the results. The various ways of yielding the result through algorithm and the use of surveys heightened the analysis in different perspectives of qualitative and quantitative …show more content…

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