This month, join us in-person at ABC South Bank or online to hear ADM+S researcher, Lucinda Nelson talk about the challenges of everyday misogyny in online discussions about gender-based violence.
Lucinda will explore the challenges of understanding and responding to everyday misogyny in online discussions about gender-based violence. How might we begin to better address the subtler, ‘civil’ discourses that normalise violence against women, alongside the more extreme manifestations of online misogyny?
Lucinda is a research student at the ADM+S Centre at QUT. Lucinda’s research explores the manifestation and spread of misogyny on social media platforms. Conceptualising misogyny as a continuum, Lucinda seeks to draw particular attention to the more ‘covert’ types of misogyny that are not always immediately apparent, but underpin and reinforce a culture of violence against women. Lucinda’s project involves a comparative analysis of responses to a gender-based violence controversy on three different social media platforms. Through this work, Lucinda aims to identify practical opportunities for legal, technical, or other intervention to combat online misogyny.
Event details
When: 5.30pm, Wednesday 28 June
Where: Foyer of the ABC building, South Bank
Register on Humanitix
Last month
Last month’s meetup saw a panel discussion on how journalists should treat digital platforms. The panel was made up of April Chan (ABC News), Arjun Srinivas (QUT DMRC), Anna Levy (ABC RN) and Liam Clarkson (7News).
April and Liam showed a contrast in how big media organisations have come to vertical video platforms like TikTok. April talked about how the ABC is using TikTok to reach different audiences and how important it is to adequately resource a national organisation’s expansion to a new platform. For Liam at 7News the move to TikTok was more about building a consistent brand focused on the TV state news bulletin.
Anna explained the challenges of taking the wealth of bizarre and fascinating feature stories that start life as audio on RN onto video and visual platforms.
Arjun shared insights into the role of recommendation engines in driving views (80% of YouTube news consumption is from homepage recommendations) and the complexities of platform’s measurement of news organisations expertise and trustworthiness.
Everyone on the panel agreed that judging success on digital platforms has to go beyond engagement statistics. What I enjoyed most was hearing a discussion of different approaches that suit different organisational motives and settings.
Sorry for the late email! I hope we see you for Lucinda’s excellent talk this week.