The digitization of harassment: Women journalists’ experiences with online harassment in the Philippines

College

College of Liberal Arts

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Journalism Practice

Volume

17

Issue

6

First Page

1198

Last Page

1213

Publication Date

2023

Abstract

Through interviews with female journalists in the Philippines, we document and examine their experiences with online harassment. Three main themes stand out. First, we find that online harassment against journalists follows a systematic process that starts from the top, followed through by a network of social media personalities and an army of trolls, and then completed by ordinary social media users. Second, cases of harassment impact journalists across multiple levels: individually, interpersonally, and professionally. Finally, the participants referred to different ways of coping with what they experienced and identified three sources of support: their peers, their organizations, and the public. Harassment against journalists have always been gendered, with female journalists finding themselves at the receiving end more often than do their male counterparts. In this study, we find that online harassment mirrors this pattern.

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Disciplines

Journalism Studies | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Keywords

Women journalists—Philippines—Social conditions; Harassment—Philippines

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