Mediated Gendered Invisibility: Exploring Educated Young Women’s Experiences of Online Sexual Harassment and Coping Strategies in Turkey

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2024-1

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Kiriş, Aysima

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Although several studies have focused on cyberbullying, online hate speech and cybercrime, no research prior to this study has examined sexual harassment in the context of power relations, gender visibility and social inequalities. Research suggests that young women are more likely to experience online harassment based on their gender, mostly in Instagram and Twitter in Turkey (TBID, 2021). Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore how young women perceive of and respond to their own sexual harassment experiences on social media in Turkey, and to uncover the effects of women‘s individual characteristics on experiencing sexual harassment in online space. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods are conducted for this study. However, qualitative study is prior to understand educated emerging adult women‘s lived experiences of online sexual harassment and coping strategies, which are revealed by the semi-structured in-depth interviews. Quantitative study provided an exploratory background to examine the effect of women‘s age, sexual orientation, educational status, and relationship status on sexual harassment in online space, using Online Sexual Harassment Scale. Integrated results from both studies are discussed in terms of contributions to literature, in the scope of limitations and further research recommendations.

Subject Keywords

online sexual harassment, youth, gender, coping strategies, feminist standpoint

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/107758

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis