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On the Engender: Gender Matters Online

In our final episode examining gender and public space on On the Engender, our panel discusses the internet as a gendered space and why gender matters online with host Alys Mumford.

Here she shares some personal reflections on women's experiences of online abuse and the relationship between gender and the internet as a public space:

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine posted on facebook that she had been sexually harassed on the way home from work. As you might expect, we all rallied round to leave sympathetic messages and check she was ok. One of the comments on the original post used the phrase ‘men are trash etc’. My friend who posted this comment was bemused to receive, seconds later, a notification telling her that it had been deleted as it contained hate speech.

Posted on August 27 2018 at 11:34

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