The Struggle of Women Content Creators Against Abuse

This research is an examination into the ways online abuse functions in certain online spaces.By analyzing text-based online abuse against women who are content creators, this researchmaps how aspects of violence against women offline extends online. This research examinesthree different explorations into how online abuse against women functions. Chapter twoconsiders what online abuse against women looks like on Twitter as a case study. This chaptercontends that online abuse can be understood as an unintentional use of Twitter's design.Chapter three focuses specifically on the textual descriptions of sexual violence women who arejournalists receive online. Chapter four analyzes Gamergate, an online movement thatspecifically looks to organize online abuse towards women. Chapter five concludes bymeditating on the need to look at a bigger picture that includes cultural shifts that dismantle thenormalization of violence against women both on and offline.