Matthew Hall
Professor, and Chair of the Department of Psychology. Since 2016, his research has focused on digital gender-sexual violations (DGSV) examining perpetrator motivations, (dis)continuities between online/offline violations, implications for organizations.
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existence of gaps and weaknesses in contemporary legislations addressing Al threats to women’s rights. Still we commend the efforts of the above leading jurisdictions that have brought developments in this important subject. Finally, we propose a way to identify the legally responsible entity in order to avoid the socially undesirable behavior that comes from deepfake pornography.
existence of gaps and weaknesses in contemporary legislations addressing Al threats to women’s rights. Still we commend the efforts of the above leading jurisdictions that have brought developments in this important subject. Finally, we propose a way to identify the legally responsible entity in order to avoid the socially undesirable behavior that comes from deepfake pornography.
Appearance for men is becoming an increasingly important feature of modern consumerist and individualistic societies and a key resource for identity construction. Where once a man’s identity was largely drawn from work, sport and family discourses, the exponential growth in consumerism and the media has provided men with a multitude of alternative identity discourses; ones which they are tasked with, and accountable for, designing and maintaining. The payoff for such identity and body work is social and psychological well-being. That is, as many marketers promote ‘look good, feel good’.
Yet the search for the ‘ideal’ male body – muscular with low body fat - can lead some men to develop psychological problems such as body dysmorphophobia, eating disorders, cosmetic surgery procedures and the use of prescription medications. Such practices are associated with many health risks and side effects, which any user is compelled to acknowledge and negotiate in order to rationalise consumption. Drawing on discourse analysis this paper highlights how men account for - and justify – their body modification practices in online forums.
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sharing of explicit images or videos of someone else by ex-partners, partners, others, or hackers seeking revenge, entertainment, or peer group status. The vast majority of these are committed by men against women. Given the many adverse impacts on physical and psychological health and
well-being it has on its victim-survivors, exploring this form of online gender-sexual abuse and violation becomes an important endeavor. Situating the discussion within debates on gender and sexuality, the entry discusses the increasing use of new technologies for online gender-sexual abuse and violation, highlighting the motivations of those perpetrating IBSA, the negative physical and psychological impacts of IBSA on victim-survivors, and what has been, and could be, done to combat image-based sexual abuses and other misuses of new technologies, notably through legal, policy, and practice interventions within and between nations.
Online sexual abuse and violation concern matters of sexuality and violence, through the medium of new information and communication technologies (ICTs). In this chapter, we approach this nexus through attending to the phenomenon of what has come to be called ‘revenge pornography’, which, as we shall shortly discuss, is better conceptualised in rather different terms. Indeed, one of the more recent consequences of the relationship between pornography and the development of Internet and mobile technologies has been the borderless spread of various forms of online harassment, humiliation, abuse and violation, along with invasion of privacy and loss of reputation.
Here we examine online sexual abuse and violation, and specifically so-called ‘revenge porn’, in relation to its transnational production, consumption, interventions to counter it, and its very existence as a new online-offline configuration. We consider the transnational dispersions of sexualities, sexual abuse and sexual violations, and how global and transnational approaches can inform analysis, theorizing, and politics related to these phenomena. In turn, critical attention to ‘revenge porn’ as a theoretical and political problematic can assist rethinking transnational processes more broadly.
Book Description:
In this book, the authors present current research in the study of advertising methods and perceptions and their impact on consumer behavior. Topics discussed include the use of tourism distribution channels for advertising a religious "imagined community" in Arcadia, Greece; investing in culture and intercultural relations for advertising and sustainable development of the contemporary European city with the framework of international city branding; a social psychological perspective of marketing strategies appealing to the consumers' uniqueness; social media advertising and its important role in representing and influencing consumer choices; cultural characteristics and how they moderate consumer response to positive and negative feeling advertisements; and consumers and brand loyalty. (Imprint: Nova)
Table of Contents:
Preface
The Use of Tourism Distribution Channels for Advertising a Religious ‘Imagined Community’: The Case of Branding a Prefecture at a Regional Level, Arcadia, Greece
(Androniki Kavoura, Vicky Katsoni, Department of Marketing, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece)
Investing in Culture and Intercultural Relations for Advertising and Sustainable Development of the Contemporary European City within the Framework of International City Branding and Marketing: The Case Study of the Intercultural Festival of Trieste, Italy
(Androniki Kavoura, Evgenia Bitsani, Department of Marketing, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece, and others)
Explaining the Effectiveness of Appeals to Uniqueness: A Social Psychological Perspective
(Vincenzo Iacoviello, Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Discursive Analytical Methods for Examining Customers’ Online Talk
(Matthew Hall, John Neugerbauer, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK, and others)
How Cultural Characteristics Moderate Consumer Responses to Positive and Negative Feeling Advertisements
(Sarah De Meulenaer, Nathalie Dens, Patrick De Pelsmacker, University of Antwerp, Belgium)
My Dear Brands, When you Transgress, Should I Forgive You: Relationship Types between Consumers and Brands
(Fang Wan, Amitava Chattopadhyay, Peyman Assadi, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada) "
The negative impact it has on victims is significant and profound in terms of physical and psychological health and well-being, as with many other forms of gender and sexual violence and abuse. Victims report a host of negative effects: feelings of humiliation, shame, embarrassment and reputation damage with intimate partners, family, friends, work colleagues and, in public; sexual shame, sexual problems and body image issues with intimate partners; education and employment disruptions; becoming paranoid and hyper-vigilant, and concerned for their personal safety. For example, some have reported being stalked, harassed and threatened with gang rape because of their personal information was also made public. Some victims have even taken their own lives (Citron & Franks, 2014).
Using discourse and thematic analytical approaches the authors examine digital, survey and interview data on gendered, sexual violences, abuses, and violations. The words of the perpetrators and victim-survivors are presented, showing the impact on victim-survivors and the complex ways in which phallocentric power relations and existing hegemonic masculinities are reinforced and invoked by perpetrators to position girls and women as gendered and sexualised commodities to be traded, admired, violated or abused for the needs of individual men or groups of men often geographically dispersed.
By exploring their research in a broader social and political context, the authors are able to evaluate and suggest changes to existing legislative frameworks, education and awareness-raising, victim support, perpetrator re-education programmes, along with wider political considerations. This is a unique resource for students, academics, researchers, and professionals interested in Internet and mobile technology, gender violences, abuses, and violations, and related issues.
Using a discourse analytical approach the authors examine revenge pornography through the words of the perpetrators themselves, and study the complex ways in which they invoke, and deploy, gender and sexuality-based discourses to blame the victim. They explore strategies to curb the phenomenon of revenge porn, and by placing their research in a broader social and political context, the authors are able to examine the effectiveness of current legislative frameworks, education and awareness raising, victim support, perpetrator re-education programmes, along with wider political considerations.
This enhanced understanding of the perpetrator mind set provides important insights into the use of social media to facilitate gender violence, and holds the promise of more effective interventions in future. This is a unique resource for students, academics, researchers, and professionals interested in revenge pornography and related issues.
With medical sociology and social psychology at its core, this important volume shows the complex reasons behind the misuse of various medications, how these are connected to contemporary body image and appearance concerns, and why the known health risks and possibly harmful side effects do not act as deterrents.