Cybersexism

The personal is still political, and cybersex and cybersexism are often too easily commingled.

Chapter 9 situates these optimistic appraisals of the democratic potential of new media in relation to a darker side of cyberspace—the proliferation of cyberracism, cybersexism, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, and systemic surveillance.

And while social media is a common method used to disseminate these examples of supportive mainstream articles, it is also unfortunately a space which enables abuse, misogyny and harassment, otherwise known as cybersexism or trolling.