Online Harassments and Cyber Mobs

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Online Harassment and Cyber Mobs Online harassment is an issue that has received quite the publicity and media coverage lately. As the Internet and everything that involves it has grown into our everyday life and routines, it has become the most used form of communication. Everyone from toddlers to retirees knows about the Internet and what its basic uses are. Nowadays teens spend most of their time online in comparison to watching TV or reading books. The Internet can do everything, and it is an incredible way for people all over the world to stay in contact and learn about each other. Sadly, with all these features there also comes much trouble. Cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking and identitytheft are just some of the problems that the Internet has caused. This, however, is about how Canadian-American feminist, media critic and blogger Anita Sarkeeshian became the victim of extreme online harassment specifically based on her gender and feminist viewpoints. In her speech “Online Harassment and Cyber Mobs” from 2012, she addresses this situation and starts a discussion about how especially online gaming portrays the female part of our world. Sarkeeshian begins her speech by telling the audience a little bit about herself and explains that she has now run a video web series on YouTube, for four years, about the representations of women in the media. Sarkeeshian is an open feminist, who does not try to hide her opinion or cover anything up. In her speech, her main focus is the video gaming industry, and how is holds, as she says: “… some of the most sexually objectified, stereotyped and downright oppressive portrayals of women in any medium” (page 1, line 13-14). It is because of this that she launched a fundraising campaign on a website, where people could donate money to the project and support the fight for an improved representation of women in the online gaming

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