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标题：Estonian Male Journalists’ Experiences with Abusive Online Communication
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作者：Armas Riives ; Maria Murumaa-Mengel ; Signe Ivask 等
期刊名称：Sociální studia
印刷版ISSN：1214-813X
电子版ISSN：1803-6104
出版年度：2021
期号：2
页码：31-47
DOI：10.5817/SOC2021-2-31
语种：English
出版社：Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies
摘要：Several studies have established that female journalists experience (sexual) harassment and online abuse considerably more than their male colleagues. Understandably, this has resulted in a gap in research – male journalists’ experiences with abusive online communication have not yet been thoroughly studied. This paper seeks to understand how abusive communication is contextualised and defined by male journalists in the context of hegemonic masculinity, and to explore which coping strategies are employed to overcome such experiences. From qualitative in-depth interviews with male journalists (n=15), we found that participants considered different forms of abusive online communication from readers/sources a normalised practice, “feedback” that one must just ignore or overcome. Experiences are interpreted predominantly in the frame of hegemonic (complicit) masculinity, but the results also indicate that shifts in these rigid norms are emerging and can be embraced when acknowledged and supported by surrounding structures.
关键词：male journalists;abusive online communication;masculinity;coping strategies;journalism