Additional background for accompany the SXSW 2018 proposal “Safer platforms: No tech fix for human behavior”, by Shireen Mitchell, Nicole Sanchez, and Jon Pincus.
- Online Harassment 2017, Pew Research Foundation, has a lot of great data on the frequency of various kinds of harassment.
- Susan Herring et. al.’s Searching for safety online: Managing “trolling” in a feminist forum (from 2002), and the Dealing with hate speech, flaming, and trolls page (from Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2008), illustrate how long so many of these these issues have persisted – and that ways that things have gotten worse over the last decade.