Reporting, Reviewing, and Responding to Harassment on Twitter

May 14, 2015 6:15 PM

Reporting, Reviewing, and Responding to Harassment on Twitter
For three weeks last November, Women, Action, and the Media accepted harassment reports that they escalated to Twitter, collecting data on the experience of harassment and the process of reporting it. Our team of academics have published a comprehensive report on what they found.

Our findings focus on the people reporting and receiving harassment, the kinds of harassment that were reported, Twitter's response to harassment reports, the process of reviewing harassment reports, and challenges for reporting processes.

Our report has been covered by:
- The Huffington Post
- FastCompany
- The Washington Post

Role: Lead author

posted by honest knave (2 comments total)

This project was posted to MetaFilter by Little Dawn on May 15, 2015: Reporting, Reviewing, and Responding to Harassment on Twitter

The above link goes to WAM!s advocacy page, with infographics, etc. The full report can be found here on ArXiv (pdf here):

Matias, J. N., Johnson, A., Boesel, W. E., Keegan, B., Friedman, J., & DeTar, C. (2015). Reporting, Reviewing, and Responding to Harassment on Twitter. Women, Action, and the Media. May 13, 2015.

posted by honest knave at 7:59 PM on May 14, 2015

THIS WAS SO NEAT that I put it in with some stuff about GG and Twitter over on whatisgamergatecurrentlyruining, which I posted on Projects recently. PROJECTS CROSSOVERS

thank you for doing this work.
posted by NoraReed at 1:25 AM on May 16, 2015 [1 favorite]