Sharing Of Public Harassment Experiences on Social Media in Bangladesh

Authors

Fayika Farhat Nova, Marquette UniversityFollow
Pratyasha Saha, University of Dhaka
Md. Shafiur Raihan Shafi, Uttara University
Shion Guha, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2019

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Source Publication

CSCW '19 Companion: Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Source ISSN

9781450366922

Abstract

This study explores the notions of sharing public harassment experiences on social media and the associated construction of online social support and justice, based on an anonymous survey (n=340) and semi-structured interviews (n=10) in Bangladesh. Our initial findings show the wider prevalence of public harassment against women in Bangladesh and indicate the existence of implicit societal biases and socio-technical infrastructural weaknesses that manipulate the sharing experiences of harassment on social media as well as limit the expected social support and justice online. These findings advocate for better design policies on safer social media participation, especially for women and call for more attention on fixing the existing technical infrastructures that address justice online.

Comments

Published as part of the proceedings of the conference Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2019: 324-329. DOI.

Recommended Citation

Nova, Fayika Farhat; Saha, Pratyasha; Shafi, Md. Shafiur Raihan; and Guha, Shion, "Sharing Of Public Harassment Experiences on Social Media in Bangladesh" (2019). Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications. 26.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/comp_fac/26