Revenge pornography and manhood acts: a discourse analysis of perpetrators’ accounts.

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Hall, Matthew and Hearn, Jeff 2017. Revenge pornography and manhood acts: a discourse analysis of perpetrators’ accounts. Journal of Gender Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2017.1417117
AuthorsHall, Matthew and Hearn, Jeff
Abstract

Revenge pornography (hereafter, revenge porn) is the online, sometimes offline, non-consensual distribution, or sharing, of explicit images of someone else by ex-partners, partners, others, or hackers seeking revenge or entertainment – also referred to as non-consensual pornography. The vast majority of revenge porn is committed by men on women ex-partners. In this paper we discursively analyze men’s electronic texts accompanying their posting of explicit images on arguably the most popular revenge porn specific website MyEx.com. Situating our analysis as a contemporary form of online gendered violence and abuse, we show the complex ways in which manhood acts are invoked by men to account for their practices. The impacts on victims/survivors and possible interventions are also discussed.

KeywordsDiscourse analysis; Gender studies; Masculinity; Pornography; Revenge pornography; Social Media; Technology; Violence
Year2017
JournalJournal of Gender Studies
PublisherTaylor & Francis
ISSN09589236
14653869
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2017.1417117
Web address (URL)http://hdl.handle.net/10545/622049
hdl:10545/622049
Publication dates26 Dec 2017
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ContributorsUniversity of Derby, Ulster Univeristy, School of Health and Social Care, University of Derby, Derby, UK and Department of Management and Organisation, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
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