Victoria has announced new teaching resources to tackle the influence of “manosphere” figures among students, but we still don’t have a clear picture of sexism and harassment in our schools.
A United Nations report details the violence that women and girls in sport face around the world – including Australia.
Dead Boy Detectives is the latest in a long line of queer shows on streaming platforms to be cancelled. Now, queer fans online are fighting back.
Australian researchers urge prioritising evidence-based solutions and incorporating Indigenous experiences to tackle rising gender-based violence cases.
A domestic violence disclosure scheme is a resource people can check to find out if a particular person has a documented history of domestic violence, but how well does it work?
One in seven Australians say they’ve engaged in tech-based workplace harassment – and it’s often designed to offend, humiliate and distress the victim.
Sexual deepfake abuse silences women, causing lasting harm, and laws to protect them are inconsistent. A global approach is vital if society truly wants to address the problem.
New research shows that for people living with long COVID and intimate partner violence, each was exacerbated by the other and services were inadequate.
Given its remit and membership, the inquiry is unlikely to break new ground – and has met fierce opposition even before starting its work.
It appears to have become more prevalent, visible, and possibly also more politicised in post-pandemic times, as general trust in governments and mainstream media declines.
We need to move beyond whether cancel culture is good or bad, and understand in more nuanced terms what it means, especially given the political weaponising of it.
Intervention by bystanders can reduce the occurrence and impacts of image-based abuse, but there are many barriers to calling it out.
New research reveals that more than half of all Australians have experienced technology-facilitated abuse.
There are connections and continuities between different forms of violence in different spaces, be it online or offline, virtual or physical.
How we get the balance right between using social media to hold people to account versus the risk of invading people’s privacy depends on the context, of course, and is ultimately about power.
Does Collingwood, and indeed the AFL, have a problem with women, or is it a case of “boys just being boys”?
Loneliness must be regarded as a public health priority. Find out some of the surprising ways we can tackle it in Monash University’s podcast, ‘What Happens Next?’.
On a new episode of Monash University's 'What Happens Next?' podcast, Dr Susan Carland and expert guests discuss retaliation, the difference between call-outs and cancel culture, and how to be an ethical digital activist.
When internet users take justice into their own hands, problems arise. On a new episode of Monash University's 'What Happens Next?' podcast, Dr Susan Carland and experts guests discuss the dark side of digital vigilantism, and answer the question: Does it really work?
There are ingrained barriers to how far dating app Bumble can go towards emancipating women from the old-fashioned courtship power dynamics it claims to be shifting.
Will there be new opportunities for criminals to use 5G technologies and mobile applications – with higher speeds and more reliability – to conduct crime?
Biometrics technology offers to cut the Gordian knot of passwords, usernames, PIN and QR codes, as well as passports and vaccine cards – but at what cost?
As technology advances, the use of spyware in crime investigation is almost unavoidable, but it raises questions about the threat to privacy, freedom of speech, and civil society.
“Stranger danger” now lurks less in the streets, and more in adult dating apps, gaming sites and consoles, and social media.
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