When do women making videos on YouTube not face hostile comments? I'm not saying this to dismiss the difficulties women scientists face, but to show that YouTube is inherently hostile to women....
When do women making videos on YouTube not face hostile comments? I'm not saying this to dismiss the difficulties women scientists face, but to show that YouTube is inherently hostile to women. I'm honestly surprised that women allow comments on their videos at all.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0963662518786654?journalCode=pusa My question is why as it is the subject matter that is important. By that standard, no one should have paid attention...
These are some of the 23,005 YouTube comments that form the basis of a new paper by Ms. Amarasekara and Will Grant, a lecturer at Australian National University, published last week in the journal Public Understanding of Science. They found a tough environment for women who create YouTube videos centered on science, drawing both more comments per view than men and also a higher proportion of critical comments as well as remarks about their appearances.
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My question is why as it is the subject matter that is important. By that standard, no one should have paid attention to anything Stephen Hawking said. Could this be considered harassment and if so, what if anything should be done about it?
When do women making videos on YouTube not face hostile comments? I'm not saying this to dismiss the difficulties women scientists face, but to show that YouTube is inherently hostile to women. I'm honestly surprised that women allow comments on their videos at all.
I certainly wouldn't.
Anyone making anything online faces hostile comments.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0963662518786654?journalCode=pusa
My question is why as it is the subject matter that is important. By that standard, no one should have paid attention to anything Stephen Hawking said. Could this be considered harassment and if so, what if anything should be done about it?
edited to include questions