Media Representation CritiqueArticles

A UN Women-commissioned 2026 study examines online violence against women human-rights defenders, activists and journalists, including AI-enabled abuse, offline harm and self-censorship.

MISA’s UNESCO-supported regional study records media workers’ experiences and observations of technology-facilitated gender-based violence, with a clear account of its sample limits.

An interview with Anna Bogutskaya prompts a closer distinction between identification, approval, and the marketing of female rebellion as an empowering personality.

Research from Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines maps how anti-feminist narratives circulate online, showing that digital misogyny is organized through culture, platform incentives, and political identity rather than isolated bad behavior.

UNESCO and ICFJ combine survey, interview and social-media evidence to show how online violence silences women journalists and threatens the public’s right to know.

This article critiques the expectations of 'perfection' and 'likability' in contemporary feminism, calling for recognition of the complexity and contradictions within feminism, and embracing those 'difficult women' who are nonconformist, hard to categorize, but drive change.

Anna Bogutskaya’s BFI programming note becomes a starting point for examining female agency, curatorial framing, and the difference between a good woman and a compelling character.

Amnesty’s Troll Patrol turned crowdsourced Twitter labels into evidence of racialized abuse against women in public life - and offers a case study in the limits of samples, categories and automated inference.