Billeddelingspanik i kølvandet på Umbrella-sagen

En affektteoretisk analyse af diskurser i nyhedsartikler og på Børn hjælper Børn

Abstract

We examine discourses on image-based sexual abuse following the Umbrella case, involving over 1,000 young Danes charged with distributing child pornography. Our material includes 2018–2021 coverage in Politiken and Berlingske and posts on Børn Hjælper Børn, BørneTelefonen's peer-advice platform. Drawing on Ahmed (2014), we analyze how discourses mobilize fear, guilt, and shame. We introduce image-sharing panic to describe how young people's sexualized image sharing is moralized and problematized in the news. The distinction between consensual and non-consensual sharing is blurred, portraying image sharing as risky and enabling victim blaming. On BHB, warnings against sharing sexualized images dominate, alongside victim blaming and a gendered double standard in which girls are shamed for their sexuality while boys are rewarded. We argue that the crisis framing in the news and BHB's advice on girls' responsibility and abstinence are linked within an affective economy where fear, guilt, and shame constrain young people's agency.