@article{Mortensen_2020, title={Defying shame: shame-relations in digital sexual assault}, volume={36}, url={https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/article/view/113960}, DOI={10.7146/mediekultur.v36i67.113960}, abstractNote={<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>This article gives voice to Mathilde, Karen and Amalie: Three young women who had intimate images of themselves shared non-consensually online. Their experi- ences help build a framework for categorising digital sexual assault (DSA), as<br>well as giving insight into how shame, in cases of DSA, connects to social media affordances. The empirical data was produced during four creative writing work- shops. The participants described their experiences during these workshops and they collectively developed strategies for defying shame. This article analyses their experiences of shame, their shame-defying strategies, and the role that social media played in forming types of aggressors and assault experiences. I present what I call the onlooker as a digitally augmented aggressor and I show how this aggressor inflicts shame through the look, as described by Sartre. This results in a discussion of imaginary, progressive contra-shaming, which is one of the four coping strategies that showed empowering potential in relation to DSA.</p> </div> </div> </div>}, number={67}, journal={MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research}, author={Mortensen, Signe Uldbjerg}, year={2020}, month={Feb.}, pages={100–120} }