8. Uluslararası Yükseköğretim Çalışmaları Konferansı 8th International Higher Education Studies Conference (IHEC), Ankara, Türkiye, 17 - 19 Ekim 2025, ss.1-2, (Özet Bildiri)
In today’s academic
landscape, scholars are increasingly dependent on digital platforms to sustain
their careers, enhance visibility, and meet institutional expectations for
public engagement. While the digitalization of academic labor offers
considerable opportunities for collaboration and knowledge dissemination, it
also introduces new forms of precarity, surveillance, and vulnerability. Recent
studies, including Higher Education (2020), reveal that digital harassment has
become a normalized practice targeting those who challenge dominant structures
such as whiteness, male privilege, or middle-class academic norms. These
practices expose the gendered, racialized, and class-based dimensions of online
academic abuse, calling attention to its structural nature.