Beyond visibility: Online academic harassment and the politics of socio-technical harm


Pehlivanlı E., Yalçınöz-Uçan B.

8. Uluslararası Yükseköğretim Çalışmaları Konferansı 8th International Higher Education Studies Conference (IHEC), Ankara, Türkiye, 17 - 19 Ekim 2025, ss.1-2, (Özet Bildiri)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Ankara
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-2
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.