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More Barriers Than Solutions: Women’S Experiences Of Support With Online Abuse, Chandell E. Gosse
More Barriers Than Solutions: Women’S Experiences Of Support With Online Abuse, Chandell E. Gosse
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Women have long fought for recognition and protection from the violence and abuse against them. This fight has only grown more complex with the introduction of digital technology and online abuse. In this thesis, I adopt a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to understand how 15 women experience barriers to support when they are targeted by online abuse and examine their responses to those barriers. Drawing from a range of theoretical frameworks and literature, this thesis contributes to the current understanding of online violence against women and girls. Overall, I found that participants experienced and responded to barriers to support in three …