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Cost of trolling: Faruqi: has spent thousands of dollars in therapy & made the decision to give up his Twitter, where he had thousands of followers. Gorman: trolling costs $3.7 billion just in time off work & medical costs for survivors. Not including security and other costs
Question from floor: What do panelists think of Egg Boy? Gorman: doesn't celebrate his actions. Trolls are sadists. They want to cause hurt. Can't solve violence with violence. Faruqi: Egg Boy said it best- he's overtaken media interest in the victims. This isn't helpful
Question from the floor: ideal online framework for behaviour/ education Gorman: the same rules that apply in everyday life should apply to online behaviour. Your free speech ends when you use hate speech
Khalik: trolls are angry that she is proud of her Palestinian refugee background. Why should she hide this in order to do her job and be safe?
Faruqi: sexist views, anti-Muslim views online aren't easily solved because they mirror society. We need better legislation to deal with online abuse, but this is just the symptom. Better education is only part of the answer. We need broader social change to deal with racism
*I read Khalik's comment about insufficient support from work- provided psychologist as related to race and/or religion. This is conjecture, but informed by research & experience Workplace wellbeing programs are staffed by White people from Christian or atheist backgrounds...
Ask most #WOC who've tried to access workplace counselling services: White psychologists don't handle racism well. This is actually where the term microaggression originates: the damage White therapists do to #POC in not managing own racism & inexperiencehttps://othersociologist.com/2017/07/15/where-are-you-from-racial-microaggressions/ …
To summarise, an excellent panel. The point that "trolling" & online abuse are poorly defined was especially important. Panellists inadvertently demonstrated this at times when describing behaviours of social protest as "positive trolling" or right wing campaigns as "activism"
We already have well defined terms distinguishing *prosocial moral disobedience* (protest / activism/ civil rights movements seeking positive change) from trolling & hate. The former puts individuals & actions in social context. (E.g. https://othersociologist.com/2013/12/08/nelson-mandela-moral-disobedience/ …)
Many workplaces do not protect their employees from online abuse or do so unevenly. Interesting that Faruqi, a Pakistan-Australian Muslim man, felt the ABC did a good job protecting him, whereas Khalik, a Palestinian-Aus Muslim woman, did not feel same. They had the same employer
Gender and race and other structural factors mean different workers need different or multiple forms of support against online abuse. Online success benefits organisations Here's how academic & research orgs can protect public scholars & prevent abuse:https://othersociologist.com/sociology-public-harassment-prevention-policies/ …
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