Technology-facilitated gender-based violence: Categorizing and understanding sexual abuse against women ridesharing drivers

IF 1.9 3区 社会学 Q2 WOMENS STUDIES
Jocelyn Elise Crowley
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This analysis explores technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) through the voices and experiences of women ridesharing drivers in the United States. Dominant companies in the ridesharing industry have developed a taxonomy of sexual abuse for the safety reports that they issue to the public; however, these documents are limited in terms of their quantitative nature and the number/types of incidents that they publish. To understand the full nature of this problem, this project recruited participants using social media advertising to complete an online, anonymous survey related to their sexually violent experiences. Using qualitative content analysis methods with a deductive approach to study the 55 surveys of mostly women ridesharing drivers (53 women and 2 non-binary individuals) who described 150 cases of sexual abuse from primarily male passengers, this research placed their experiences in the pre-established taxonomy categories created by the major ridesharing companies, but also allowed other types of categories to emerge organically from the data. Results show instances of sexual misconduct most commonly, with the most prevalent categories from the taxonomy being explicit comments; soliciting sexual acts; and asking personal questions. With respect to sexual assault, the most common categories from the taxonomy were non-consensual touching of a non-sexual body part; attempted touching of a non-sexual body part; and non-consensual touching of a sexual body part. This analysis concludes by noting the limitations of these public safety reports and the importance of broadening the conceptualization of TFGBV to include the experiences of women drivers.
技术促进的基于性别的暴力:对女性拼车司机的性虐待进行分类和理解
本分析通过美国女性拼车司机的声音和经历探讨了技术促进的基于性别的暴力(TFGBV)。在拼车行业占主导地位的公司已经为它们向公众发布的安全报告制定了一套性虐待分类;然而,这些文件在数量性质和所公布事件的数量/类型方面是有限的。为了全面了解这个问题的本质,这个项目招募了使用社交媒体广告的参与者来完成一项与他们的性暴力经历相关的在线匿名调查。本研究采用定性内容分析方法和演绎方法,研究了55项调查,其中大部分是女性拼车司机(53名女性和2名非二元个体),他们描述了150起主要来自男性乘客的性虐待案件,将他们的经历置于主要拼车公司创建的预先建立的分类类别中,但也允许从数据中有机地出现其他类型的类别。结果显示,不当性行为是最常见的,分类中最普遍的类别是露骨的评论;引诱性行为的;问一些私人问题。就性侵犯而言,分类法中最常见的类别是未经同意触摸非性身体部位;试图触摸非性的身体部位;以及在未经同意的情况下触摸身体性感部位。最后,本分析指出了这些公共安全报告的局限性,以及扩大对性别暴力的概念化,将女性司机的经历纳入其中的重要性。
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CiteScore
2.50
自引率
7.10%
发文量
63
审稿时长
79 days
期刊介绍: Women"s Studies International Forum (formerly Women"s Studies International Quarterly, established in 1978) is a bimonthly journal to aid the distribution and exchange of feminist research in the multidisciplinary, international area of women"s studies and in feminist research in other disciplines. The policy of the journal is to establish a feminist forum for discussion and debate. The journal seeks to critique and reconceptualize existing knowledge, to examine and re-evaluate the manner in which knowledge is produced and distributed, and to assess the implications this has for women"s lives.
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