Digital Suffragists
Digital Suffragists Why women's voices are outnumbered online and what we can do about it, by a New York Times comment moderator.If you've read the comments posted by readers of online news sites,…
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Digital Suffragists
Why women's voices are outnumbered online and what we can do about it, by a New York Times comment moderator.If you've read the comments posted by readers of online news sites, you may have noticed the absence of women's voices. When women do comment, they are often attacked or dismissed more than men are. Men are by far the most prolific commenters on politics and public affairs.
In Digital Suffragists, Marie Tessier--a veteran journalist and a New York Times comment moderator for more than a decade--investigates why women's voices are outnumbered online and what we can do about it.The suffragists of the early twentieth century were In fact, the comment forums on news sites replicate conditions of the offline and social media world, where women are routinely interrupted, threatened, demeaned, and called wrong, unruly, disgusting, and out of place.