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The unbreakables : a novel
\"It's Sophie Bloom's forty-second birthday, and she's ready for a night of celebration with Gabe, her long-time, devoted husband, her two besties, and their spouses. Dinner is served with a side of delicious gossip, including which North Grove residents were caught with their pants down after a secret online dating site for committed couples was hacked. Thirty-two million cheaters worldwide have been exposed ... including Sophie's 'perfect' husband. To add insult to injury, she learns Gabe is the top cheater in their town. Humiliated and directionless, Sophie flees to France to meet up with her teenage daughter who is studying abroad. After a brief visit to Paris, Sophie heads out to the artist enclave of Saint-Paul-de-Vence. There, Sophie acknowledges her own desires--not her husband's, not her daughter's--and rediscovers, with painful honesty and humor, her essence as she reawakens her sensuality and ambitions as a sculptor\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Just Like Us
In Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame, Caitlin E. Lawson examines the rise of celebrity feminism, its intersections with digital culture, and its complicated relationships with race, sexuality, capitalism, and misogyny. Through in-depth analyses of debates across social media and news platforms, Lawson maps the processes by which celebrity culture, digital platforms, and feminism transform one another. As she analyzes celebrity-centered stories ranging from \"The Fappening\" and the digital attack on actress Leslie Jones to stars' activism in response to #MeToo, Lawson demonstrates how celebrity culture functions as a hypervisible space in which networked publics confront white feminism, assert the value of productive anger in feminist politics, and seek remedies for women's vulnerabilities in digital spaces and beyond. Just Like Us asserts that, together, celebrity culture and digital platforms form a crucial discursive arena where postfeminist logics are unsettled, opening up more public, collective modes of holding individuals and groups accountable for their actions.
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Crash override : how Gamergate (nearly) destroyed my life, and how we can win the fight against online hate
Quinn \"is a video game developer whose ex-boyfriend published a crazed blog post cobbled together from private information, half-truths, and outright fictions, along with a rallying cry to the online hordes to go after her. They answered in the form of a so-called movement known as #gamergate--they hacked her accounts; stole nude photos of her; harassed her family, friends, and colleagues; and threatened to rape and murder her. But instead of shrinking into silence as the online mobs wanted her to, she raised her voice and spoke out against this vicious online culture and for making the Internet a safer place for everyone\"--Amazon.com.
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The pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) consciousness of black college women and the perceived hesitancy of public health institutions to curtail HIV in black women
Background
Consistent use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), a biomedical intervention for HIV seronegative persons, has been shown to significantly decrease HIV acquisition. Black women are a viable population segment to consider for PrEP use as their HIV incidence is overwhelmingly higher than all other women groups.
Methods
We developed and piloted a cultural- and age- appropriate PrEP education intervention to determine Black college women’s: 1) perceptions of and receptivity to PrEP use; and 2) preferences for PrEP information delivery.
Results
We recruited
N
= 43 Black college women. Most of our sample were sophomore and Juniors of whom identified as heterosexual (83%) and single (67%). Over 50% of young women had never been HIV tested and only 28% had been tested in the last 6 months; however, 100% of the women believed their HIV status was negative. Prior to participating in the study, most Black college women (67%) had not heard about PrEP and were unsure or apprehensive (72%) to initiate PrEP. The Black college women indicated that our educational intervention was extremely helpful (67%) for understanding and learning about PrEP. Post participating in our PrEP education module, regardless of delivery modality, participants reported being likely (62.55–70%) to initiate PrEP in the future.
Conclusions
Results indicate that Black college women would strongly consider PrEP when provided with basic knowledge, regardless of delivery modality. Participants also showed greater appreciation for in-person delivery and found it to be significantly more helpful and of greater quality for learning about PrEP; comprehension or perceived usefulness of PrEP-related content was relatively the same between groups. PrEP content delivery -- via in-person or online methods – is contingent on learning style and presentation.
Trial registration
This study has been registered under the ISRCTN Registry as of July 6, 2020. The trial registration number is
ISRCTN14792715
. This study was retrospectively registered.
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Evolving female entrepreneurship in emerging economies: clarifying the linkages between institutional forces and online venture performance
PurposeThis study investigates the rise of online female entrepreneurship in emerging economies from institutional perspectives and the resource-based view (RBV). The research also explores how choosing online entrepreneurship affects the performance of female entrepreneurs.Design/methodology/approachData were collected through surveys, and quantitative data analysis was used to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe results indicate that women entrepreneurs perceive online platforms as rare, valuable, imperfectly imitable and non-substitutable resources. Furthermore, the impact of informal institutions on choosing online platforms is supported, but the influence of formal institutions remains unclear. Additionally, the study finds that opting for online platforms helps entrepreneurs achieve financial and stakeholder relationship goals but does not significantly contribute to strategic and learning goals.Originality/valueOur research highlights how transitioning from a physical to an online business platform can become a valuable resource for marginalized, deprived and struggling entrepreneurs, particularly women, operating within challenging institutional contexts, often prevalent in emerging economies.
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Fake missed connections : divorce, online dating, and other failures : a memoir
\"'Your wife is having an affair with my husband. It has caused some trouble in my marriage and I thought you should know.' One phone call in December 2005 begins the compelling, unpredictable story of Fake Missed Connections. A child of divorce with an already fragile sense of trust, Lauer unravels at the betrayal, begins divorce proceedings, and moves back to Brooklyn where he spends too much time alone, fixated on the idea that a murderer from 1898 might be haunting his apartment. Eventually, as he starts to peruse online dating profiles, he becomes obsessed with 'missed connections' precisely because they provide what online dating doesn't: a story. He begins writing phony missed connections to post on Craigslist and, though he feels a stab of guilt when he posts them, he is hopelessly intrigued by the responses he receives. Real documents illuminate Brett's dating adventures, from love (and hate) letters and instant message conversations to Brett's online dating profile and wedding announcement. Fake Missed Connections is an unconventional yet deeply moving look at the modern search for love, the ways in which we fail to communicate, and the quest for a genuine moment of connection\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Online Violence as a Digital Condition: A New Cultural Habit?
Online interactions today are increasingly hostile spaces designed to hyper stimulate, driven by instantaneous methods of gratification, all while sharing polarising opinions in snapshot attention spans. That the spaces occupying so much of our time and energy have become polarised, extreme, and hostile creates a vicious circle of consumption, intolerance, and violence. Ultimately, the ease with which digital spaces foster violence, aggression, and intolerance has created – what this paper argues – is a new digital condition of online violence as a cultural habit. The first part of this paper discusses the condition of online and digital violence, against the backdrop of an increasingly digital society. This discussion emphasises that the more interactions that take place online, the greater the chances that there is a direct experience of online violence, even if this is directed generally at online audiences, or witnessed as a bystander. In exploring this, the wider argument advanced here is that these experiences have become normalised across a wide intersection of digital and cultural interactions and are not limited to one form of media, nor one form of consumption. The second part of this essay undertakes a broader discussion of the types of online violence that presents as a new digital condition. Through such an exploration, this paper outlines that the new cultural norm is one of violence, and in online spaces, of online violence. What becomes particularly evident in exploring the concept of generalized violence – introduced in this essay – through online cultural forms of engagement is the proliferation of online violence across online platforms, social media networks, and digital interactions. And yet, despite this, the turn towards legally capturing and addressing online harms, particularly within the EU and the UK, does not, conceptualise this digital condition of violence in meaningful ways. This omission is one that has so far failed to generate appropriate regulation. In sum, this paper argues that law and society stands at a crossroads, faced with the onslaught of online violence as a new digital condition, but remains directionless as to how to challenge it. This paper argues that online violence, including online violence against women, is our new digital condition – and it has become an embedded norm to such an extent that it is a new cultural habit, and we are all conditioned to see it, hear it, experience it, and perpetrate it.
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KAZNENOPRAVNA ZAŠTITA ŽENA OD RODNO UTEMELJENOG ONLINE-NASILJA - IZAZOVI IMPLEMENTACIJE DIREKTIVE (EU) 2024/1385
Sredinom 2021. godine u Kazneni je zakon uneseno novo kazneno djelo zlouporabe snimke spolno eksplicitnog sadržaja (čl. 144.a). Time je hrvatski zakonodavac meðu prvima prepoznao važnost fenomena tzv. osvetničke pornografije. Da postoji potreba za kaznenopravnom reakcijom na različite oblike rodno utemeljenog online-nasilja, uklju- čujući i dijeljenje intimnog ili manipuliranog materijala bez pristanka, nedavno se jasno iskristaliziralo i na razini Europske unije donošenjem Direktive od 14. svibnja 2024. o suzbijanju nasilja nad ženama i nasilja u obitelji. Prvi dio rada općenito će analizirati pojam rodno utemeljenog online-nasilja nad ženama te identificirati različite pravne pristupe inkriminiranju i progonu tih oblika kriminaliteta. Središnji dio rada bavi se evaluacijom bića kaznenog djela zlouporabe snimke spolno eksplicitnog sadržaja kao tipičnog pojavnog oblika online-nasilja nad ženama. Od uvoðenja kaznenog djela iz čl. 144.a KZ-a do danas prošle su četiri godine, a u tom je razdoblju doneseno 40 pravomoćnih presuda. Kako je do sada izostala temeljita analiza tog djela i njegove primjene u praksi, cilj je ovog rada na temelju dostupne sudske prakse prikazati fenomenološke osobitosti djela, upozoriti na neke nedoumice u tumačenju njegovih pojedinih obilježja te dati prijedlog normativnih izmjena, osobito u svjetlu nove Direktive, koju su države dužne transponirati do 14. lipnja 2027. godine. U posljednjem dijelu rada autori će se općenito osvrnuti na odredbe spomenute Direktive koje se odnose na online-nasilje nad ženama kako bi razmotrili u kojoj je mjeri hrvatsko materijalno kazneno zakonodavstvo već usklaðeno s njom te postoji li potreba za daljnjim normativnim izmjenama.
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