Angela Myers
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As part of a larger research project on the rhetoric of sexual violence prevention in online university courses, the researcher conducted rhetorical analyses of two prevention courses from the United States and New Zealand. This study analyzed the rhetorical strategies used in two courses with attention to five subcategories: content genres, ways the content addresses the audience, messaging strategies, levels of prevention, and sentence-level choices. From the analyses, the researcher recommends rhetorical considerations for prevention courses. While the New Zealand course had more effective language choices, the US course had a better overall narrative structure.
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Rewriting sexual violence prevention: a comparative rhetorical analysis of online prevention courses in the United States and New Zealand
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The role of gender and sexism in the moral disengagement mechanisms of technology-facilitated sexual violence
AbstractTechnology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) encompasses various harmful online behaviors, such as online gender-based hate speech, online gender-based violence, digital sexual harassment, image-based sexual abuse, and online sexual coercion. ...
Highlights- Moral disengagement varies depending on the type of TFSV.
- Situations in which the perpetrator is a woman and the victim is a man receive more justification than their counterparts.
- Men justify TFSV to a greater extent than do ...
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