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- Title
Unraveling the Digital Threat: Exploring the Impact of Online Harassment on South Korean Journalists' Professional Roles.
- Authors
Yeon Lee, Na; Park, Ahran
- Abstract
This research examines whether and to what extent journalists are harassed online and the effects of online harassment on their professional roles. The study classifies online harassment against journalists into five types: insults, threats, privacy intrusion, sexual assault, and cyber-hacking. The findings reveal a positive correlation between online harassment and various adverse outcomes for journalists, including increased self-censorship, reduced public engagement, and heightened skepticism toward journalism. With regard to a specific type of online harassment, journalists' gender plays a role as a moderator: The relationship between insults and self-censorship, disengagement with the public, and skepticism toward journalism was found to be stronger for women journalists than men journalists.
- Subjects
HARASSMENT; OCCUPATIONAL roles; WOMEN journalists; JOURNALISTS; SEXUAL assault; SELF-censorship
- Publication
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2024, Vol 101, Issue 2, p529
- ISSN
1077-6990
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/10776990231217448