Feminist Book Club: When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age
summary
Mixed qualitative study of three cases (Stubenville, Audrey Pat, Daisy Coleman), a content analysis of 146 mainstream news articles, and interviews with 35 teenagers (18 women, 17 men, ages 16–18) shows teens record and share assaults as a performance of heteromasculinity for peer validation; digital traces help prosecutors but overwhelm police, retraumatize survivors, and shift burden of proof. Recommends comprehensive sex education, legal reform, safer platform design and restorative responses rather than sole criminalization.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:48Author and reviewers
- 5:01Book overview
- 6:27Steubenville case study
- 8:54Teens recording assaults
- 10:00Technological determinism
- 12:31Research methods
- 14:18Youth motivations
- 17:08Digital sharing ethics
- 18:33Digital evidence challenges
- 21:00Policy recommendations
- 22:50Global youth violence
- 24:12Child protection balance
- 27:50Reviewers' feedback
- 31:03Tech-facilitated abuse impacts
- 35:50Sex workers' perspectives
- 41:28Normalization of digital violence
- 45:04Holistic approaches
- 51:37Education and systemic change
- 57:06Consent and feminist debates
- 1:00:16Criminal justice limits
- 1:03:27Anti-gender rhetoric
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