Prelims

Editors

Jane Bailey is a Full Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (Common Law) in Canada. Jane's research focuses on technology's intersections with law and equality, with a particular current focus on technology-facilitated violence and its impacts on young people from marginalized communities. She has published and spoken locally, nationally, and internationally on a wide variety of technology-related topics, including “cyberbullying,” online hate, gender-based technology-facilitated violence, and the discriminatory effects of corporate data collection practices and how those practices set young people up for conflict and harassment. She currently co-leads The eQuality Project, a seven-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research initiative funded by a Cdn$2.5 million Partnership Grant. The Project involves an interdisciplinary group of researchers from Canada, the US, Hong Kong, and Finland, as well as over 20 community, governmental, educational, and youth organizations. It focuses on young people's experiences with privacy and equality in digitally networked environments. Jane leads the Project stream on technology-facilitated violence. She is a member of the New College of the Royal Society of Canada and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund Committee on Gender-Based Technology-Facilitated Violence, was awarded the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law by the Canadian Bar Association, acted as lead counsel for an intervener before the Supreme Court of Canada on its first case dealing with the offense of voyeurism, and has been a visiting professor at RMIT, Hong Kong University, and the Universidad de Puerto Rico.

Dr Asher Flynn is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Monash University, a Group of Eight institution in Victoria, Australia. Asher's research utilizes a socio-legal framework to understand, critique, and transform legal policy and practice, with a particular focus on gendered and technology-facilitated violence and abuse. Asher has published widely and is lead researcher on several projects in the fields of AI-facilitated abuse, deepfakes, gendered violence, and image-based sexual abuse. Asher is the recipient of a number of prestigious national and international research fellowships including at the University of Durham, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Manchester, and the University of Warwick. She has advised the United Nations, Facebook, and the Australian Office of the eSafety Commissioner on policy and prevention of technology-facilitated violence and abuse and has received several awards for her research.

Nicola Henry is an Associate Professor and Vice-Chancellor's Principal Research Fellow in the Social and Global Studies Center at RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia). Nicola's research focuses on the prevalence, nature, and impacts of sexual violence, including legal and non-legal responses in Australian and international contexts. The goal of her work is to contribute to social, legal, and political change, deepen knowledge, and provide support to victim–survivors of violence. She has conducted numerous projects on image-based sexual abuse and technology-facilitated abuse which have led to significant legal and policy change in Australia. She is a member of the Office of the eSafety Commissioner's Expert Advisory Committee. She was Expert Advisor on the development of the eSafety Office's world-first image-based abuse portal as well as the award-winning eSafety Women: Online Training for Frontline Workers. Nicola has published widely in the sexual violence field and has been interviewed many times for television, radio, print, and online media.

Contributors

Moira Aikenhead is a PhD Candidate at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her dissertation research explores the Canadian criminal response to technology-facilitated intimate partner violence through a feminist lens, and she has previously published research on Canada's nonconsensual distribution and voyeurism laws.

Sukaina Al-Nasrawi is a sustainable development expert at the United Nations ESCWA. She has a notable record of publications in the areas of technology for gender equality, digital divide, and smart sustainable cities, among others. Sukaina received research and professional awards including the United Nations Gold Award for Advancing Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. She holds a PhD in technology for development.

Briony E. Anderson is a graduate researcher in Criminology at the University of Melbourne, recently commencing her PhD candidature in 2020. Briony's thesis engages with privacy and anonymity in online space by considering the harm experience of doxxing.

Dr Kim Barker is Senior Lecturer in Law at the Open University (UK). Dr Barker's research focuses on internet regulation and intellectual property law. Her research focuses on the online regulation of platforms, with specific expertise in online abuses, online violence, and the legal responsibilities of internet actors.

Tabrina M. Bratton is a PhD student in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She received her Master's Degree in Criminal Justice. Tabrina's research interest includes public attitudes toward sexual and gender minority populations, policy processes, and technology-facilitated victimization.

Ella Broadbent is a Criminology Honors graduate, who has completed a thesis researching image-based sexual abuse. Her research interests include the role social media plays in facilitating violence and harm and how mixed methods and quantitative research design can enrich criminological scholarship.

Elena Cama is a Scientia PhD Candidate at UNSW Law in Sydney, Australia. She is a mixed methods researcher with a background in criminology, social science, and public health. Her PhD research focuses on digital communications technologies and the perpetration of sexual harms in online dating.

Professor Bronwyn Carlson is an Aboriginal scholar and Head of the Department of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. She is the recipient of three consecutive Australia Research Council grants that focus on Indigenous cultural, social, and political engagements on social media. Her current project explores Indigenous people's experiences of online conflict.

Anne Cheung is a Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong whose research encompasses the areas of law and technology, freedom of expression, and privacy. Her most recent project concerns China's social credit system, and she is the co-editor of Privacy and Legal Issues in Cloud Computing (2015).

Sarai Chisala-Tempelhoff LLB (Hons) LLM is a Malawian human rights lawyer and legal researcher. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Gender and Justice Unit, an initiative that hones in on legal empowerment as a tool to bring about gender equality and social justice in Malawi.

Ben Colliver is a Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University. His research interests include hate crime, queer studies, gender, and sexuality. He has recently published in the area of online hate speech. He is a member of the steering group of the British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network.

Dr Elizabeth Coombs was Privacy Commissioner of New South Wales, Australia from 2011–2017 and held CEO positions and statutory appointments in Government. Based in Malta, Elizabeth works for the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy, chairing the Taskforce “Privacy and Personality” and acting as a member of Health-Related Data; Corporations' Use of Personal Data, and Big Data–Open Data Taskforces.

Walter S. DeKeseredy is Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. He has published 26 books and over 100 refereed journal articles on topics such as woman abuse, rural criminology, and critical criminological theory.

Christopher Dietzel is a PhD candidate at McGill University. His doctoral research examines sexual consent related to dating app use and sexual violence against LGBTQ+ people.

Suzie Dunn is a PhD candidate and a Part-Time Professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. Her research centers on the intersections of gender, equality, technology, and the law, with a specific focus the nonconsensual distribution of intimate images, deepfakes, and impersonation in digital spaces.

Dr Ryan Frazer is a settler scholar and cultural geographer. He recently completed his PhD, which drew on the work of Deleuze and Guattari to rethink geographies of care, volunteering, and refugee resettlement. He is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Indigenous Studies, exploring Indigenous people's experiences of online conflict.

Chandell Gosse (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in Media Studies in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University in London, Ontario. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach and sits most broadly at the intersection of feminism, digital culture, and anti-violence work. Find her on Twitter @ChandellEnid

Dr Elly Hanson is a Clinical Psychologist who focuses on the prevention of sexual abuse and reducing its impact. She has both academic and practice-based strands to her work, undertaking research, consultation, training and assessments, and working primarily with educators, law enforcement, social workers, survivors, and charities. Elly's recent research and writing has focused on online forces and dynamics conducive to sexual abuse.

Bridget Harris is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow based at Queensland University of Technology. Bridget researches on violence against women and spatiality; gender-based violence; domestic and family violence; and technology-facilitated violence, advocacy, and justice. Her edited collection (with Woodlock) examines Domestic Violence and Technology: Experiences, Perpetration, and Responses (Routledge).

Pam Hrick (JD, LLM) is a lawyer at Stockwoods LLP in Toronto, Canada. She maintains a broad practice that includes civil litigation, administrative law, criminal law, and constitution litigation. She regularly advises and represents survivors of sexual violence.

Heather K. Hudson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Central Arkansas. She received her PhD in Health Education from Southern Illinois University. Her research interests include human sexuality and technology, sexual communication and social media, and women's health issues.

Nchelem Kokomma Ichegbo is a Program Officer at Viable Knowledge Masters in Nigeria where she provides technical support to multiple projects. She is experienced in conducting literature reviews and collecting quantitative and qualitative data. She has interests in adapting technological innovations to public health and education.

Michael Gboyega Ilesanmi is a Senior Social Development Specialist and Social Safeguards Coordinator for the World Bank Nigeria Country Office, Abuja. Currently, he is co-leading the World Bank's operation on Women's Economic Empowerment in Nigeria and leads the Bank's GBV risk mitigation work in Nigeria.

Dr Emma A. Jane is an Associate Professor at UNSW Sydney. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental (PESTLE) causes and effects of emerging technology. Dr Jane's 10th book—Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) History—was published by Sage in 2017.

Dr Olga Jurasz is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Open University (UK). Dr Jurasz's research focuses on international law, human rights, and legal responses to violence against women (including online violence), specializing in feminist perspectives on law in these areas.

Dr Samantha Keene is a Lecturer at Criminology at the Institute of Criminology at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. Dr Keene's research focuses on gendered experiences of crime, mainstream pornography and its effects, rough sex, and sexual violence.

Raine Liliefeldt is YWCA Canada's Director of Member Services and Development. She has over 16 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, was responsible for the federally-funded initiative Project Shift: Creating a Safer Digital World for Young Women, and oversees Lead Now, a national young women's leadership program.

Gisella Lopes Gomes Pinto Ferreira is a qualified lawyer in Brasil and has a degree in Law from UFMG. She holds a MPhil in Justice from Queensland University of Technology. Her thesis research explores the prevention of gendered violence in youth cohorts in Brasil.

Gabrielle L. Lory is a second-year PhD student at West Virginia University, specializing in criminology. Her research focuses on rural crime, violence against women, and restorative justice. She currently works as a Graduate Assistant in the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and serves as co-editor of The Rural Criminologist newsletter.

Yee Man Louie is a PhD candidate at the Technology, Communication and Policy Lab, Digital Ethnography Research Center at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Her current research focuses on the use of digital communication technologies, domestic violence, and the lived experiences of Chinese women in Melbourne.

Robert D. Lytle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He received his PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska – Omaha. Robert's research interests include criminal justice policy, corrections, and public attitudes about criminal justice.

Olusesan A. Makinde is the managing partner at Viable Knowledge Masters (VKM), a research and consulting company registered in Nigeria. He has researched the intersection between gender-based violence and social media in Nigeria.

Alison J. Marganski, PhD is Associate Professor and Director of Criminology at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying violence (perpetration as well as victimization), including technologically facilitated violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and mass murder, along with their respective solutions.

Olga Marques, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Justice at Ontario Tech University. Her teaching and research focuses on the construction, policing, and regulation of sexed, gendered, and raced bodies. She is also engaged in research on the impacts of incarceration, as well as Indigenous experiences of criminalization and victimization.

Lisa A. Melander, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Kansas State University. Her primary research interests lie in the intersection of family and crime and include issues such as intimate partner violence, cyber aggression, and women's incarceration.

Neil Melhuish is Director of Policy and Research at Netsafe, New Zealand. He has worked on online safety issues since 2004.

Madeleine Novich, PhD is a Criminal Justice Professor at Manhattan College, USA. Her research focuses on the intersection of policing, procedural justice, and criminalized communities of color.

Emmanuel Olamijuwon is a Lecturer in the Department of Statistics and Demography at the University of Eswatini, Eswatini. He is also a PhD candidate in demography and population studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His current research examines opportunities for advancing sexual and reproductive health of young African adults in the digital age.

Dr Cheluchi Onyemelukwe is a lawyer, academic, and international consultant with expertise in gender law and policy, gender-based violence, international human rights, and health law and policy. She is Associate Professor of Law at Babcock University School of Law and Security Studies.

Dr Edgar Pacheco is a Research Analyst at Netsafe, New Zealand. His work focuses on online risks and harm as well as disability and higher education.

Eva PenzeyMoog is a user experience designer working to build out the field of “safety design.” She works to make technology safe through centering the safety of survivors of domestic violence. Eva created the “Framework for Inclusive Safety” to help technologists create safe tech. Readers can learn more at www.inclusivesafety.com.

Dr Michael Salter is the Scientia Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of New South Wales, where he specializes in the study of complex trauma, gendered violence, and technology. He is an expert advisor to national and international online child protection agencies.

Sara Shayan is a lawyer practicing in Toronto, Ontario. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in English Literature from the University of British Columbia and a JD from the University of Ottawa. The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the view of her employer.

Dr Danielle C. Slakoff is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at California State University, Sacramento. Her research interests include media criminology and domestic violence. Danielle's work on women's issues within the criminal justice system can be found in Feminist Criminology, Sociology Compass, and Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law and Society.

Julia Slupska is a doctoral student at the Center for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity and the Oxford Internet Institute. She researches how cybersecurity concepts and practices can address technologically mediated abuse, as well as how feminist theories and methodology—such as action research and the ethics of care—can improve cybersecurity.

Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe LLB (Hons) LLM is a Scottish lawyer and Lecturer in Law at Glasgow Caledonian University. Inspired by the rebellious lawyering movement founded by Gerald López, she is the co-founder of RebLaw Scotland, an organization which explores how law can be used as a tool for social justice.

Danielle M. Stoneberg is a PhD student in Sociology at West Virginia University. Her publications include articles in International Criminal Justice Review and Crime Prevention and Community Safety on topics such as drug use and policing in rural US communities and violence against women.

Leonie Maria Tanczer is Lecturer in International Security and Emerging Technologies at University College London's (UCL) Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP). Her research focuses on questions related to internet security, and she is specifically interested in the intersection points of technology, security, and gender.

Kristen Thomasen is an Assistant Professor of Law, Robotics, and Society at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law, and a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. Her research focuses on the legal, social, and ethical implications of robotic and autonomous machines, with particular focus on privacy and public spaces.

Chrissy Thompson holds a PhD in Criminology. Her doctoral research examined upskirting in Australia, and she has published on topics including media archeology, creepshots, viral justice, countersurveillance, and upskirting. Chrissy's research interests include understanding how crime intersects with technology, gender, and disability.

Elina Vaahensalo is a doctoral candidate in the field of digital culture at the University of Turku. Elina’s chapter is based on her doctoral thesis that focuses on othering online discourse, polarization in internet cultures, and methods that can be applied to the study of online discussion cultures.

Dr Laura Vitis' research focuses on how technology is used to facilitate gendered, sexual, and domestic violence within the Global-South. Her work also examines the regulation of and resistance to technologically facilitated violence and youth sexting. In 2017, she co-edited a collection entitled Gender, Technology, and Violence for Routledge.

Ari Ezra Waldman is the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at New York Law School. He earned a PhD in Sociology at Columbia University, a JD at Harvard Law School, and an AB, magna cum laude, at Harvard College.

Dr Alice Witt is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Digital Media Research Center, Faculty of Law at the Queensland University of Technology. Her research investigates the exercise of governing power in the digital age, focusing on the intersections of regulation, technology, and gender.

Mark A. Wood is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. Most of Mark's research falls within the digital criminology sphere and examines intersections between technology, crime, and criminal justice. His first monograph, Antisocial Media, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.

Delanie Woodlock is a community researcher and adjunct lecturer at University of New England, Armidale, Australia and associate with the Research Center on Violence at West Virginia University. Her research interests include violence against women, domestic violence, and the medicalization of women's health.

Alyssa Zduniak is an English, Political Science, and Philosophy major at Manhattan College, USA. She previously presented research at the Undergraduate Woman's Philosophy Conference and the International Symposium on Lasallian Research. Alyssa will be graduating in the spring of 2020 and plans to pursue a PhD in English.