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Dissertation
Investigating the way we see the upskirt: the social and legal implications of gendered surveillance online
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Drexel University
Aug 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/etd-7733
Abstract
This dissertation examines the concept of gendered surveillance and the ways that gendered language is used to produce and maintain it, through the practice of nonconsensual image capture (NCIC). To do this I employed several qualitative methodologies focusing on the terms upskirt and revenge porn, including qualitative semi-structured interviews, discourse analysis, and feminist discourse analysis. I examined both legal writing and practice through the interview process, and conducted discourse analyses to examine the term upskirt in everyday use forms on the social media platform of Instagram, and the discourse of comments on two celebrity gossip blogs. The Instagram data was collected through the capture of the hashtag #upskirt, and the discourse analysis was collected in the form of comments from two moderated commenting communities from each communities' respective posts on a celebrity upskirt image. The anonymous interview participants include 11 practicing and/or academic attorneys from across the United States and Europe. I suggest that both the term and the metaphoric use of upskirt in language represents a reduction of personhood, that positions women and girls into a particular way of being seen or watched, that also creates heteronormative discursive limitations, in both the legal system and everyday life.
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- Title
- Investigating the way we see the upskirt
- Creators
- Melinda Sebastian - DU
- Contributors
- Wesley Shumar (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts and Sciences; Communication, Culture, and Media; Communication; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 7733; 991014632564104721