Cybercrimeology

Scientists under attack: The Impact of Internet-Facilitated Harassment of Researchers

Episode Summary

The Internet-Facilitated Harassment of Researchers shouldn't be a problem, but it is. Dr Periwinkle Doerfler joins us to discuss this issue, the experience of it, its impact on minority research and researchers, the institutions involved with it and what we can do to reduce its harms. Vanessa Henri joins us to answer my silly questions about the names of law firms and whether or not it is better for a cyberlawyer to get their start at a big law firm?

Episode Notes

About our Guests:

Dr. Periwinkle Doerfler

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=beizXWkAAAAJ&hl=en

Vanessa Henri

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessahenri

 

Papers or resources mentioned in this episode:

Doerfler, P., Forte, A., De Cristofaro, E., Stringhini, G., Blackburn, J., & McCoy, D. (2021). " I'm a Professor, which isn't usually a dangerous job": Internet-facilitated Harassment and Its Impact on Researchers. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW2), 1-32. 

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.11145.pdf

 

Other:

Burke, Katie L. ( 2017, Sep) Harassment in Science, American Scientist, from:

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/harassment-in-science

 

Nogrady, Bianca (2021, 13 Oct) ‘I hope you die’: how the COVID pandemic unleashed attacks on scientists, Retreived from Nature.com:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02741-x

 

O'Grady, Cathleen (2022, 24 Mar) In the Line of Fire:Scientists have been harassed for years. But a Science survey shows the pandemic has made things far worse for some

https://www.science.org/content/article/overwhelmed-hate-covid-19-scientists-face-avalanche-abuse-survey-shows

 

Advice for researchers experiencing harassment by the Science Media Centre

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Advice-for-Researchers-Experiencing-Harrasment-2019.pdf