“It ain’t a compliment”: Feminist data visualisation and digital street harassment advocacy

Online Harassment and Digital Stalking

Cyberstalking is generally considered to be harassment that originates online; however it is also recognised that other forms of pre-existing stalking can transfer into online environments. Cellular phones are now owned by the vast majority of adults (91% in 2010/2011) in the United Kingdom. It is believed that this number will approach, and probably reach, 95% within the near future. The World...

Visualisation of allocated and unallocated data blocks in digital forensics

The ability to visualise blocks within file systems as allocated or unallocated is part of many existing forensic tools, for example the ‘Disk’ view in EnCase. However, analysis of the file system or partitioning of a disk is only one level of analysis that can occur as part of a digital investigation. Analysis of the structure within individual files can also be useful, however, there are limi...

A Feminist Reframing of Bullying and Harassment: Transforming Schools through Critical Pedagogy

This article aims to reformulate existing understandings of bullying behaviours in secondary schools, by applying a critical feminist lens to patterns of verbal and psychological harassment among students. Through this understanding, educators may better understand the causes of (hetero)sexist, transphobic, and homophobic behaviours. With a more complex awareness of these power relations, teach...

Semiotics in Digital Visualisation

Digital Humanities Are a Two-Way Street.

n The History Manifesto, Jo Guldi and David Armitage seek a panacea for what they call short-termism—the shrinking chronological focus of historical studies that leads to the overproduction of micro-histories—in “new” longue durée histories that will rely on big data and on digital humanities.24 We agree that big data and digital humanities offer new and valuable ways of making history, includi...