In this episode we delve into the world of online misogyny and the resilience around constant online abuse.
Alex Maher is a doctoral researcher at Loughborough University studying feminism and misogyny on TikTok, in no small part as a result of her own experiences as a creator on the app.
After downloading TikTok as a fact-finding experiment to aid her marketing career, her feminist skits and political hot-takes saw her rise to popularity - and notoriety – with anti-feminists revealing the dark underbelly of an app seen as light entertainment for most.
Her research seeks to expose the potentially radicalising and harmful influence of such people operating on the app, in order to better support women using social media to challenge inequality.
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