How to Be a Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back

by Nina Jankowicz

Overview

"Blisteringly witty." Kirkus
"An essential guide." Publisher's Weekly
"Timely." Booklist

When Nina Jankowicz's first book on online disinformation was profiled in The New Yorker, she expected attention but not an avalanche of abuse and harassment, predominantly from men, online.

All women in politics, journalism and academia now face untold levels of harassment and abuse in online spaces. Together with the world's leading extremism researchers, Jankowicz wrote one of the definitive reports on this troubling phenomenon.

Drawing on rigorous research into the treatment of Kamala Harris - the first woman vice-president - and other political and public figures, Nina also uses her own experiences to provide a step-by-step plan for dealing with harassment, abuse, doxing and disinformation in online spaces.

The result is a must-read for researchers, journalists and all women with a profile in the online space.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350267589
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	04/21/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	784,639
File size:	415 KB

About the Author

Nina Jankowicz is a Washington DC-based writer and analyst. She is currently a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Kennan Institute. Previously she served as a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellow, a role in which she provided strategic guidance to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. Her writing has been published by The New York Times. The Washington Post, Buzzfeed News, Foreign policy, and others. Her first book, How to Lose the Information War was published in 2020.
Nina Jankowicz is a Washington DC-based writer and analyst with a focus on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. She is currently a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Kennan Institute. Previously, she served as a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellow, a role in which she provided strategic communications guidance to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. Her writing has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, Foreign Policy and others.
Nina received her MA in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies from Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where she was a Title VIII and FLAS scholarship recipient, and her BA in Russian and Political Science from Bryn Mawr College, where she graduated magna cum laude. She has lived and worked in Russia and Ukraine, and speaks fluent Russian and proficient Polish and Ukrainian. Nina was a 2017 Foreign Policy Interrupted Fellow.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter One - Security: Outfitting Yourself Online
Chapter Two - Adversity: Enduring Trolls
Chapter Three - Policy: Making it Work for You
Chapter Four - Community: Cultivating a Circle of Solidarity
Chapter Five - Tenacity: Speaking Up and Fighting Back
Further Reading
Resources