
Dan Morrison (@danielrmorrison.bsky.social) speaks with Dr. Anna Gjika, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Gjika is author of When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age, which just won the 2024 Distinguished Book Award from the Sex and Gender Section of the ASA. The book was published in 2024 by the University of California Press. An expert in criminology, gender-based violence, youth, and technology, the book focuses on teenagers’ use of social media to represent their lives, and in some cases, sexual abuse and assault.