Teenagers' use of social media to represent their lives, and in some cases, sexual abuse and assault.
sexual assault
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We discuss "cancel culture", demands that cultural products are removed from public distribution and circulation when their creators are enmeshed in moral transgressions.
Joe, Leslie, and Corey Fields (Georgetown University) discuss R. Kelly and reports that journal submissions are way up. Also, an interview with Jay Livingston of Montclair State about reports of a loneliness epidemic
Joe, Leslie, Gabriel, and Jooyoung Lee (University of Toronto) discuss a proposed sex doll brothel in Toronto, humanity’s continuing struggle against machines, and both sex and alienation in modernity.
Joe interviews Nicole Bedera, a graduate student at Michigan who recently posted a viral tweet reviewing recent research on teen sexual assault: I’m a sociologist who studies adolescent sexual violence. In this thread, I offer the basic facts everyone should know about sexual assault to make sense of the #Kavanaugh […]
This week, The Annex brings you three prerecorded segments. First, the gang talk about Eliza Brown and Mary Patrick’s forthcoming piece in the American Sociological Review on egg freezing. Then, Joe interviews Nicole Bedera, a graduate student at Michigan who recently posted a viral tweet reviewing recent research on teen sexual assault. Finally, Joe interviews […]
We discuss our initial reactions to sexual harassment and rape allegations that eventually developed into the #metoo movement.
Gabriel Rossman describes how the case of Harvey Weinstein follows what we know about the development of scandals
