RT Article
T1 ‘This is not a case of gender inequality. This is a case of injustice’: perceptions of online resistance to camera sexual voyeurism
JF Crime, media, culture
VO 18
IS 4
SP 491
OP 508
A1 Vitis, Laura
A2 Naegler, Laura
A2 Salehin, Ahmad
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1836332386
AB In November 2018, Monica Baey, a student at the National University of Singapore (NUS) was recorded by a fellow student while showering in university accommodation. After the perpetrator was issued a formal warning and a one-semester suspension, Baey posted about the case on social media and named the perpetrator. This generated public support, news coverage and institutional reform. In this article, we explore a range of responses to the Monica Baey case through a thematic analysis of publicly available comments about the case on a popular message board forum, Hardwarezone. By contextualising our analysis within the political setting of Singapore, this research demonstrates that public responses to testimony-based resistance require close analysis, as extant tools for citizens to engage in ‘naming and shaming’, were relevant to understanding these responses to this mode of resistance and reflected what Ibrahim (2018) calls ‘everyday authoritarianism’.
K1 Camera sexual voyeurism
K1 everyday authoritarianism
K1 image-based abuse
K1 Narrative
K1 online resistance
K1 Resistance
K1 Vigilantism
DO 10.1177/17416590211027337