Abstract

Many survivors of sexual violence share their experiences with someone. As social media becomes an increasingly common platform for disclosing and responding to sexual victimization, it is vital to consider how existing research examining in-person disclosure of sexual victimization – and the social reactions of support providers – may or may not generalize to the experience of disclosing sexual victimization in online spaces. Following a public health approach, this review and commentary brings together emerging, mid-career, and established scholars in sexual assault disclosure and social reactions to disclosure with the goal of critically examining “what we know” and “what we don’t know” about sexual assault disclosure and social reactions to disclosure that occur in an online forum (i.e., blog post, Twitter, Facebook, or other social media site). Drawing upon “what we don’t know” about the ways in which sexual assault disclosure occurs in online contexts, we generate suggestions for research, as well as strategies for understanding how best to create safer and more supportive experiences for survivors of sexual victimization who choose to disclose their experiences online.

摘要

许多性暴力幸存者与某人分享他们的经历。随着社交媒体成为披露和应对性受害的越来越普遍的平台，至关重要的是要考虑现有的研究检查性受害的面对面披露以及支持提供者的社会反应可能会或可能不会推广到在网络空间披露性受害。遵循公共卫生方法，这篇评论和评论汇集了性侵犯披露和社会对披露的反应方面的新兴、处于职业生涯中期和成熟的学者，目的是批判性地审查“我们知道什么”和“我们不知道什么”关于在线论坛（即博客文章、Twitter、Facebook、或其他社交媒体网站）。利用“我们不知道的”关于性侵犯披露在网络环境中发生的方式，我们提出研究建议，以及了解如何最好地为性受害幸存者创造更安全、更有支持性的体验的策略。选择在网上公开他们的经历。