Entertainment journalists—who cover video games, TV, movies, etc.—also face serious digital safety risks in the form of ongoing harassment, despite the fact that the majority of earlier research on journalists and digital safety focused on political journalists. Due to need, entertainment writers have created coping mechanisms for this abuse. Nevertheless, little is known about the effects of harassment and how effective these stategies are. In order to learn about the experiences of nine entertainment journalists with online hatred and harassment as well as their coping mechanisms, we conducted interviews with them for this study. Instead than relying on technological fixes or platform affordances, these journalists view harassment as a challenging and unavoidable aspect of their work. These results imply that in order to lessen the personal stress of dealing with harassment, far more assistance is required.https://www.usenix.org/system/files/soups2024-warford.pdfShare this:FacebookXLike this:Like Loading... Post navigation Exposure to hate in online and traditional media: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of this exposure on individuals and communities (Campbell Systematic Reviews) Study finds three quarters of UK academics have experienced online hate over published research (Committee for Academic Freedom)