Detecting, preventing and responding to image-based sexual abuse: The role of digital platforms and services

Detecting, preventing and responding to image-based sexual abuse: The role of digital platforms and services

This ARC Future Fellowship project examines the efficacy of digital tools and interventions to detect, prevent and respond to image-based sexual abuse (the non-consensual taking, creation or distribution of intimate images, including threats to share intimate images).

Description

Through a digital ethnography, victim and stakeholder interviews, online surveys, and an AI chatbot, the project generates evidence and theory on both image-based abuse and internet governance and provides practical recommendations for digital platforms and services in their responses to image-based abuse in Australia and elsewhere that will directly benefit victims.

The project critically engages in debates about the future of artificial intelligence, the limits of sovereign laws, the unprecedented power of technology companies, and the role of these platforms and services in regulating harmful content online.

SERC researchers

  • Nicola Henry
  • Gemma Beard

Project dates

2021 - 2024

Funding body

ARC Future Fellowship

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.

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