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Stories of teen sexting scandals, cyberbullying, and image-based sexual abuse have become commonplace fixtures of the digital age, with many adults struggling to identify ways to monitor young people's digital engagement. In When Rape Goes Viral, Anna Gjika argues that rather than focusing on surveillance, we should examine such incidents for what they tell us about youth peer cultures and the gender norms and sexual ethics governing their interactions. Drawing from interviews with teens and high-profile cases of mediated juvenile sexual assault, Gjika exposes the deeply unequal and heteronormative power dynamics informing teens' intimate relationships and digital practices, and she critically interrogates the role of technological logics, digital cultures, and broader social values in sanctioning abuse. This book also explores the consequences of social media and digital evidence for young victim-survivors and perpetrators of sexual assault, detailing the paradoxical role of technology for social and legal responses to gender violence.

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""When Rape Goes Viral offers incredibly important insights for scholars and practitioners alike. . . .This book is a valuable empirical intervention to guide our collective work in updating our theoretical foundations."" * Gender & Society * ""When Rape Goes Viral is a compelling book that should provoke thoughtful and contentious conversations among sociologists, criminologists, educators, advocates and criminal legal system actors. . . .It should serve as an intellectual launch pad for scholars to fruitfully engage with further exploration of image-based violence and gender."" * Critical Criminology * ""This scholarly work is a call to action for policymakers, educators, and legal professionals to rethink and reshape their approaches to better address the complexities of sexual violence in a digitally connected world."" * Theory in Action *

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Anna Gjika is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

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