Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 13 March
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
‘Don’t feed the trolls’ – it’s the conventional wisdom of the internet. But who are the trolls? What motivates them? And, beyond ignoring them, how do we limit the destruction they wreak on people’s lives?
These are the questions Ginger Gorman started asking after she herself became the target of an online hate campaign. In 2013, the investigative journalist received hateful and abusive messages, including a death threat, in response to a story she broadcast on the ABC. This harrowing experience led her to a five-year investigation of the nature and impact of trolling itself, including interviews with psychologists, police, trolling victims and, perhaps most importantly, trolls themselves. She learned about highly organised global trolling syndicates, the economic cost of internet hate campaigns, and the failure of the legal system to hold trolls accountable.
In conversation with Jamila Rizvi, Gorman will discuss anonymity, misogyny and the psychology of cyber-sabotage.
This event will be Auslan interpreted.
Metropolis will be our bookseller for this event.
Featuring
Ginger Gorman
Ginger Gorman is an award-winning social justice journalist based in Canberra, Australia.
In 2013, Ginger and her family suffered the effects of online hate first-hand, and it was this experience that set Ginger on her professional journey into the world of trolls. In 2017, her series of articles on trolling for Fairfax newspapers in Australia went viral, and became some of the most read Australian stories of the year. She is now in demand as an expert on online hate, and has written and spoken extensively about trolling and social media self-defence in Australian and global contexts.
Jamila Rizvi
Jamila Rizvi is an experienced broadcaster, public speaker and social policy expert, as well as the bestselling author of Not Just Lucky and The Motherhood. As Deputy Managing Director of Future Women, Jamila ...