Dr. Kaitlynn Mendes
Kaitlynn Mendes (elle) est la Chaire de recherche canadienne sur les inégalités et le genre à l'Université Western. Elle a plus de dix ans d'expérience dans la recherche sur l'utilisation des technologies numériques par les jeunes dans leur vie sexuelle et a dirigé trois projets financés dans ce domaine qui ont contribué aux connaissances académiques au Royaume-Uni et au Canada. Elle a également mobilisé ces connaissances par le biais de ressources éducatives accessibles qui ont aidé plus de 35 000 jeunes, 1 400 enseignants, 200 écoles et 800 membres du public à mieux identifier les formes de violence sexuelle et de sexisme facilitées par la technologie et à mieux y répondre.
Dans les médias
Both, M. (2023, May 24). Teens face so much online sexual harassment, term “cyberbullying” doesn’t capture true scope, expert says. CBC News.
Rivers, H. (2023, May 7). Are pandemic lockdowns, isolation fuelling increase in school violence? The London Free Press.
New legislation making those who engage in non-consensual sharing of intimate images and extortion could land someone on the National Sex Offender Registry. (2023, April 28). [Audio]. CHED Edmonton.
Professor Kaitlynn Mendes, sociologist at the University of Western Ontario, explains to Moore In The Morning how the pandemic may have made Canadian youth meaner and less empathetic. (2023, April 20). [Audio]. NEWSTALK1010.
Baig, F. (2023, April 19). Pandemic may have made Canadian youth less empathetic, meaner: Sociologists.Vancouver Sun.
Winsa, P. (2023, April 20). Kids can be mean, but did lockdown make them meaner? Toronto Star.
Baig, F. (2023, April 19). Sociologist says pandemic may have made Canadian youth less empathetic, meaner. Durham Radio News.
Luymes, G. (2023, March 29). Family of man killed outside Vancouver Starbucks pleads with public not to share video of knife attack. Vancouver Sun.
The Intimate Image Protection Act, B.C.’s new legislation which protects individuals whose intimate images were shared without their consent. (2023, March 8). [Audio]. CBC Radio Programs.
Pope. (2023, January 19). Here’s why sociologists believe crime is rising among GTHA teens. CHCH.
Travaux antérieurs
Horeck, T., Mendes, K., & Ringrose, J. (2021). Digital Defence in the Classroom: Developing Feminist School Guidance on Online Sexual Harassment for Under 18s. In The Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Violence and Technology.
Mendes, K., Horeck, T. & Ringrose, J. (2022) Sexual violence in contemporary educational contexts, Gender and Education. Gender and Education 34(2):129-133
Ringrose, J., Mendes, K., (2019) Digitised Narratives of Rape: Disclosing Sexual Violence Through Pain Memes. In Rape Narratives in Motion (pp. 171-197). Springer: London, UK. Green open access
Mendes, K., Keller, J., & Ringrose, J. (2019). Digitized narratives of sexual violence: Making sexual violence felt and known through digital disclosures. New Media & Society, 21(6), 1290–1310
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